News 2026

02.05.2026 Congratulations to PhD student and now Dr Adel S Alanezy on his successful viva! Well done!

01-03.05.2026 Suzana Silva participated at the 1st Open Sunrise III Science Meeting: Data Release and Science Projects, KIS, Freiburg. Oral presentation "Observational Evidence of Directed Information Transfer by Solar Vortices ".

24-30.05.2026 Viktor Fedun participated in the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026. Makuhari Messe, Chiba. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025. Session organiser. [P-EM15] "Frontiers in solar physics: observation, modeling, and long-term research from the past to the future" 

in collaboration with 

Mori Toriumi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), 

Kyoko Watanabe (National Defense Academy of Japan), 

Sterling Alphonse (NASA/MSFC), 

Shinsuke Imada (Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo), 

Haruhisa Iijima (Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research), 

Druett Malcolm Keith (University of Sheffield, UK), 

Alexander Peftsov (National Solar Observatory).

Presentation: [PEM15-P17] Vortical plasma processes in the solar atmosphere and their importance for energy transfer, Viktor Fedun, Suzana Silva, Lauren McClure, Mashael Aldhafeeri, Gary Verth, Istvan Ballai.

03.05.2026 Foad (our PhD student) participated in the 2nd European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) Summer School, focused on "The physics of the Sun and the Heliosphere," Dubrovnik, Croatia, from April 27 to May 3, 2026.

02.05.2026 Sun today.

26.04.2026 Congratulations to Jawaher (our PhD student) on the acceptance of her A&A paper "Magnetoacoustic waves in two-fluid weakly ionised solar atmospheric plasmas in ionisation non-equilibrium".

25.04.2026 Moon today.

20.04.2026 Congratulations to Adel on his first publication!  Adel Alanezy, Suzana Silva, Istvan Ballai, Gary Verth, and Viktor Fedun, “Oscillatory Dynamics and Energy Transport in Twisted Magnetic Flux Tubes of the Solar Photosphere”,  Solar Physics, 2026

16.04.2026 Viktor, Suzana and Malcolm participated in the UK Space Frontiers 2035 community engagement event, Space Park Leicester.

04.04.2026 Congratulations to Adel Alanezy (our PhD student) on the acceptance of his first paper for publication in Solar Physics! 

Adel Alanezy, Suzana Silva, Istvan Ballai, Gary Verth, and Viktor Fedun, “Oscillatory Dynamics and Energy Transport in Twisted Magnetic Flux Tubes of the Solar Photosphere”,  Solar Physics, 2026

25.03.2026 Congratulations to Ellie McClure (our PhD student) on her first publication! 

Lauren McClure, Suzana Silva, Gary Verth, Istvan Ballai and Viktor Fedun, “Solar Vortex Detection With Velocity Field Normalisation: Eliminating False Positives”, 

The Astrophysical Journal, 2026

16-18.03.2026 Dr Alina Donea (Monash University, Australia) visited PDG and presented a seminar titled “Stability of Large Sunspots.” She also had a number of useful discussions with PDG members as well as the SunbYte team. 

01-06.03.2026 This week, Malcolm Druett (Team Lead) and Foad Hanassi-Savari (PDG PhD student) attended the ISSI meeting ‘Next-Generation Solar Flare Modelling: Bridging the Multi-Dimensional Gap.’

21.02.2026 National Astronomical Meeting 2026 session "Modern methods for the analysis of dynamical plasma processes in the solar atmosphere" has been organised by the members of PDG (Suzana Silva, Lauren McClure, Viktor Fedun) in collaboration with Eamon Scullion, Kostas Tziotziou and Ivan Milic. Feel free to share the link with your community, for example, on social media or via email newsletters. Deadline 2nd April 2026.

10.02.2026 White Paper (Helio), UKRA STFC published, Silva, SSA., Fedun, V., Verth, G., Ballai, I., Scullion, E., Druett, M., Tziotziou, K., Pietrow, A., Yadav, N., Dakanalis, I., Khomenko, E., Kuniyoshi, H., Turkay, S., Pistarini, MK., Erdelyi, R., Schiavo, LACA., Observing solar vortices with existing and future instrumentation. Solar Physics International Network for Swirls (SPINS), 2026, arxiv

09-13.02.2026 Viktor Fedun participated in USO Golden Jubilee Conference, Udaipur, India  

04.01.2026 Congratulations to Malcolm Druett, with his successful application to the ISSI. Project: "Next-Generation Solar Flare Modelling: Bridging the multi-dimensional gap", ISSI Team led by Joel Allred & Malcolm Druett