Education

PhD: PLASMA PHYSICS

09/1994 – 08/1997

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

  • Thesis titled “Magnetohydrodynamic Models of Plasma Equilibria in SPHEX” (computer simulation of plasma configurations)
    Publications:
    D. M. Willett et al., Plasma Phys. Cont. Fus. 41, 595 (1999);
    D. M. Willett et al., 24th Euro. Conf. on Cont. Fusion & Plasma Phys., Europhys Conf Abs. 21A, I, 389, Berchtesgaden (1997).

BSc (Hons) Class I: PHYSICS WITH ASTROPHYSICS

09/1990 – 07/1994

University of Kent at Canterbury

  • Final Year Project: “Calibration of the Huygens Probe Penetrometer”
    Publication: R. D. Lorenz et al., Meas. Sci. Tech. 5, 1033 (1994).
  • Prize: Faculty of Natural Sciences Award for the best first-year examination results.
  • Study Year in Germany at the Philipps-University in Marburg.

BSc (not completed): ELECTRONICS AND PHYSICS

09/1984 – 07/1986

Loughborough University of Technology

A-LEVELS

09/1982 – 07/1984

Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School

  • Physics: A, Mathematics: B, Chemistry: B, General Studies: A

O-LEVELS

09/1978 – 07/1982

Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School

  • English Language: A, Mathematics: A, German: A, French: A, Latin: A, Physics: A, Chemistry: A, Biology: A, English Literature: C