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Dr Matthew Townson

Assistant Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

 

 

Matthew Townson
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  • AMPERE Observations of the Asymmetry Toward Stronger Birkeland Currents in the Northern Hemisphere, Coxon, J., Vines, S., Mo, W., Townson, M., Watt, C., Rae, I., Bloomfield, D., Smith, A., Milan, S., Anderson, B., Patrick, A., Hasler, M. May 2026, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
  • Innovative Small-Scale PV Modeling: Optimizing the Single-Diode Approach for Sub-Watt Systems, Brown, M., Ng, W., Bahrami, A., Jiang, J., Townson, M. 15 Jul 2026, 2026 15th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2026, IEEE
  • LATTE: the LAser Tip/Tilt Experiment, Hartley, K., Calia, D., Jenkins, D., Alaluf, D., Bustos, F., Centrone, M., Faccini, M., Townson, M., Barrett, K., Calvo, R., Barrios, R., Reeves, A., Osborn, J. 1 Sep 2026, In: Applied Optics
  • Demonstration of 24-hour continuous optical turbulence monitoring in a city, Beesley, L., Griffiths, R., Hartley, K., Farley, O., Quatresooz, F., Rodríguez-Gómez, A., Comerón, A., Townson, M., Alaluf, D., Osborn, J. 10 Mar 2025, In: Optics Express
  • facer-model, Coxon, J., Milan, S., Townson, M. 26 Aug 2025
  • Five years of the European Adaptive Optics Summer School, Young, L., Kulcsar, C., Hampson, K., Morris, T., Booth, M., Dubis, A., Fernandez, E., Hu, Q., Mece, P., Meimon, S., Neichel, B., Osborn, J., Sarunic, M., Townson, M., Boffety, M., Bouanani, M., Lebrun, S., Burcklen, M., Clenet, Y., Galland, N., Jacubowiez, L., Jongh, I., Lawton, P., Levraud, N., Lognone, P., Papagiannouli, I., Raynaud, H., Artal, P., Butterley, T., Chambouleyron, V., d'Orgeville, C., Pircher, M., Reeves, A. 24 Nov 2025, In: Asian Journal of Physics
  • Pre-distortion adaptive optics for optical feeder links: simulations and performance analyses, Hristovski, I., Osborn, J., Farley, O., Townson, M., Calvo, R., Femenía-Castella, B., Torres, J., Holzman, J., Reeves, A. 3 Jun 2024, In: Optics Express
  • Demonstrating 24-hour continuous vertical monitoring of atmospheric optical turbulence, Griffiths, R., Osborn, J., Farley, O., Butterley, T., Townson, M., Wilson, R. 13 Feb 2023, In: Optics Express
  • FAST simulation of bidirectional ground-space optical links with adaptive optics, Farley, O., Osborn, J., Townson, M. 25 Apr 2023, Proceedings of SPIE, Washington, US, SPIE
  • First on-sky demonstration of a scintillation correction technique using tomographic wavefront sensing, Hartley, K., Farley, O., Townson, M., Osborn, J., Wilson, R. 15 Feb 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lillian Rodrick Satellites as atmospheric probes: What orbital decay reveals about our space environment Start Date: 01/10/2026
Physics PhD June 30 2016

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