- 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
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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.
- 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.
- Orr, L, Chapman, S. C, Gjerloev, J. W, & Guo, W. (2021). Network community structure of substorms using SuperMAG magnetometers. Nature communications,12(1), 1842.
- 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.
PhD Thesis
- Orr, Lauren(2020) PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society