Professional activities

Selected Professional Activities

Conference Role

Octupole-deformed nuclei relevant to EDM searches at Topical Program on Electric Dipole Moments, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Michigan, USA, 2019) (Conference Role)
Nuclear pear shapes studied with radioactive ion beams at International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2019), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Glasgow, UK, 2019) (Conference Role)
Nuclear structure physics with radioactive ion beams at HIE-ISOLDE at IV International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Venice, Italy, 2019) (Conference Role)
In-source laser spectroscopy of mercury isotopes at ISOLDE at NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2016, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2016) (Conference Role)
Shape coexistence in the light lead region at Frontier of gamma-ray spectroscopy (Gamma15), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Osaka, Japan, 2015) (Conference Role)
Pear-shaped nuclei measured via Coulomb excitation at European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC2015), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Groningen, Netherlands, 2015) (Conference Role)
Nuclear structure goes pear-shaped at Nuclear Structure Conference 2014 (NS2014), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Vancouver, Canada, 2014) (Conference Role)

Conference Roles

HIE-ISOLDE Physics Workshop 2023 (Institute of Physics, London, 2023)
Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Avignon, France, 2023)
Nuclear Structure 2024, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA, 2024)
NUSTAR Annual Meeting, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, 2024)
International Symposium on Nuclear Science, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2024)
ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Workshop 2020 (Zoom, 2020)
Octupole collectivity across the nuclear chart at Vth Topical Workshop on Modern Aspects in Nuclear Structure, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Bormio, Italy, 2020)
Physics at HIE-ISOLDE with a 2 GeV upgrade at ISOLDE - EPIC Workshop, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Geneva, Switzerland, 2019)
Octupole-deformed nuclei relevant to EDM searches at Topical Program on Electric Dipole Moments, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Michigan, USA, 2019)
Nuclear pear shapes studied with radioactive ion beams at International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2019), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Glasgow, UK, 2019)
Nuclear structure physics with radioactive ion beams at HIE-ISOLDE at IV International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Venice, Italy, 2019)
Miniball at HIE-ISOLDE at NUSTAR Meeting 2019, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2019)
Investigation of the octupole degree of freedom with Coulomb excitation at Shapes and Symmetries in Nuclei: Experiment to Theory (SSNET’18), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Gif-sur-Yvette, 2018)
Correlated error analysis in Gosia at 3rd GOSIA Workshop, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Warsaw, Poland, 2018)
Nuclear structure physics at HIE-ISOLDE at Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Group Conference 2018, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Paisley, UK, 2018)
Latest physics results from HIE-ISOLDE at Colloque GANIL 2017, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Amboise, France, 2017)
Exotic shapes: Coulomb excitation of radioactive-ion beams at XXXV Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Ruciane Nida, Piaski, poland, 2017)
Exploiting re-accelerated radioactive ion beams at HIE-ISOLDE at NUSPIN 2017, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2017)
In-source laser spectroscopy of mercury isotopes at ISOLDE at NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2016, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2016)
Shape coexistence in the light lead region at Frontier of gamma-ray spectroscopy (Gamma15), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Osaka, Japan, 2015)
Pear-shaped nuclei measured via Coulomb excitation at European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC2015), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Groningen, Netherlands, 2015)
Studying shape coexistence above Z = 82 at Isospin, STructure, Reactions and energy Of Symmetry (ISTROS 2015), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Častá-Papiernička, Slovakia, 2015)
Nuclear structure goes pear-shaped at Nuclear Structure Conference 2014 (NS2014), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Vancouver, Canada, 2014)
A postcard from Miniball: Recent results from REX-ISOLDE at European Gamma and Ancillary Detectors Network (EGAN 2014), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Darmstadt, Germany, 2014)
RDDS lifetime measurements in 184,186Hg at Shape coexistence across the chart of nuclides (York, UK, 2013)
Octupole collectivity studied using radioactive-ion beams at Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Group Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (York, UK, 2013)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

STFC Nuclear Physics Grants Panel (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 2022 - 2025)
Resource coordinator for the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Collaboration (University of Manchester, 2022 - 2025)
UK Representative on the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee (CERN) (European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2020 - 2023)
UK representative on the Miniball Steering Committee (European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2018 - present)

Grant Application Assessments

External Post-submission (United States Department of Energy, 2020)
External Post-submission (United States Department of Energy, 2019)

Media Appearances

Celebrating 50 years of physics at ISOLDE, Facebook Live (October 2017)
Scientists Want to Do Some Crazy Physics Using Scrapped Medical Equipment, Gizmodo (April 2017)
I Asked 12 Scientists: What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know?, Buzzfeed (August 2015)
Going pear-shaped: Google hangout at CERN, Google Hangout (May 2013)

Professional Body Memberships

European Physical Society (Individual Member, 2015 - present)
Institute of Physics (Associate Member, 2008 - present)

Publication Reviews

Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physical Review Letters, Pre-publication, 2024 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physics Letters B, Pre-publication, 2024 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2023 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physics Letters B, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2022 - present)
Peer review, Invited (European Physical Journal A, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physical Review C, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
Peer review, Invited (European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
Peer review (Nuclear Physics A, Pre-publication, 2019 - present)
Peer review, Invited (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, Pre-publication, 2020)
Peer review (EPJ Web of Conferences, Pre-publication, 2019)
Peer review (Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics, Pre-publication, 2018 - present)
Peer review (Acta Physica Polonica, Series B: Elementary Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Statistical Physics, Theory of Relativity, Field Theory, Pre-publication, 2015 - present)