School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Roddy Vann
Professor
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Profile
Career
| 2017- | Professor at the University of York |
| 2012-2017 | Senior Lecturer in Theoretical & Experimental Plasma Physics at the University of York |
| 2006-2012 | Lecturer in the Theory of Magnetically-Confined Fusion Plasmas at the University of York |
| 2003-2006 | EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics at the Universities of Warwick and York |
| 1999-2003 | PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Warwick |
| 1998-1999 | Part III in Mathematics at DAMTP, University of Cambridge |
| 1995-1998 | BA in Mathematics at St. John's College, University of Cambridge |
Roles in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
| 2016- | Fusion CDT Programme Director |
| 2011-2012 | Chair, Physics Graduate Studies Committee |
| 2010-2012 | Chair, Communications Committee |
| 2007-2010 | Graduate Training Officer |
University roles
| 2012-2020 | Director of Natural Sciences |
| 2014-2017 | Elected member of University Senate |
| 2011-2015 | CIDCATS Management Team |
| 2010-2016 | Member of University Teaching Committee |
| 2007-2010 | Member of Board for Graduate Schools |
| 2007-2010 | Academic auditor, Roberts Review Group |
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Human Uses of Energy (10cr BSc/MPhys Year 1)
- Nanoscience Mini-Projects (10cr Nanoscience Year 3)
- Natural Sciences Interdisciplinary Projects Coordinator (60-80cr Natural Sciences Year 3-4)
Other teaching
- Pastoral academic supervision of approx. 20 undergraduate students.
Research
Overview
Research Group: Plasma Physics & Fusion Group
For more information, please refer to my entry in the York Research Database.
Supervision
PhD students (primary supervisor):
- Lucy Holland (full-wave simulations of microwave-plasma interactions)
- Joe Allen (synthetic aperture microwave imaging at MAST-U)
- Sam Ward (3-D magnetic fields and fast particle confinement at ITER)
- Ben Woods (aspects of wave-particle resonant interactions in tokamaks)
PhD students (secondary supervisor)
- Lena Howlett (Turbulence in confinement transitions with novel divertor configurations)
- Andrew Malcolm-Neale (Beam emission spectroscopy at MAST)
- Charlie Vincent (Durham University; digitisation for SAMI-2)
- Mads Givskov Senstius (Danish Technical University; simulation of parametric decay instabilities of microwave heating beams at the upper hybrid layer)
York Plasma Institute
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
roddy.vann@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2296
Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2214
Room: GN/017, York Plasma Institute