Fulbright scholarship awarded to space weather researcher

A Fulbright Award - one of the best-regarded and impactful scholarship programmes in the world - has been awarded to Professor Sandra Chapman from the University of Warwick. Professor Chapman, from the Department of Physics, will be conducting research on space weather at Boston University in the USA, after receiving the Fulbright Lloyds of London Scholar Award. The research will focus on how space weather impacts our planet - for example, power loss, aviation disruption, communication loss and disturbance to satellite systems. Professor Chapman's work will bring data analytics to the physics of space weather, using observations from satellites and ground based stations to quantify its risk and impacts. Professor Chapman and the other 44 British grantees of the 2017-18 Fulbright cohort will celebrate their success at a reception hosted by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on Thursday 6 July. Commenting on receiving the Award, Professor Chapman said : "I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity by Lloyds of London and the Fulbright Commission to conduct important research in the USA. The effects of space weather on our planet and on our daily lives are becoming ever more important as our world become more interconnected - and my work will use novel methods to understand and mitigate its threats to us." Sandra Chapman is Professor of Physics at University of Warwick, UK.