Experience

Rinicom Ltd

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Engineer

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Lancaster, England, United Kingdom Developing innovative radio communications systems.



Lancaster University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • May 2013 - Present

  Lancaster, UK Researching the effects of the Earth’s ionosphere on radio systems. I'm currently developing an online forecasting service for airline HF communications which predicts outages due to space weather (solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar proton events) by assimilating data from riometers (which measure cosmic noise absorption), magnetometers, and spacecraft instruments. I have provided 7 years consultancy to Airbus Defence & Space advising on the ionospheric impacts on the… Show more Researching the effects of the Earth’s ionosphere on radio systems. I'm currently developing an online forecasting service for airline HF communications which predicts outages due to space weather (solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar proton events) by assimilating data from riometers (which measure cosmic noise absorption), magnetometers, and spacecraft instruments. I have provided 7 years consultancy to Airbus Defence & Space advising on the ionospheric impacts on the European Space Agency’s Biomass radar satellite. I maintain an interest in ionospheric radio scintillation (scattering) which affects satcoms, satellite navigation (Galileo, GPS etc.), and satellite or space-tracking radars: I recently co-supervised a PhD student on scintillation studies using imaging riometers. Teaching: Supervised an MPhys final-year project student (2022-2023). Co-supervised the 3rd-year undergraduate Space Science Team Projects (Dept of Physics) and co-supervised PhD students in the Space & Planetary Physics group. Promoted to Research Fellow (Level 8) in 2023. Show less



University of Birmingham

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Jul 2017 - Jan 2018

  Birmingham, United Kingdom Implemention of a European Space Agency 3-D electron density model of the ionosphere which assimilates real-time global navigation satellite system data.



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Oct 2010 - May 2013

  European Space Agency (ESA) BIOMASS mission performance analysis. I researched the ionospheric impacts and mitigation for this polarimetric interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PolInSAR). I provided the Ionosphere generation and correction modules for the BIOMASS end-to-end radar simulator (BEES) - an international software project led by DLR (Germany) for ESA. Teaching: Lecturer for the 4th-year course on "Signal Processing" and tutorial leader in the School of Mathematics and… Show more European Space Agency (ESA) BIOMASS mission performance analysis. I researched the ionospheric impacts and mitigation for this polarimetric interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PolInSAR). I provided the Ionosphere generation and correction modules for the BIOMASS end-to-end radar simulator (BEES) - an international software project led by DLR (Germany) for ESA. Teaching: Lecturer for the 4th-year course on "Signal Processing" and tutorial leader in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Show less



QinetiQ

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Nov 1996 - Oct 2010

  Malvern, UK Senior scientist at QinetiQ's Centre for RF Propagation and Atmospheric Research leading scientific research projects, managing field trials, conducting experimental radio/antenna deployments, and contributing to funding proposals. Major projects included propagation modelling for GPS and Galileo navigation, HF radar, space-based radars, space-object tracking radars, 1-62 GHz propagation through vegetation, VLF systems, digital HF/MF broadcasting, ionospheric heating, and ionospheric… Show more Senior scientist at QinetiQ's Centre for RF Propagation and Atmospheric Research leading scientific research projects, managing field trials, conducting experimental radio/antenna deployments, and contributing to funding proposals. Major projects included propagation modelling for GPS and Galileo navigation, HF radar, space-based radars, space-object tracking radars, 1-62 GHz propagation through vegetation, VLF systems, digital HF/MF broadcasting, ionospheric heating, and ionospheric tomography. Show less