CI Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025

This year’s Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025 took place on the 15^th October at Daresbury Laboratory.

A group of people posing for a picture in a lecture theatre. — Participants at this year’s CI Postgraduate Conference.

Students from across the Institute presented their work in three talk sessions and a poster session, with 22 students joining from as far away as CERN. Presentations covered a wide range of accelerator science topics, from radiobiology and femtosecond scale beam diagnostics to the UK XFEL and bright THz radiation, highlighting the breadth of the Cockcroft’s research portfolio.

Two people shaking hands. — Poster-prize winner Maleesh Dissanayake Mudiyanselage (Lancaster University).

All presentations were of excellent quality, but the judges gave the prizes to Maleesh Dissanayake Mudiyanselage (Lancaster University) for his poster on “Investigating the Potential Power Reduction Strategies for the UK-XFEL LINAC” and to Ana Guisao-Betancur (University of Liverpool) for her talk on “Single-shot electron bunch profile monitor based on coherent transition radiation imaging”.

To people shaking hands and looking into the camera. — Ana Maria Guisao-Betancur (University of Liverpool) won the prize for best talk at this year’s conference.

The Cockcroft is proud to be training accelerator scientists for the coming decades and congratulates all participating students on their research and their presentations.