Valentina Zharkova
I am a Professor in Mathematics at Northumbria University. I obtained my PhD from the Solar Division of the Main Astronomical Observatory, Kyiv, Ukraine and my thesis was in non-LTE radiative transfer entitled “Hydrogen emission in quiescent solar prominences with filamentary structure". I have been a Lecturer at the University of Bradford, and in 2002 I was appointed to a Reader and in 2005 to a Professor in Applied Mathematics. From September 2013 I joined the Northumbria University as a Professor in Mathematics.
I have a wide range of research interests in solar and solar-terrestrial plasma physics, solar/medical imaging and pattern recognition/ classification. In general, I am interested in: particle motion in 3D magnetic field topology and magnetic reconnection; Fokker-Planck equations for particle precipitation; radiative transfer PDEs for multi-level atoms; Particle-in-Cell (PIC); Impact Excitation/Ionisation by thermal and non-thermal electrons/protons; Automated pattern recognition on full disk solar images; Artificial Intelligence Methods; Solar activity patterns.
Personal website: http://mpee.northumbria.ac.uk/staff/slmv5/kinetics/index.php