Dr Matthew Browning
Lecturer in Astrophysics
My primary research interests are in plasma astrophysics, computational fluid dynamics generally, and stellar astronomy. I am particularly interested in convection and magnetism in stars: most stars harbor magnetic fields somewhere in their interiors, and those fields likely play a role in nearly every phase of stellar evolution. Most of my research involves using three-dimensional simulations of magnetized fluids, but recently I've also delved a bit into observational studies of stellar rotation and activity. Before coming to Exeter, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), in Toronto, and an NSF postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley before that. I did my doctoral work with Juri Toomre in Boulder (at JILA, within the University of Colorado), my undergrad at Rice (Houston, Texas), and grew up in West Virginia (which is even hillier than Exeter, and quite a bit farther from the ocean).
