About Stephanie Yardley
Steph is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in the Solar and Space Physics Group at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on understanding the physical processes underlying solar activity and space weather. In particular, solar phenomena that can drive hazardous space weather conditions in the near-Earth environment such as coronal mass ejections (eruptions of magnetised plasma), energetic particles accelerated during these eruptions, and the solar wind (continuous flow of particles from the Sun). Alongside her research, she is actively involved in public engagement, media and outreach activities aimed at various audiences from school students to the general public.