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Dr Ben Fernando

Postdoctoral Fellow - Christ Church College

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  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

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  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

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  • Solar system
benjamin.fernando@physics.ox.ac.uk
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 209h
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About me

I'm a postgraduate fellow at Christ Church College and in the Department of Physics. 

My academic research is in planetary geophysics, specifically seismology. I work on the NASA InSight mission to Mars and the Dragonfly mission to Titan, and have previously worked on the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu. Mostly, I work on running computational simulations of wave propagation in the oceans, atmospheres, and interiors of these bodies. Sometimes I work on the Earth too! 

I also help run Christ Church's Access and Outreach programs, which focus on building a more inclusive environment within the college and recruiting student from under-represetned backgrounds to Oxford. 

Alongside my academic research I'm a Midshipman in the Royal Navy Reserves, based at HMS President in London; and write on a number of science policy topics. 

Research interests

Seismology
Geophysics
Planetary Science

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