About me

Academic interests

Eeron80 is more commonly known as Ian James O'Neill. I am a doctor of Solar Physics, more specifically coronal physics, coronal loop dynamics and turbulence in solar magnetic structures. I was awarded my PhD in July 2006 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA) and I am currently living in Los Angeles.

My thesis entitled Quiescent Coronal Loops Heated by Turbulence was defended in June 2006 and was the conclusion to a very successful 4 years of active reseach in the Solar Group at the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS, UWA). My PhD supervisor is the excellent Dr Xing Li who is a specialist in constructing solar wind and coronal loop models. I am currently continuing my search to find a research position in a postdoctoral capacity.

I also hold a Masters (MPhys) in Planetary and Space Physics of which i completed in 2002 at UWA also. In my final Masters semester, I spent 5 months living and studying in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard (more specifically in the capital town of Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen). My focus was studying the upper polar atmosphere and interaction of the solar wind with the ionosphere (i.e. aurorae). Research and study was carried out in the Norwegian university of UNIS, where I enjoyed a unique and exciting chapter of my life.

--iano 23:39, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I am also webmaster and contributor for the Mars Foundation™, a non-profit organization based in Boston, MA. I am also administrator and contributor for the Mars wiki, Marspedia.