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Professor Mikhail V. Medvedev | Plasma Waves in Extreme Magnetic Fields: Exploring the Quantum Regime
In environments where magnetic fields exceed even the limits of classical physics, such as magnetars and next-generation laser experiments, plasma behaviour is fundamentally altered by quantum effects. Professor Mikhail V. Medvedev and colleagues have developed a framework to understand how these extreme conditions reshape plasma waves, revealing that while familiar wave structures persist, their properties are significantly modified. These insights provide a foundation for interpreting astrophysical observations and advancing high-energy plasma experiments.
Distinguished Professor Michael Zhdanov | Mapping Magma and Drilling for Oil: New Methods for Geophysical Modelling
Geophysicists use a variety of different methods to peer beneath the Earth’s surface. Seismic activity, gravitational fields , and magnetic fields each offer their own windows into the world underground, but, in isolation, are incapable of giving us the full picture. Combining data from distinct geophysical surveys, however, is its own challenge. For a number of years, a team of researchers led by Professor Michael Zhdanov has worked to develop a mathematical framework capable of generating detailed geophysical models from multiphysics data.
Through application to modelling magma chambers underneath Yellowstone and searching for oil deposits in the Barents Sea, they demonstrate that their approach can produce robust and accurate predictions
Dr Alex Fedoseyev | Unravelling Turbulence Mysteries
Turbulence remains one of the most enigmatic and poorly understood phenomena in physics, despite being ubiquitous in nature and everyday life—from the experience of flying through turbulent air, to driving at high speed, to observing water swirling in a river. The challenge of understanding turbulence has captivated some of history’s greatest minds.
Albert Einstein (physicist): “A turbulent flow is a problem whose solution has always defied the greatest minds.”
Richard Feynman (physicist): “Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.”
What are the governing equations of turbulence? Dr Alex Fedoseyev is unravelling turbulence mysteries using the Alexeev Hydrodynamic Equations (AHE). The model he developed has enabled major advances in the prediction of turbulent flows and laid the foundation for practical turbulence management.
Dr Jan-Hendrik Schöbel – Dr Michael Felderhoff | Greener techniques for the production of pharmaceutical co-crystals through mechanochemistry
Pharmaceutical manufacturers face increasing pressure to reduce solvent use, energy consumption and waste. Mechanochemistry explores mechanical force rather than heat to drive chemical reactions in the absence of solvents, and offers a promising alternative.
At the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Germany, Dr Jan-Hendrik Schöbel and Dr Michael Felderhoff are exploring how large, industrial milling technologies can be adapted to produce high-value pharmaceutical co-crystals cleanly and efficiently. Their recent studies demonstrate that both drum mills and attritor mills, equipment long used in mining and materials processing, can be repurposed for greener production of ibuprofen:nicotinamide co-crystals.