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Liam Gaffney

Dr Liam Gaffney

Lecturer
Physics
Part of
School of Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering

Contact

Liam.Gaffney@liverpool.ac.uk

+44 (0)151 795 1382

Professional activities

I am the spokesperson of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Collaboration at CERN and hold a number of other positions in international collaborations. I regularly review articles for journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods, and European Physical Journal A.

I am a member of the Institute of Physics and act as the Treasurer to the Nuclear Physics Group. I also act as sectratary to the UK Nuclear Physics Academics Forum, coordinating meetings and liaising with STFC on behalf of the community in the UK. Within STFC, I am a member of the Nuclear Physics Grants Panel.

Conference Roles

  • International Symposium on Nuclear Science, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2024)
  • Nuclear Structure 2024, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA, 2024)
  • NUSTAR Annual Meeting, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, 2024)
  • Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Avignon, France, 2023)
  • HIE-ISOLDE Physics Workshop 2023 (Institute of Physics, London, 2023)
  • ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Workshop 2020 (Zoom, 2020)
  • Octupole collectivity across the nuclear chart at Vth Topical Workshop on Modern Aspects in Nuclear Structure, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Bormio, Italy, 2020)
  • Physics at HIE-ISOLDE with a 2 GeV upgrade at ISOLDE - EPIC Workshop, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Geneva, Switzerland, 2019)
  • Octupole-deformed nuclei relevant to EDM searches at Topical Program on Electric Dipole Moments, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Michigan, USA, 2019)
  • Nuclear pear shapes studied with radioactive ion beams at International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2019), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Glasgow, UK, 2019)
  • Nuclear structure physics with radioactive ion beams at HIE-ISOLDE at IV International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Venice, Italy, 2019)
  • Miniball at HIE-ISOLDE at NUSTAR Meeting 2019, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2019)
  • Investigation of the octupole degree of freedom with Coulomb excitation at Shapes and Symmetries in Nuclei: Experiment to Theory (SSNET’18), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Gif-sur-Yvette, 2018)
  • Correlated error analysis in Gosia at 3rd GOSIA Workshop, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Warsaw, Poland, 2018)
  • Nuclear structure physics at HIE-ISOLDE at Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Group Conference 2018, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Paisley, UK, 2018)
  • Latest physics results from HIE-ISOLDE at Colloque GANIL 2017, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Amboise, France, 2017)
  • Exotic shapes: Coulomb excitation of radioactive-ion beams at XXXV Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Ruciane Nida, Piaski, poland, 2017)
  • Exploiting re-accelerated radioactive ion beams at HIE-ISOLDE at NUSPIN 2017, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2017)
  • In-source laser spectroscopy of mercury isotopes at ISOLDE at NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2016, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2016)
  • Shape coexistence in the light lead region at Frontier of gamma-ray spectroscopy (Gamma15), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Osaka, Japan, 2015)
  • Pear-shaped nuclei measured via Coulomb excitation at European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC2015), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Groningen, Netherlands, 2015)
  • Studying shape coexistence above Z = 82 at Isospin, STructure, Reactions and energy Of Symmetry (ISTROS 2015), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Častá-Papiernička, Slovakia, 2015)
  • Nuclear structure goes pear-shaped at Nuclear Structure Conference 2014 (NS2014), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Vancouver, Canada, 2014)
  • A postcard from Miniball: Recent results from REX-ISOLDE at European Gamma and Ancillary Detectors Network (EGAN 2014), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2014)
  • RDDS lifetime measurements in 184,186Hg at Shape coexistence across the chart of nuclides (York, UK, 2013)
  • Octupole collectivity studied using radioactive-ion beams at Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Group Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (York, UK, 2013)

Examination Roles

  • University of Surrey, Nuclear Physics (PhD, 2025)
  • The University of Manchester, Nuclear Physics (PhD, 2024)
  • University of the West of Scotland, Nuclear Physics (PhD, 2024)
  • Australian National University, Nuclear Physics (PhD, 2022)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Spokesperson of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Collaboration (CERN) (European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2026 - 2028)
  • STFC Nuclear Physics Grants Panel (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 2022 - 2028)
  • Resource coordinator for the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Collaboration (University of Manchester, 2022 - 2025)
  • UK Representative on the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee (CERN) (European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2020 - 2023)
  • UK representative on the Miniball Steering Committee (European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2018 - present)

Media Appearances

  • Celebrating 50 years of physics at ISOLDE, Facebook Live (October 2017)
  • Scientists Want to Do Some Crazy Physics Using Scrapped Medical Equipment, Gizmodo (April 2017)
  • I Asked 12 Scientists: What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know?, Buzzfeed (August 2015)
  • Going pear-shaped: Google hangout at CERN, Google Hangout (May 2013)

Professional Body Memberships

  • European Physical Society (Individual Member, 2015 - present)
  • Institute of Physics (Associate Member, 2008 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Peer review, Invited (Physical Review Letters, Pre-publication, 2024 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physics Letters B, Pre-publication, 2024 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2023 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2022 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physics Letters B, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (European Physical Journal A, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
  • Peer review (Nuclear Physics A, Pre-publication, 2019 - present)
  • Peer review, Invited (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, Pre-publication, 2020)
  • Peer review (EPJ Web of Conferences, Pre-publication, 2019)
  • Peer review (Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics, Pre-publication, 2018 - present)
  • Peer review (Acta Physica Polonica, Series B: Elementary Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Statistical Physics, Theory of Relativity, Field Theory, Pre-publication, 2015 - present)