We are pleased to announce that CI expert Professor Rob Appleby has been appointed Associate Vice President for Students at the University of Manchester. In his new role, Rob will…
The fourth edition of the Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA’26) workshop was held in Liverpool from 30th March to 1st April 2026 as a LIV.INNO workshop. The workshop also…
The University of Liverpool’s QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, is delighted to celebrate the successful completion of three doctoral theses by Ondrej Sedlacek, Oliver Stringer and Catherine Swain. Their work spans cutting-edge accelerator…
A major milestone has been reached in efforts to transform particle-beam therapy and radiobiology, as the team behind the LhARA collaboration publishes a Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Ion…
Leading representatives from European institutions – from the European Commission to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) – together with stakeholders from research, industry, and funding agencies gathered…
Six past and present members of the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology from Liverpool and Lancaster universities are among the winners of this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental…
When the concept of mode-locking was introduced in lasers in the 1960s it allowed the laser pulse duration to be reduced by orders of magnitude. In conventional lasers mode-locking relies…
CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory has now achieved 250 MeV beam energy, unlocking a new phase of Very High Energy Electron (VHEE) research that could help shape the future of cancer treatment. These…
Prof Carsten P Welsch, Head of Accelerator Science at the University of Liverpool and Leader of the QUASAR Group based at the Cockcroft Institute, was presented with a 2026 MeetEngland…