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Jonathon Coleman

Professor Jonathon Coleman
PhD, MInstP

Research

Atom Interferometry

In 2010, I started with Martin Perl towards the experimental detection of Dark Energy using Atom interferometry.

I am currently developing atom interferometry devices with NPL.

Compact Neutrino Detectors

Neutrino detection systems for security and non-proliferation applications.

Experimental Particle Physics

Radiation and Particle detector design, construction, and operation, Large Volume Data Handling and analysis, Parallel Processing Systems, neutrino physics, fundamental symmetries of nature,

Research grants

Hyper Kamiokande Construction

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2022 - March 2026

Monitoring Sr90 with VIDARR

NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LTD (UK)

February 2022 - September 2024

Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2022

UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

October 2022 - September 2025

LIVERPOOL REQUEST FOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS 2022

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

April 2023 - September 2025

Hyper Kamiokande Construction

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2021 - March 2023

AION: A UK Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

April 2021 - March 2025

Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2019 - September 2025

Particle Physics Consolidated award

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2015 - September 2019

The continuation of development for the MAGIS-100 experiment

UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USA)

May 2019 - April 2020

Capital Equipment

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2018 - March 2019

Navigation Simulation Study – Response to ITT Technical Proposal

DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)

March 2019 - December 2021

AIT / WATCHMAN: Year One

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

November 2018 - December 2024

An Upgraded Atom Interferometer for Dark Contents of the Vacuum Searches

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

December 2017 - November 2019

A 100-meter Quantum Sensor

UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USA)

October 2017 - September 2018

Remote react monitoring

HIGHER EDUCATION FUND COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND (UK)

April 2016 - July 2016

Evaluating the Potential for Quantum Sensors in Navigation

UK NATIONAL QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME (UK)

August 2016 - October 2017

Monitoring nuclear reactors for saveguarding purposes with T2K technology

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

August 2014 - February 2016

Modular Detection System for Special Nuclear Material (MODES-SNM)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

January 2012 - June 2014

A Table Top Experiment for Direct Detection of the Dark Content of the Vacuum such as Dark Energy uding Atom Interferometry

ROYAL SOCIETY

May 2014 - April 2015

Reactor Anti-Neutrino Monitoring R.A.M. -- Plutonium Accounting using T2K ECal Technology

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

July 2012 - January 2014

Royal Society University Research Fellowship Renewal

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

October 2014 - September 2019

Reactor Anti-neutrino Monitoring. Remote, non-intrusive commercial reactor operation and plutonium usage monitoring through existing antineutrino counting technology.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

April 2011 - March 2014

Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations (LAGUNA-LBNO).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

September 2011 - August 2014

A measurement of Neutrino Oscillation and of the Mixing Angle Theta_13 with T2K

ROYAL SOCIETY

October 2009 - September 2014

    Research collaborations

    NPL - Time & Frequency Division

    Development of Atom Interferometry and its Applications