Academic staff

Below are the academic staff members within the Plasma Physics & Fusion research group. Click on a name to see more information about that particular member of staff.

Hugh Barr

Dr Hugh Barr

Propagation of relativistically intense laser pulses, Parametric plasma instabilities

Kieran Gibson

Dr Kieran Gibson

Experimental studies of tokamak edge plasmas, Diagnostic development for magnetically confined plasmas.

Geoff Pert

Professor Geoff Pert

Laser ablation simulation, XUV/X-ray laser development, Laser produced plasma theory

Erik Wagenaars

Erik Wagenaars

Low-temperature plasma experiments, optical plasma diagnostic development

Ben Dudson

Dr Ben Dudson

Experiments and modelling of tokamak edge plasmas

Deborah O'Connell

Deborah O'Connell

Fundamentals of low-temperature plasma physics and their applications, including plasma medicine

Greg Tallents

Professor Greg Tallents

EUV/X-ray laser development, Laser ablation, Laser produced plasmas

Howard Wilson

Professor Howard Wilson

Magnetic confinement fusion

Timo Gans

Timo Gans

Low-temperature plasmas: diagnostics, numerical simulations, technological applications

John Pasley

Dr John Pasley

ICF, Fast Ignition, Radiation Hydrodynamics, Hohlraum Modeling, Shock Waves and Implosion Hydrodynamics, Physics of Ignition and Thermonuclear Burn

Roddy Vann

Roddy Vann

Theory of magnetically confined plasmas

Nigel Woolsey

Dr Nigel Woolsey

X-ray scattering in plasmas, Laboratory astrophysics