Two more LIV.DAD students pass their PhDs
Two students in the QUASAR group who are also both part of the LIV.DAT CDT have successfully defended their theses and passed their PhDs
Luana Parsons Franca completed her PhD on “Secondary Emission Monitor (SEM) optimisation at the CERN fixed target beamlines” as part of the final cohort of LIV.DAT students. Luana spent two years at CERN as in order to complete this PhD. She was supervised by Professor Carsten Welsch, Dr Hao Zhang and Dr Federico Roncarolo (CERN).
Luana’s examiners were Professor Oliver Kester from TRIUMF, a recognized expert in radioactive ion beam facilities, and Professor Rodi Herzberg, a nuclear physicist from Liverpool who is well aware of the challenges linked to instrumentation and associated simulation studies.
Cristian Bontoiu was an associate student on the LIV.DAT program, thereby benefitting from the training available as part of this program while being funded from elsewhere. He had his PhD viva recently on his thesis about ‘Electron Acceleration in Carbon Nanotubes’ and passed successfully.
The external examiner Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI, Switzerland) and internal examiner Prof Christos Touramanis were impressed by the quality work of Cristian.
We congratulate Luana and Cristian on these fantastic achievements!