
Professor Rainer Hollerbach
- Position: Professor
- Areas of expertise: magnetohydrodynamics; dynamo theory; hydrodynamic stability theory.
- Email: R.Hollerbach@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 5134
- Location: 9.17
- Website: Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
undefinedResearch interests
Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, with field strengths up to 10^15 G. At these field strengths phenomena such as the Hall effect become important, whereby the field affects its own evolution. It similarly influences the star’s temperature, with the diffusion of heat becoming strongly anisotropic, preferentially aligned along the magnetic field lines. My work involves high-resolution numerical modelling of this magneto-thermal evolution in neutron star crusts and cores.
Qualifications
- PhD 1990, Earth Sciences, University of California, San Diego
Professional memberships
- Institute of Mathematics & its Applications
- Institute of Physics
- American Geophysical Union
- American Physical Society
Student education
undefinedResearch groups and institutes
- Applied Mathematics
- Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics