A better forecast for space weather

Research lives: Dr Sophie Murray is a research fellow at TCD and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Sophie Murray: ‘I’m really lucky in that I love my job.’

Sophie Murray: ‘I’m really lucky in that I love my job.’

What does your day at work involve?

That depends. During term time, on a given day I might be lecturing to students at Trinity College Dublin. Then for my research, I am based at Trinity and at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

I work on improving approaches to space weather forecasts – particularly how we can better detect activity such as solar flares of radiation that travel out from the Sun towards Earth. I also do outreach at Dunsink Observatory, where we give and host talks, and we help people to use the telescopes to look at the stars and planets.

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