Professional Activities
Selected Professional Activities
Examination Role
- University of Jyväskylä, PhD Physics (2024 - 2025) (Examination Role)
External Administrative or Committee Role
- National Physical Laboratory Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC), Invited (National Physical Laboratory, 2023 - present) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
- Periodic Quality Review of University College Dublin School of Physics, Invited (University College Dublin, 2024 - 2025) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
- UKRI Interdisciplinary Assesement College Chair (UK Research and Innovation, 2023 - 2025) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
- STFC Technology Department Review Board Chair, Invited (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 2023 - 2024) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
- NuPECC Long Range Plan Working Group (2016 - 2018) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
Grant Application Assessment
- External Post-submission (UK Research and Innovation, 2023 - 2024) (Grant Application Assessment)
- External Post-submission (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2021 - 2024) (Grant Application Assessment)
- External Post-submission (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2023) (Grant Application Assessment)
Media Appearance
- "Inside Sellafield" - Consultant and Script Advisor, BBC4 (Media Appearance)
Conference Roles
- Enhanced Waste Assay, invited plenary talk , by Invitation (2nd International Conference on Dosimetry and Applications, University of Surrey, 2016)
- Point-like contact germanium detectors for high-resolution gamma spectroscopy, invited plenary talk, TASCA Workshop, by Invitation (GSI, 2015)
- Novel techniques to enhance gamma-ray spectrometry for the nuclear industry, invited plenary talk, Conference on Applied Radiation Metrology, by Invitation (CARM2015, National Physical Laboratory, 2015)
- Invited plenary talk "A new detector for gamma-ray spectroscopy and imaging", by Invitation (Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Conference, 2015)
- Public Lecture "Gamma-rays: imaging the invisible", by Invitation (STFC Daresbury Laboratory Talking Science, 2015)
- "The role of nuclear physics in medicine", by Invitation (STFC RAL Teach the Teachers , 2014)
- "Imaging the Invisible", by Invitation (IOP Teachers Conference, 2014)
- What GAMOS can do for nuclear physicists, by Invitation (Institute of Physics meeting on Geant4 in Nuclear Physics, 2013)
- An Introduction to Broad Energy Germanium detectors, by Invitation (University of Jyvaskyla, 2013)
- Compton imaging with semiconductor detectors, by Invitation (Canberra, USA, 2013)
- "Broad Energy Germanium (BEGe detectors)", by Invitation (University of York Nuclear Physics Seminar, 2013)
- Invited Seminar - "Compton Imaging: From Concept to Application", by Invitation (IFAE, Barcelona, 2011)
Examination Roles
- University of Jyväskylä, PhD Physics (2024 - 2025)
- University of Bristol, MRes Physics (MPhil, 2023)
- University of Surrey, PhD Physics (2023)
- University of Birmingham, PhD Physics (2022)
- University of the West of Scotland, MRes Physics (MPhil, 2021)
- University of York, PhD physics (2021)
- Lancaster University, PhD Engineering (2019)
- University of York, PhD Physics (2019)
- University of Glasgow, PhD Physics (2018)
- University of Surrey, PhD Physics (2017)
- University of Glasgow, PhD Candidate (2018)
- University of Surrey, PhD candidate (2018)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- National Physical Laboratory Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC), Invited (National Physical Laboratory, 2023 - present)
- Periodic Quality Review of University College Dublin School of Physics, Invited (University College Dublin, 2024 - 2025)
- UKRI Interdisciplinary Assesement College Chair (UK Research and Innovation, 2023 - 2025)
- STFC Technology Department Review Board Chair, Invited (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 2023 - 2024)
- IOP Nuclear Physics Group Committee (Institute of Physics, 2015 - 2019)
- NuPECC Long Range Plan Working Group (2016 - 2018)
- IOP Physics Communicators Group Committee (Institute of Physics, 2014 - 2016)
Grant Application Assessments
- External Post-submission (UK Research and Innovation, 2023 - 2024)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2022 - 2024)
- External Post-submission (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2021 - 2024)
- External Post-submission (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2023)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2023)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2019 - 2023)
- External Post-submission (UK Research and Innovation, 2022)
- External Post-submission (UK Research and Innovation, 2021 - 2022)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2020 - 2022)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2018)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2017 - 2018)
- External Post-submission (Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), 2016 - 2018)
Media Appearances
- "Inside Sellafield" - Consultant and Script Advisor, BBC4
- Gamma ray method takes first step towards enhanced medical imaging precision, Chemistry World (2016)
- Interview for "The half life of strontium 90" programme, BBC Radio 4 (2015)
- How do we know that things are really made of atoms, BBC Earth Online (2015)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Kromek Ltd (2012 - present)
- Canberra Industries (2012 - present)
- Institute of Physics
- STEM Ambassador
Professional Body Memberships
- Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2014 - present)
- Institute of Physics (IOP) (Member Institute of Physics, 2007 - present)
Publication Reviews
- Peer Reviewer, Invited (Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Pre-publication, 2023 - present)
- Peer Reviewer (IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Pre-publication, 2012 - present)
- Peer Reviewer (IOP Journal of Instrumentation, Pre-publication, 2013 - 2023)
- Peer Reviewer, Invited (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Pre-publication, 2009 - present)