Dr Natasha Jeffrey

My research studies solar flares, huge releases of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere. Solar flares provide us with an astrophysical laboratory for understanding processes such as magnetic reconnection and turbulence, and the production and properties of energetic particles. My work uses high energy observations (X-ray, EUV) to study flares and energetic particles at the Sun, and the creation of kinetic models to study particle acceleration and particle and X-ray transport effects in flares. 

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• Constraining Turbulent Solar Flare Acceleration Regions by Connecting Kinetic Modeling and X-Ray Observations, Stores, M., Jeffrey, N., Dickson, E., McLaughlin, J., Kontar, E. 9 Apr 2026, In: Astrophysical Journal
• Exploring the Origin of Solar Energetic Electrons II: Investigating Turbulent Coronal Acceleration, Pallister, R., Jeffrey, N., Stores, M. 10 Apr 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal
• Time-dependent Turbulent Electron Acceleration and Transport in Solar Flares, Schiavo, L., Jeffrey, N., Botha, G., McLaughlin, J. 1 Dec 2025, In: The Astrophysical Journal
• Tracing the heliospheric magnetic field via anisotropic radio-wave scattering, Clarkson, D., Kontar, E., Chrysaphi, N., Emslie, A., Jeffrey, N., Krupar, V., Vecchio, A. 2 Apr 2025, In: Scientific Reports
• A Modelling Investigation for Solar Flare X-ray Stereoscopy with Solar Orbiter/STIX and Earth Orbiting Missions, Jeffrey, N., Krucker, S., Stores, M., Kontar, E., Saint-Hilaire, P., Battaglia, A., Hayes, L., Collier, H., Veronig, A., Su, Y., Tadepalli, S., Xia, F. 1 Apr 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal
• First joint X-ray solar microflare observations with NuSTAR and Solar Orbiter/STIX, Bajnoková, N., Hannah, I., Cooper, K., Krucker, S., Grefenstette, B., Smith, D., Jeffrey, N., Duncan, J. 5 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Advances in 3D solar flare modelling, Druett, M., Jeffrey, N. 1 Oct 2023, In: Astronomy and Geophysics
• An Anisotropic Density Turbulence Model from the Sun to 1 au Derived from Radio Observations, Kontar, E., Emslie, A., Clarkson, D., Chen, X., Chrysaphi, N., Azzollini, F., Jeffrey, N., Gordovskyy, M. 1 Oct 2023, In: The Astrophysical Journal
• Exploring the Origin of Solar Energetic Electrons. I. Constraining the Properties of the Acceleration Region Plasma Environment, Pallister, R., Jeffrey, N. 20 Nov 2023, In: The Astrophysical Journal
• Source positions of an interplanetary type III radio burst and anisotropic radio-wave scattering, Chen, X., Kontar, E., Chrysaphi, N., Zhang, P., Krupar, V., Musset, S., Maksimovic, M., Jeffrey, N., Azzollini, F., Vecchio, A. Dec 2023, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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• STFC Consolidated Grant for the Solar and Space Physics Group at Northumbria University, McLaughlin, J. (Principal Investigator), Jeffrey, N. (Co Investigator), Science and Technologies Facilities Council, 01/04/23 - 31/03/26, £1,289,803.00

• Samuel Carter Constraining the processes that accelerate and transport solar flare energetic electrons from the Sun’s inner atmosphere to the Earth Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
• Samuel Carter Constraining the processes that accelerate and transport solar flare energetic electrons from the Sun’s inner atmosphere to the Earth Start Date: 01/10/2023

• Physics PhD December 31 2014
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA