Dr Shaun Bloomfield

Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

I graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2001 with a MSci (Honours) Physics with Astrophysics degree, before continuing at Queen’s for my PhD studies in Solar and Stellar Astrophysics. After successfully defending my thesis entitled “Oscillatory Phenomena in Solar and Stellar Atmospheres" in 2005, I accepted a Max Planck Fellow position at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. In 2007 I moved to Trinity College Dublin in Ireland to initially work as a Research Fellow on the PROBA2 space-weather satellite, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). During my 9 years at Trinity, I held an EU Framework Programme 7 Marie Curie Fellowship to study solar flare prediction, was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 2012, joined the Science and Instrument Teams of the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) payload on the upcoming ESA Solar Orbiter satellite mission, and in 2014 won EU Horizon 2020 funding for a space-weather consortium project (FLARECAST) as the Project Scientist. In 2016, I was appointed as a Reader at Northumbria University.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), a Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP), a lifetime Member of the Marie Curie Fellows Association and an Individual Member of both the International Astronomical Union and the European Physical Society.

In addition, I am an elected Board member of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society and co-Chair of the “Space Weather Forecasting” Topical Working Group within ESA’s Space Weather Working Team.

Campus Address

D119, Ellison Building

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Key Publications

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Prediction of solar energetic events impacting space weather conditions, Georgoulis, M., Yardley, S., Guerra, J., Murray, S., Ahmadzadeh, A., Anastasiadis, A., Angryk, R., Aydin, B., Banerjee, D., Barnes, G., Bemporad, A., Benvenuto, F., Bloomfield, D., Bobra, M., Campi, C., Camporeale, E., DeForest, C., Emslie, A., Falconer, D., Feng, L., Gan, W., Green, L., Guastavino, S., Hapgood, M., Kempton, D., Kitiashvili, I., Kontogiannis, I., Korsos, M., Leka, K., Massa, P., Massone, A., Nandy, D., Nindos, A., Papaioannou, A., Park, S., Patsourakos, S., Piana, M., Rawafi, N., Sadykov, V., Toriumi, S., Vourlidas, A., Wang, H., Wang, J., Whitman, K., Yan, Y., Zhukov, A. 24 Feb 2024, In: Advances in Space Research
Space Weather Forecasts of Ground Level Space Weather in the UK: Evaluating Performance and Limitations, Smith, A., Rae, J., Forsyth, C., Coxon, J., Walach, M., Lao, C., Bloomfield, D., Reddy, S., Coughlan, M., Keesee, A., Bentley, S. 12 Nov 2024, In: Space Weather
The SWAP Filter: A Simple Azimuthally Varying Radial Filter for Wide-Field EUV Solar Images, Seaton, D., Berghmans, D., Bloomfield, S., De Groof, A., D’Huys, E., Nicula, B., Rachmeler, L., West, M. 18 Jul 2023, In: Solar Physics
The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star, Matthews, S., Reid, H., Baker, D., Bloomfield, D., Browning, P., Calcines, A., Del Zanna, G., Erdélyi, R., Jeffrey, N., Klein, L., Krucker, S., Kontar, E., Long, D., MacKinnon, A., Mann, G., Mathioudakis, M., Milligan, R., Nakariakov, V., Pesce-Rollins, M., Shih, A., Smith, D., Veronig, A., Vilmer, N. 1 Dec 2022, In: Experimental Astronomy
The flare likelihood and region eruption forecasting (FLARECAST) project: Flare forecasting in the big data & machine learning era, Georgoulis, M., Bloomfield, D., Piana, M., Massone, A., Soldati, M., Gallagher, P., Pariat, E., Vilmer, N., Buchlin, E., Baudin, F., Csillaghy, A., Sathiapal, H., Jackson, D., Alingery, P., Benvenuto, F., Campi, C., Florios, K., Gontikakis, C., Guennou, C., Guerra, J., Kontogiannis, I., Latorre, V., Murray, S., Park, S., Von Stachelski, S., Torbica, A., Vischi, D., Worsfold, M. 22 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
Validation of Global EUV Wave MHD Simulations and Observational Techniques, Downs, C., Warmuth, A., Long, D., Bloomfield, D., Kwon, R., Veronig, A., Vourlidas, A., Vršnak, B. 23 Apr 2021, In: The Astrophysical Journal
2D and 3D Analysis of a Torus-unstable Quiet-Sun Prominence Eruption, Rees-Crockford, T., Bloomfield, D., Scullion, E., Park, S. 30 Jun 2020, In: The Astrophysical Journal
A Comparison of Flare Forecasting Methods. IV. Evaluating Consecutive-Day Forecasting Patterns, Park, S., Leka, K., Kusano, K., Andries, J., Barnes, G., Bingham, S., Bloomfield, S., McCloskey, A., Delouille, V., Falconer, D., Gallagher, P., Georgoulis, M., Kubo, Y., Lee, K., Lee, S., Lobzin, V., Mun, J., Murray, S., Nageem, T., Qahwaji, R., Sharpe, M., Steenburgh, R., Steward, G., Terkildsen, M. 19 Feb 2020, In: The Astrophysical Journal
Ensemble Forecasting of Major Solar Flares: Methods for Combining Models, Guerra, J., Murray, S., Bloomfield, D., Gallagher, P. 21 Aug 2020, In: Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX), Krucker, S., Hurford, G., Grimm, O., Kögl, S., Gröbelbauer, H., Etesi, L., Casadei, D., Csillaghy, A., Benz, A., Arnold, N., Molendini, F., Orleanski, P., Schori, D., Xiao, H., Kuhar, M., Kobler, S., Iseli, L., Dreier, M., Wiehl, H., Kleint, L., Bloomfield, S. 1 Oct 2020, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics

Professional Activity

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Membership of board: International Astronomical Union (IAU) (External organisation) 2021
Editorial work: Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (Journal) 2017
Membership of board: European Solar Physics Division (External organisation) 2014

PGR Supervision

Andre Chicrala Amaral Silva Investigating Magnetic Energy Injection in Solar Active Regions Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 26/10/2021
Stephen Bannister Solar active region magnetic characterisation, evolution, and relation to flares Start Date: 01/10/2022
Paloma Jol A Deep (Learning) Dive into Solar Active Region Evolution and Flare Production Start Date: 25/09/2023

Qualifications

Astrophysics PhD June 30 2005
Astrophysics MSc July 06 2001
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA 2018
Individual Member of the European Physical Society 2012
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society FRAS 2005
Member of the Institute of Physics MInstP 2005

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