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who am i?
I’m a PhD student at Dunsink Observatory , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) - specifically working in the Planetary Magnetospheres group. I study Mercury’s magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar environment through the analysis of large data-sets from NASA’s MESSENGER mission (2011-2015), and upon its arrival, ESA/JAXA’s BepiColombo. My work currently focuses on Mercury’s magnetospheric boundaries - the bow shock and magnetopause and the automated detection of boundary crossings via simple machine learning methods. I’m a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, fully funded by Research Ireland.