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Professor Rainer Hollerbach

Professor Rainer Hollerbach

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Research 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.

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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

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Research groups and institutes

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Current postgraduate researchers

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