Murphy, Nicholas

education and training

Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Astronomy, Thesis: Simulation and Analysis of Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics Experiment 2003 - 2009
B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, General Physics, and Mathematical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , Astronomy 1999 - 2003

awards and honors

Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2020
Fellow, conferred by American Astronomical Society, 2020
Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018

co-principal investigator on

Characterization of Solar Eruptions with Space-Based Instrumentation awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science

other research activities

PlasmaPy Coordinating Committee member and core developer 2016 -

has expertise in technique

Astrophysics Technique
Software development Technique

selected publications

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- Ni, Lei, Ji, Hantao, Murphy, Nicholas A., and Jara-Almonte, Jonathan. 2020. "Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A 476:90867. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0867 2020
- Mumford, Stuart, Freij, Nabil, Christe, Steven, Ireland, Jack, Mayer, Florian, Hughitt, V., Shih, Albert, Ryan, Daniel, Liedtke, Simon, Pérez-Suárez, David, Chakraborty, Pritish, K, Vishnunarayan, Inglis, Andrew, Pattnaik, Punyaslok, Sipőcz, Brigitta, Sharma, Rishabh, Leonard, Andrew, Stansby, David, Hewett, Russell, Hamilton, Alex, Hayes, Laura, Panda, Asish, Earnshaw, Matt, Choudhary, Nitin, Kumar, Ankit et al. 2020. "SunPy: A Python package for Solar Physics." Journal of Open Source Software, 5 1832. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01832. 2020
- Reeves, Katharine K., Török, Tibor, Mikić, Zoran, Linker, Jon, and Murphy, Nicholas A. 2019. "Exploring Plasma Heating in the Current Sheet Region in a Three-dimensional Coronal Mass Ejection Simulation." The Astrophysical Journal 887:103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4ce8 2019
- Ni, Lei, Lukin, Vyacheslav S., Murphy, Nicholas A., and Lin, Jun. 2018. "Magnetic Reconnection in Strongly Magnetized Regions of the Low Solar Chromosphere." The Astrophysical Journal 852:95. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9edb 2018
- Ni, Lei, Lukin, Vyacheslav S., Murphy, Nicholas A., and Lin, Jun. 2018. "Magnetic reconnection in the low solar chromosphere with a more realistic radiative cooling model." Physics of Plasmas 25:042903. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5018351 2018
- Ni, Lei, Zhang, Qing-Min, Murphy, Nicholas A., and Lin, Jun. 2017. "Blob Formation and Ejection in Coronal Jets due to the Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities." The Astrophysical Journal 841:27. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6ffe 2017
- Shen, Chengcai, Raymond, John C., Mikic, Zoran, Linker, Jon A., Reeves, Katharine K., and Murphy, Nicholas A. 2017. "Time-dependent Ionization in a Steady Flow in an MHD Model of the Solar Corona and Wind." The Astrophysical Journal 850:26. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa93f3 2017
- Murphy, Nicholas A. and Lukin, Vyacheslav S. 2015. "Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Weakly Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas." The Astrophysical Journal 805:134. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/134 2015
- Lin, Jun, Murphy, Nicholas A., Shen, Chengcai, Raymond, John C., Reeves, Katharine K., Zhong, Jiayong, Wu, Ning, and Li, Yan. 2015. "Review on Current Sheets in CME Development: Theories and Observations." Space Science Reviews 194:237-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-015-0209-0 2015
- Murphy, Nicholas A., Parnell, Clare E., and Haynes, Andrew L. 2015. "The appearance, motion, and disappearance of three-dimensional magnetic null points." Physics of Plasmas 22:102117. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934929 2015
- Tian, Hui, Li, Gang, Reeves, Katharine K., Raymond, John C., Guo, Fan, Liu, Wei, Chen, Bin, and Murphy, Nicholas A. 2014. "Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations of Magnetic Reconnection and Chromospheric Evaporation in a Solar Flare." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 797, L14. IOP Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/797/2/L14. 2014
- Shen, Chengcai, Reeves, Katharine K., Raymond, John C., Murphy, Nicholas A., Ko, Yuan-Kuen, Lin, Jun, Mikic, Zoran, and Linker, Jon A. 2013. "Non-equilibrium Ionization Modeling of the Current Sheet in a Simulated Solar Eruption." The Astrophysical Journal 773:110. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/110 2013
- Shen, Chengcai, Lin, Jun, and Murphy, Nicholas A. 2011. "Numerical Experiments on Fine Structure within Reconnecting Current Sheets in Solar Flares." The Astrophysical Journal 737 (1):14. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/737/1/14 2011
- Murphy, Nicholas A., Raymond, John C., and Korreck, K. E. 2011. "Plasma Heating During a Coronal Mass Ejection Observed By the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory." The Astrophysical Journal 735:17. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/17 2011
- Johnson, H., Raymond, John C., Murphy, Nicholas A., Giordano, S., Ko, Y. K., Ciaravella, A., and Suleiman, Raid. 2011. "Transition Region Emission from Solar Flares during the Impulsive Phase." The Astrophysical Journal 735:70. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/735/2/70 2011

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Plasma Astrophysics Co-instructor of graduate course in Harvard's Department of Astronomy 2014 - 2016

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