Professional Roles
2022- Scientific Software Engineer, Met Office, Exeter Responsibilities include the provision of operational quality Linux server stacks and the deployment of post-processing applications & pipelines into these environments. Additionally, I support the development of a range of these applications & pipelines (mostly in Python & Bash) as well as providing technical & scientific advise to other members of these teams.
2017-18 Ecommerce Manager, UrbanMoto Ltd, Lincoln
I was responsible for the development and operation of ecommerce activities across all platforms. This was achieved by leading and coordinating ecommerce development projects with both internal and external agencies, ensuring the general health of all ecommerce related systems and the management of staff who operate these systems. I successfully launched new product lines, redeveloped existing ecommerce platforms and integrated new systems into the existing ecosystem to improve staff productivity, sales revenue and customer satisfaction.
Northumbria University, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Examination of a fast magnetoacoustic waves, whose solution is obtained analytically using the WKB approximation and progressed along a characteristic using the RK4 method, as it propogates through a region containing a magnetic null point.
Lancaster University, Physics Department
Examining bulk radial transport and the radial interchange instability at Jupiter and Saturn using JERICHO, a kinetic-ion, fluid-electon hybrid plasma model.
Lancaster University, Physics Department
Ikuchi is an HTML/Javascript application which uses https://threejs.org/ to render 3D views of solar system magnetospheres.
McLaughlin, J., Thurgood, J., Botha, G. & Wiggs, J. (2019). 3D WKB solution for fast magnetoacoustic wave behaviour within a separatrix dome containing a coronal null point, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), pgs 1390–1400.
Arridge, C. & Wiggs, J. (2019). Ikuchi: 3D Views of Solar System Magnetospheres, Zenodo
Wiggs, J., Hodnett, R., Walach, M. & Walton, S. (2022). Meandering through the virtual MIST, Astronomy & Geophysics, 63(3), pgs 3.40–3.42.
Poster at Magnetospheres of Outer Planets Meeting 2021, Virtual Meeting, Liege, Belgium
Talk at Numerical Modelling of Planetary Magnetospheres, RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, Virtual Meeting, London, England
Poster at AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Hybrid Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Talk at EGU General Assembly 2022, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Talk at Magnetospheres of Outer Planets Meeting 2022, Liège, Belgium