Nick Murphy

Contact Information

Nick Murphy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St., MS 16
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office: P-332A
Email: namurphy [at] cfa.harvard.edu

About me

I am a former graduate student who worked with Carl Sovinec and Ellen Zweibel. My thesis research was on the topic of magnetic reconnection, i.e. the breaking and rejoining of magnetic field lines in a highly conducting plasma. My research interests in general include plasma astrophysics, the numerical simulation of plasmas, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, magnetized turbulence in astrophysical settings, dissipation mechanisms in astrophysical plasmas, evolution of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium and in galaxies, stellar winds, relationships between laboratory and astrophysical plasma physics.

For further information, see my new website. My thesis is available here.