TURBULENT MIX AND DESTRUCTION OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS

我于2017年获得巴斯大学物理学学士学位，并于2018年毕业于圣安德鲁斯大学天体物理学硕士学位。接下来的三年里，我在互联和自动驾驶汽车行业担任创新解决方案工程师。为了满足我对天体物理学、聚变技术和等离子体物理学日益增长的兴趣，我决定在聚变CDT攻读博士学位。我现在在约克大学攻读博士学位，师从奈杰尔·伍尔西教授。我的研究重点是理解在极端条件下物质中表现出来的流体动力不稳定性、湍流和物质混合背后的基本物理。从一毫米大小的惯性聚变燃料舱的内爆到一颗大质量恒星的爆炸，这些物理行为在不同的尺度上被观察和研究。作为我博士项目的一部分，我们目前正在与First Light Fusion有限公司合作，设计并执行一个实验，通过使用他们的光气枪设备，在实验室规模上复制超新星冲击波与云的相互作用。在英国和其他地方也有机会提出使用高能激光的类似想法。我的研究旨在帮助理解高能量密度天体物理和实验室现象背后的物理学，以及开发与惯性约束聚变相关的可靠测量工具和技术。

I obtained my BSc degree in Physics from the University of Bath in 2017 and graduated from the University of St. Andrews with an MSc Degree in Astrophysics in 2018. I then spent the next three years working as an innovative solution engineer in the connected and autonomous mobility industry. To satisfy my growing interest in astrophysics, fusion technology and plasma physics, I decided to pursue a PhD at Fusion CDT.I have now started my PhD at the University of York under the supervision of Prof. Nigel Woolsey. My research focuses on understanding the fundamental physics behind hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence and material mix as manifest in the matter at extreme conditions. These physical behaviours are observed and studied at enormously different scales extending from the implosion of a millimetre-sized inertial fusion fuel capsule to the explosion of a massive star.As part of my PhD project, we are currently collaborating with First Light Fusion Ltd. to design and perform an experiment to replicate supernova shock-cloud interactions in a laboratory scale by using their light gas gun facility. There are opportunities to propose similar ideas that use high energy laser in the UK and elsewhere. My studies aim to contribute to understanding the physics behind high energy density astrophysical and laboratory phenomena as well as developing reliable tools and techniques for measurements relevant to inertial confinement fusion.