Professor Eamon Scullion

Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

E_Scullion Between 2007 and 2010, I completed a Ph.D. in Solar Physics with thesis titled, “Investigating Jets in the lower-to-mid Solar Atmosphere: Observations and Numerical Simulations”. Between 2011 and 2013, I was awarded a post-doctoral research Fellowship position within the Institute for theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo, Norway. From 2013 to 2015, I was awarded a 2-year Irish Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship to carry out research at Trinity College Dublin (Rep. of Ireland).

I specialize in observational solar physics, which involves image processing and data analysis on high resolution observations of the lower atmosphere of the Sun.

Campus Address

Room 126, Pandon Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Email Eamon

@solarphysics_ie

Key Publications

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ALIGN: 1 Gbps Optical Inter-Satellite Link Demonstration on 6U CubeSats with the FOCUS Terminal, Riaz, A., Scullion, E., Wicks, R., Binns, R., Obreque, E., Khorchef, N., Martin, J., Vernon, J. 28 May 2026, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2026 - Proceedings, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
ALIGN: Laboratory Characterisation of 976 nm Beacon and 1550 nm Data Lasers for CubeSat Free-Space Optical Inter-Satellite Links, Riaz, A., Scullion, E., Wicks, R., Vernon, J., Binns, R., Khorchef, N., Obreque, E., Martin, J. 12 May 2026, 2026 6th Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Characterisation of amplified laser beam profiles subject to changing EDFA pump currents in CubeSats, Riaz, A., Scullion, E., Wicks, R., Ahmed, Z., Obreque, E., Khorchef, N., Vernon, J., del Valle, C., Zia-Ul-Mustafa, R., Binns, R., Martin, J. 5 Mar 2026, Free-Space Laser Communications XXXVIII, Washington, United States, SPIE
Digital twins for hazard-resilient power grids: A systematic review and roadmap, Cavus, M., Jiang, J., Allahham, A., Rameshrao, A., Scullion, E., Malamud, B., Sun, H., Ng, W. 1 Jul 2026, In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
High-Speed CubeSat Optical Transceiver Characterization Using Integrated PSD-APD Receiver for PAT-Enabled Links, Riaz, A., Scullion, E., Obreque, E., Wicks, R., Vernon, J., Binns, R., Khorchef, N., Martin, J. 15 Jul 2026, 2026 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2026 - Proceedings, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Mapping Oscillatory Flows in a Giant Chromospheric Spiral, Saneshwar, Y., Scullion, E., Botha, G. 20 Aug 2026, In: The Astrophysical Journal
Multiwavelength Observations of Substructures in Solar Flare Ribbons, Singh, V., Scullion, E., Botha, G., Jeffrey, N., Druett, M., Pietrow, A., O'Flannagain, A., Nelson, C., Doyle, G. 10 Aug 2026, In: The Astrophysical Journal
Synthesizing Sun-as-a-star flare spectra from high-resolution solar observations (Corrigendum), De Wilde, M., Pietrow, A., Druett, M., Pastor Yabar, A., Koza, J., Kontogiannis, I., Andriienko, O., Berlicki, A., Brunvoll, A., de la Cruz Rodríguez, J., Thoen Faber, J., Joshi, R., Kuridze, D., Nóbrega-Siverio, D., Rouppe van der Voort, L., Rybák, J., Scullion, E., Silva, A., Vashalomidze, Z., Vicente Arévalo, A., Wiśniewska, A., Yadav, R., Zaqarashvili, T., Zbinden, J., Øyre, E. 17 Jun 2026, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Reliability of Local Correlation Tracking for Inferring Photospheric Intensity Vortices, Turkay, S., Scullion, E., Botha, G., Rees-Crockford, T. 1 Mar 2026, In: The Astrophysical Journal
Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) for Optical Satellite Communications: Recent Trends and the ALIGN UK Mission’s PAT Mechanism, Zia-Ul-Mustafa, R., Graham, C., Obreque, E., Binns, R., Scullion, E., Wicks, R., Martin, J., Riaz, A., Khorchef, N., Vernon, J., Bourgenot, C. 28 Oct 2025, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE

Current and Recent Projects

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ROARS - CubeSats Revealing Orbital and Atmospheric Responses to Solar Activity, Scullion, E. (Principal Investigator), European Space Agency, 02/10/23 - 01/04/24, £8,197.00
Laser Communication and Cubesat - Phase 3, Scullion, E. (Principal Investigator), UK Space Agency, 01/12/22 - 31/03/25, £4,687,593.00
Laser Communications in CuebSats, Scullion, E. (Principal Investigator), UK Space Agency, 01/10/21 - 31/03/22, £647,283.00

PGR Supervision

Faye Donaghy Understanding the multi-layer physics of vortices in the lower solar atmosphere. Start Date: 01/10/2026
Yash Bapurao Saneshwar Exploring fundamental MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) properties of solar chromospheric magnetic fields, via a unique observation of a large-scale swirl and associated magnetic null point Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025
Shivdev Turkay Exploring the multi-scaled nature of solar vortices Start Date: 25/09/2023
Shivdev Turkay Exploring the multi-scaled nature of solar vortices with DKIST Start Date: 25/09/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
Yash Bapurao Saneshwar Exploring fundamental MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) properties of solar chromospheric magnetic fields, via a unique observation of a large-scale swirl and associated magnetic null point Start Date: 01/10/2022