Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:
I am a physicist, specialising in
planetary sciences, in particular the interiors of giant planets. My
focus has been on the zonal flows that dominate the surface dynamics of
both Jupiter and Saturn. I have approached the exploration of these
phenomena both using gravity data from in-situ measurements, as well as
performing numerical simulations to model them. The latter also involves
investigating how these winds influence the magnetic field and making
inferences with regards to the Gas Giants' interior structures.
Education and Employment:
2023 – 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at MPS
2020
– 2023: Ph.D. in Physics in the International Max Planck Research
School (IMPRS), thesis: "Numerical Modelling of Zonal Winds on Gas
Giants", Supervisors: Ulrich Christensen, Johannes Wicht, Wieland
Dietrich and Andreas Tilgner, Univ. of Göttingen, Germany
2017 – 2020: M.Sc. in Physics, thesis: "Zonal Wind-induced Gravity Anomalies", Univ. of Göttingen, Germany
2014 – 2017: BA in Natural Sciences, specializing in physics, University of Cambridge, UK
2007 – 2014: Belvedere Academy, High School, Liverpool, UK
Selected Publications:
(1) P. Wulff, U.R. Christensen, W. Dietrich, and J. Wicht, The Effects of a Stably Stratified Region with radially varying Electrical Conductivity on the Formation of Zonal Winds on Gas Planets. Submitted (2023).
(2)
V.G.A. Böning, P. Wulff, W. Dietrich, J. Wicht, and U.R. Christensen,
Direct driving of simulated planetary jets by upscale energy transfer,
A&A, 670, A15. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244278 (2023)
(3)
P. Wulff, W. Dietrich, U.R. Christensen, and J. Wicht, Zonal winds in
the gas planets driven by convection above a stably stratified layer,
MNRAS, Volume 517, Issue 4, Pages 5584–5593, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3045 (2022)
(4)
W. Dietrich, P. Wulff, J. Wicht, and U.R. Christensen, Linking zonal
winds and gravity – II. Explaining the equatorially antisymmetric
gravity moments of Jupiter, MNRAS, Volume 505, Issue 3, Pages 3177–3191,
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1566 (2021)