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January 17, 2024

Energy selective focusing of laser-driven protons

A team of researchers led by Paul McKenna, from the Cockcroft Institute / University of Strathclyde, has published an article investigating the focusing of laser-accelerated protons using hemisphere-cone targets. Relativistically…

December 20, 2023

United Kingdom joins Horizon Europe programme

As of 1 January 2024, the United Kingdom becomes an associated country to Horizon Europe, including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). Organisations based in the UK will be able to…

December 19, 2023

Prof Carsten Welsch to co-chair EIC Accelerator Collaboration

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) partner host labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Jefferson Lab, have announced Professor Carsten P Welsch, Head of Liverpool’s Accelerator Science cluster based at the Cockcroft Institute,…

December 18, 2023

New cohort of Cockcroft students awarded PhDs

In recent months, several PhD students affiliated with the Cockcroft Institute have successfully concluded their theses, marking a significant progression in their research journeys. Dr Shivaji Pande passed his PhD…

December 4, 2023

Media Training offered to EuPRAXIA-DN Fellows

Throughout their careers, researchers are expected to promote and advertise their research using professional media techniques. However, most researchers never receive any form of professional media training throughout their careers.…