Professor Andrew Boston PhD, BSc(hons)
Reader Physics
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- Work email Andrew.Boston@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal WebsiteNuclear Physics Group
Research
Research Interest 1
Nuclear Structure Physics
Nuclear Medical Imaging/Nuclear Imaging
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
ENSAR2 - European Nuclear Science and Application Research 2
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
March 2016 - August 2021
A three-dimensional integrated gamma-ray and vision system
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
July 2016 - January 2020
Nuclear Physics Consolidated Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
October 2017 - March 2022
Capital Equipment 2018
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
October 2018 - March 2019
Sub pixel resolution in Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors for Low Dose Molecular Breast Imaging
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
March 2020 - October 2020
Imaging of prompt gamma emissions during proton cancer therapy for geometric and dosimetric verification
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
September 2015 - August 2017
Lifetimes of the TSD candidate bands in 157,158Er at ultra high spin
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
January 2009 - February 2009
AGATA the ultimate gamma-ray spectrometer.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
April 2004 - March 2008
Study of two-photon emission in 72Ge.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
September 2004 - February 2005
DTI TP: Portable gamma-ray spectrometer (DTI ref 10218).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
September 2005 - February 2009
Gamma-KEV: Imaging the invisible
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
November 2008 - October 2011
Trapped antihydrogen - towards spectroscopy.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
March 2006 - February 2010
AGATA - The Ultimate Gamma-ray spectrometer
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
March 2009 - October 2012
Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics Using (d,p) with n-rich Na Isotopes using the TIGRESS and SHARC arrays at TRIUMF
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
July 2009 - September 2009
Nuclear Physics Consolidated Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
August 2014 - December 2018
A centre for Advanced Digital Radiometric Instrumentation for Applied Nuclear Activities (ADRIANA)
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
February 2014 - July 2014
PROSPECTUS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
August 2009 - January 2012
Nuclear structure at the proton drip line and at ultra high spin
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
October 2007 - September 2009
KEL09/08 - Improved sensor systems for medical imaging
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
December 2009 - February 2011
In vivo imaging technologies to assess the efficacy and safety of RMTs
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC)
October 2013 - March 2015
European nuclear structure integrated infrastructure initiative (EURONS).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 2005 - December 2008
KEL09/10 - A gamma camera imaging system for radioactive materials
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
April 2010 - June 2011
Nuclear Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
August 2008 - August 2011
Advanced Compton-geometry gamma radiation imaging for radionuclide measurement in soils and geomaterials
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL (NERC)
March 2014 - June 2015
Imaging and Detection of Radioactive Material - Portable Gamma Ray Imaging Spectrometer (PGRIS)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
August 2013 - July 2015
Consolidated nuclear physics grant 2011
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
August 2011 - July 2015
Improvement of the performance of germanium detectors using pulse shape analysis
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
May 2014 - August 2017
Liverpool STFC IPS Fellowship
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
October 2012 - April 2017
Improvement of the sensitivity of germanium detectors for radioactive waste assay
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
October 2012 - December 2013
Exploring the limits of nuclear existence for heavy proton-rich nuclei
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
December 2009 - May 2013
Detection of explosive substances by tomographic inspection using neutron and gamma-ray spectroscopy (DISTINGUISH).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC)
January 2006 - July 2009
Nuclear structure and astrophysics using (d,p) with Na isotopes using the TIGRESS and SHARC arrays at TRIUMF
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
June 2010 - September 2010
Nuclear Physics Rolling Grants 2013 (equipment bid)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
January 2014 - March 2014
DSAM Lifetimes of the SD and TSD bands in 154Er at ultra high spin
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
September 2009 - November 2009
Studies of neutron-deficient nuclei utilising the EXOGAM gamma-ray spectrometer.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)
October 2004 - September 2007