QUASAR Group member awarded prize for best talk at the Cockcroft Institute Post-Graduate Conference 2025
We are pleased to announce that QUASAR Group member and EuPRAXIA Fellow Ana-Maria Guisao Betancur has been awarded best talk at this year’s Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Researcher Conference.
This important annual event gives students a forum to present their research and connect with peers and experienced researchers.
Held on 15th October at Daresbury Laboratory, the event brought together students from all four CI Universities - Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Strathclyde – and ASTeC, with 22 students joining from as far away as CERN. The students showcased their research across three talk sessions and a poster session.
Presentations covered a wide range of accelerator science topics, from radiobiology and femtosecond scale beam diagnostics to the UK XFEL and bright THz radiation, highlighting the breadth of the Cockcroft’s research portfolio.
Through her talk, entitled “Single-shot electron bunch profile monitor based on coherent transition radiation imaging,” Ana shared an overview of the design and current development status of a single-shot bunch length monitor prototype. The prototype utilizes a broadband spatial imaging system for coherent transition radiation (CTR) and has recently been installed at the MAX IV Short Pulse Facility (SPF). The discussion was focused on the preliminary results to date, in which features of the CTR images were used to study changes in the bunch length, with reference measurements provided by a transverse deflecting cavity.
Ana commented: “The conference was a great space to connect with the rest of the students working on different projects across the institute’s universities through their talks and posters, and an opportunity to chat with postdocs and other academics, resulting in interesting discussions. We also had a good time at the end of the day, eating pizza during the social event and trying an escape room in town.”
Congratulations!
For more information on the conference, you can visit the Indico page.