- 2020 – 2022: Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University
- 2020 – 2020: Post-Doc Research Fellow, University of Warwick
- 2016 – 2020: PhD Plasma Physics, University of Warwick
- 2012 – 2016: MMath Mathematics, University of St Andrews
- Space weather, particularly storms and substorms
- Geomagnetically induced currents
- High latitude electric field models
- Magnetospheric and Ionospheric currents
- Data analysis using modern techniques e.g. Network Analysis, Wavelets, Extreme value analysis
ORCID: 0000-0002-8257-1362
Key papers
- Orr, L, Grocott, A, Walach, M.-T, Chisham, G, Freeman, M. P, Lam, M. M, & Shore, R. M. (2023). A quantitative comparison of high latitude electric field models during a large geomagnetic storm. Space Weather, 21, e2022SW003301. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022SW003301
- Orr, L,Chapman, S. C, & Beggan, C. D. (2021). Wavelet and network analysis of magnetic field variation and geomagnetically induced currents during large storms. Space Weather, 19, e2021SW002772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021SW002772
- Orr, L, Chapman, S. C, Gjerloev, J. W, & Guo, W. (2021). Network community structure of substorms using SuperMAG magnetometers. Nature communications, 12(1), 1842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22112-4
- Orr, L, Chapman, S. C, & Gjerloev, J. W. (2019). Directed network of substorms using SuperMAG ground-based magnetometer data. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6268–6278. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082824
PhD Thesis
- Orr, Lauren(2020) Directed dynamical networks applied to SuperMAG ground-based magnetometers. PhD thesis, University of Warwick. http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b3736091
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society