Jonathan Skipp

PhD Student investigating the interaction between turbulent waves and coherent structures in plasmas and fluids.

Education and employment

2013-21	PhD Complexity Science, University of Warwick Turbulent cascades and condensation in nonlinear wave systems (Supervisor: Prof Sergey Nazarenko)
2012-13	MSc Complexity Science, University of Warwick Miniproject 1: Interaction of nematic liquid crystal defects with electric fields (Supervisor: Dr Gareth Alexander) Miniproject 2: Modon propogation and collision in the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima plasma model (Supervisor: Dr Bogdan Hnat)
2011-12	MSc Fusion Energy, University of York Thesis title: Theory of 2D drift wave structures in tokamaks (Supervisor: Prof Howard Wilson)
2005-11	Technical Officer, Development Directorate, Birmingham City Council Engineering, regulatory and legal work in highway construction projects
2002-04	MPhil Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Leicester Thesis title: The mass loss – period evolution of Black Widow Pulsars (Supervisor: Prof Andrew King)
2001	Research Project, Queen Mary, University of London Summer project simulating valence force field models of crystal structures (Supervisor: Prof David Dunstan)
1999-02	BA Natural Sciences, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Publications

Equilibria and condensates in Rossby and drift wave turbulence
Jonathan Skipp and Sergey Nazarenko 2021, Journal of Physics A, https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ac3946

Wave turbulence in self-gravitating Bose gases and nonlocal nonlinear optics
Jonathan Skipp, Victor L'vov, and Sergey Nazarenko 2020, Physical Review A, 102, 043318

Global Structure of Micro-instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas: Stiff Transport or Plasma Eruptions?
D Dickinson, CM Roach, JM Skipp and HR Wilson, 2014, Physics of Plasmas 21, 010702

The population of black widow pulsars
AR King, ME Beer, DJ Rolfe, K Schenker and JM Skipp, 2005, Mon Not Roy Astron Soc 358, 1501-1504

Harmonic and anharmonic components of third-order elastic constants
JM Skipp and DJ Dunstan, 2004, Phys Rev B, 69, 05410