The Cockcroft Institute congratulates four of its PhD students who have graduated over the last few months.
Dan Turner and Sam Smith passed their PhD viva on 27 June. They were both doing research in the RF Engineering of Accelerators at Lancaster Group and the Cockcroft Institute.
Dan’s PhD was on ”An investigation of the magnetic field of full flux penetration of superconducting materials for radio-frequency cavities” and was supervised by Graeme Burt at Lancaster, Oleg Malyshev in ASTeC, and Tobias Junginger from the University of Victoria in Canada. His examiners were Jean Delayen from Old Dominion University/Jlab and Steve Jamison from Lancaster. Dan is currently a CERN Fellow working on flux trapping in superconductors.
Sam’s PhD was on “Novel Low Energy Linacs for 3D X-ray Scanning Applications” and was supervised by Graeme Burt in collaboration with Rapiscan. His examiners were Roger Jones from Manchester and Rosa Letizia from Lancaster. Sam is currently a CERN fellow working on fast reactive tuners.
Matt Southerby successfully defended his thesis on 20 February with Rosa Letizia and Andrea Latina as the examiners. His PhD on “Electromagnetic design of a 3 GHz RF cavity for proton radiotherapy and analytical methods for solving the corresponding beam dynamics” was exploring the linac design and beam dynamics studies for a proton radiotherapy system in partnership with AVO. He was supervised by Rob Apsimon and Graeme Burt at Lancaster as well as Stefano Benedetti at AVO. The examiners where Rosa Letizia from Lancaster and Andrea Latina from CERN. Matt has just accepted a position as a radiotherapy research physicist at UCLH, and intends to continue working in proton therapy moving forward.
Finally, Alex Warwick passed his PhD viva on 10 September. His PhD on “Using moment tracking to improve macroparticles in particle-in-cell codes” was supervised by Jonathan Gratus. His examiners were Dr Chris Ridgers from York and Dr David Sloan from Lancaster. Alex is currently working as an R&D Engineer for Ansys, as part of their Motor-CAD team.
Congrats!