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Hannah Schunker

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ARC Future Fellow, University of Newcastle

My expertise is in solar and stellar physics, particularly in an effort to understand the solar dynamo using helioseismology and asteroseismology. The solar dynamo produces the Sun's magnetic field, which increases and decreases in activity level with an 11 year period. Space weather is a practical consequence of solar magnetism, and successful space weather forecasting relies on having a thorough physical understanding of the Sun's magnetic field.

I am an ARC Future Fellow focused on research 'Closing the Solar Cycle' at the University of Newcastle, Australia, after spending fourteen years working as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
  • 2020–2023
    Lecturer, University of Newcastle
  • 2019–2020
    Research scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
  • 2012–2018
    Project scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
  • 2006–2011
    Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Education

  • 2007 
    Monash University, Doctor of Philosophy (Astrophysics)

Research Areas

  • Space And Solar Physics (020109)
  • Stellar Astronomy And Planetary Systems (020110)