The Cockcroft Institute

November 28, 2024

Global Commission Calls for Action to Improve Access to Radiotherapy and Theranostics

The Cockcroft Institute engineer from Lancaster University, Prof Graeme Burt, has taken part in the Lancet Oncology Commission on Radiotherapy and Theranostics. The Commission, established by the renowned medical journal, aims to assess the current status of access to radiotherapy…

November 25, 2024

New lecturer at Lancaster University to join the Cockcroft Institute

Christopher Arran will join the Cockcroft Institute as a Lecturer at Lancaster University at the start of 2025. He works on high intensity laser-matter interactions and how we can use lasers as unique particle accelerators to study fundamental physics. During…

November 22, 2024

CI Postgraduate Conference 2024

The annual Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Conference (CIPGC) was held on the 29th of October 2024 in the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Laboratory. This was a great opportunity for Cockcroft students to showcase the wonderful research conducted within their groups…

November 18, 2024

Major milestone in delivery of RF cavities for PIP-II

Researchers at Daresbury, including members of the Cockcroft Institute, are a key part of the delivery of the FermiLab led Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project. The expertise in testing RF cavities at Daresbury, including years of building experience working…

November 15, 2024

10th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network annual meeting

The 10th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network annual meeting took place at the Cockcroft Institute on the 6th September The network was jointly created by the IET, IMechE, IoP and STFC and is hosted by the IET as one of their…

October 23, 2024

EuPRAXIA holds Satellite Meeting during BSBF 2024

EuPRAXIA took centre stage at the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2024, hosting a satellite meeting which showcased its pioneering work in plasma-based accelerators and its critical role in advancing a key new European research infrastructure. The meeting was organized…

October 21, 2024

PhD Successes from Lancaster

Clockwise: Dr Alex Warwick, Dr Dan Turner, Dr Sam Smith and Dr Matt Southerby. 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…

October 16, 2024

New lecturer joins the Cockcroft Institute

Dr Andrea Santamaria Garcia will join the Cockcroft Institute as a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in early 2025. Andrea specialises in machine learning applied to particle accelerators, with the aim of improving the performance of existing accelerators and…

October 14, 2024

The Cockcroft Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary

The Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology celebrated its 20th birthday on Friday the 20th September 2024 at Daresbury Laboratory. Approximately twenty years ago, accelerator science was re-established in UK universities and this initiative led to the creation of…