The Cockcroft Institute

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, as co-chair of the EIC Accelerator Collaboration. Professor Welsch has…

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. Clockwise: Dr Shivaji Pande, Dr Gyanendra Yadav, Dr Felix Soubelet,Dr Volodymir Rodin, and Dr Liam Soomary.…

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. A media training week, hosted by experts from Carbon Digital,…

December 1, 2023

Joint LIV.INNO and EuPRAXIA-DN researcher training hosted in Liverpool

Cutting-edge postgraduate researcher training schemes guarantee international competitiveness of the researchers trained and provide them with the necessary skills for a future career as researcher in either the academic sector or in industry. Professor Carsten P Welsch, Head of Liverpool's…

November 29, 2023

Cockcroft Institute attends National Particle Accelerator Open Day

The National Particle Accelerator Open Day took place at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire on Monday 30th October. It was organised by ISIS Neutron and Muon Source with support from Diamond Light Source, the IoP, IET and STFC and…

November 27, 2023

Liverpool expert invited by EU to share best practice in PGR training

Each year the European Commission organizes a briefing day for coordinators of new networks funded within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The main objective of these events is to provide a briefing on the key management and procedural aspects of…

November 24, 2023

AWAKE-UK members take the pulse on the project

A group of members and associates of the AWAKE-UK collaboration met online on Friday 10 November to discuss the progress made in the project over the last six months. AWAKE-UK coordinator Matthew Wing gave an overview of the current status…

November 22, 2023

Undergraduate prospective students visit the Cockcroft Institute

A group of a hundred 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students from the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, and Strathclyde, visited Daresbury on Wednesday 8 October to learn about the research carried out in the laboratory as well as the…

November 6, 2023

The Cockcroft Institute opens summer internship programme to industrial collaborations

The Cockcroft Institute runs every summer a student internship programme, where young undergraduates are given the opportunity to work alongside researchers from the institute for six weeks, participating in projects at the forefront of accelerator science and technology. This…