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June 22, 2020

Advancements in the Optimization of Medical Accelerators

The online magazine News Medical has recently published an interview with CI expert Professor Carsten P. Welsch. In the interview, Prof Welsch explains the basic principles of proton beam therapy and the benefits of medical accelerator research to improve radiotherapy…
June 3, 2020

New ASTeC director appointment announced

Professor Jim Clarke Congratulations to Professor Jim Clarke, who has been confirmed by STFC executive board as the new director of the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre at Daresbury. Jim will take over some activities immediately and will formally take…
June 1, 2020

Cockcroft scientists present at Virtual IPAC 2020

Every year the international particle accelerator community gathers for the International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC), the largest regular gathering in the field of accelerator physics. The 2020 conference was due to be held in Caen, northern France, but the physical…
May 27, 2020

ASTeC welcomes new Application Engineer

ASTeC is pleased to welcome Roland Schnuerer as the new Application Engineer. He joined RF & Cryogenics group on the 6th April from the Cockcroft Institute, where he was previously studying for a PhD through the University of Liverpool. Roland…
May 22, 2020

Promotional videos of Cockcroft Institute now online

The Cockcroft Institute has launched three new promotional videos on its YouTube channel as part of its campaign to attract the best PhD candidates from throughout the world. In the video Welcome to Cockcroft, senior members of the Institute describe…
April 22, 2020

“A Tale of Two Tunnels” at the British Science Week

Just before the COVID19 shutdown, British Science Week was in full force and delivered on giving young people and families a final fix of science festival fun (at least for the time being). Dr Edmonds and his team talking to…
April 6, 2020

Plasma-based electron beam sources get €2 million funding from ERC

Plasma channel. Credit: University of Strathclyde Professor Bernhard Hidding, from the Cockcroft Institute and University of Strathclyde, has been awarded more than €2 million by the European Research Council (ERC), for a project aiming to develop next-generation plasma-based electron beam…