Profile

Career

Qualifications

MSc (UCD, Ireland); PhD (DCU, Ireland)

Summary of expertise

• Low temperature plasmas
• Plasma diagnostics
• Applications of technological plasmas, including plasma medicine

Previous posts

• 04/2010 – 05/2011 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
• 04/2008 – 03/2010 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
• 01/2007 – 03/2008 Senior Scientist, Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Centre for Plasma Science and Technology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• 09/2004 – 12/2006 Post-doctoral researcher, Institute for Plasma and Atomic Physics, Faculty for Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Committees

• IoP Plasma Group Committee member
• European Physical Society (EPS) Conference on Plasma Physics 2010, LoC Scientific Secretary
• 30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG) 2011 co-Chair LoC
• International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas (APiP) 2011 LoC member

Research

Overview

Research group: Plasma Physics and Fusion

Research interests

• Low temperature plasmas: low pressure rf plasmas, atmospheric pressure plasma jets, microplasmas
• Technological applications of plasmas, including plasma medicine
• Plasma diagnostics

Research group(s)

• Dr Kari Niemi (Research fellow)
• Laura Cox (PhD student, Queen’s University Belfast)
• Mahmoud Alkawareek (PhD student, Queen’s University Belfast)