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Dr. Maloney is a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). He obtained his PhD from TCD studying solar physics in 2012. He worked as a lead software engineer at an SME from 2012 until 2016. Shane moved back into academia in late 2016, rejoining the solar and space weather group, working on STIX a next generation X-ray instrument on Solar Orbiter which is due for launch in Feb 2020.

Research

• Solar Flares
  • Particle Acceleration Mechanisms
  • Statistics
• Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
  • Energetic and Kinematics
  • Propagation Models
• Space Weather
  • Effect on flare and CMEs on modern technology
• Image Processing & Machine Learning
  • Automated feature detection and tracking