Valentina Zharkova on War of the Worlds - 28 October 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Prof. Valentina Zharkova. PhD is the Director of ZVS Research Enterprise Ltd.​ She is also Emerita Prof. of Mathematics​ at the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering​ at Northumbria University​ in Newcastle upon Tyne​. Valentina obtained her PhD in Astrophysics ​ with a thesis concerning ‘Radiative transfer of solar prominences’ ​conducting research at the Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine. ​Valentina is currently one of the foremost solar researchers in Great Britain and the world at large and discovered sunquakes induced by flaring processes, publish​ing a paper ​on the topic in Nature, 1998 with wide media coverage. ​She's published more th​an 200 papers​ including ​her study predicting the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053).​. She has received a SOHO/MDO team award for discovery of sunquake (1999), RHESSI award for outstanding research (2005), NSF US award for advanced studies of solar flares (2002).