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Curriculum Vitae

• Subject Knowledge Zone Topic

  • Quantum physics

• Current Job

  I am an Instrument Scientist at the ISIS Pulsed Neutorn and Muon source. I help visiting scientists perform experiment on the Larmor beamline. Larmor is a neutron instrument for measuring a wide range of small lengths in samples. Depending on our setup, we can go from 25 microns (about the thickness of a single wool fibre) down to 0.001 Angstroms (100 times smaller than an atom).

• Employer

  The ISIS Pulsed Neutorn and Muon source is a research facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire.  Protons are accelerated to 84% the speed of light, then smashed into a tungsten target.  The protons smash the nuclei of the tungsten atoms, allowing the neutrons to escape.  We then use these neutrons to perform measurements on scientific samples.