Our research students
We are proud of research students' achievements - and are delighted to introduce you to them here. They are investigating cutting-edge technologies - and pushing back the boundaries of what is possible.
Max Bishop
Max splits his time between º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
He is investigating new detector technologies to be used in X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs).
Joel Clayton
Joel is developing portable X-ray backscatter systems which will help to decommission legacy nuclear sites safely and effectively.
Andrew Farnworth
Andrew is using pixellated compound semiconductor detectors to enable dual-energy parathyroid scintigraphy in the operating room.
Raza Shah
Raza is developing new materials for radiation detectors based on halide perovskites that are cheaper to process and are efficient photovoltaic materials.
Rhys Turner
Rhys is investigating microcalorimeters – based on superconductor technology – to create ultra-resolution spectrometers for applications such as nuclear forensics.
Alumni
Yangfan Jiang
Yangfan graduated in 2024. Her thesis was titled "Applications of Artificial Intelligence methods in improving portable gamma camera performance for nuclear medicine". Her research applied machine learning techniques to portable nuclear medicine with the goal of automating feature registration in stereo gamma images.