UK Nuclear Physics Early Career Research Forum 2026
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201 (Cockcroft Buliding)
201
Cockcroft Buliding
Room 201, Cockcroft Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ
Andy Briscoe
(University of Liverpool),
Jacob Heery
(University of Surrey)
Description
The 5th early-career researcher (ECR) forum for UK nuclear physics will be held in-person at the University of Brighton on the 16th of April, 2026. The event provides a unique forum for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from institutes around the UK to present their work, discuss new methods and cutting edge ideas, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers.
This will be an inclusive event and there will be no registration fee for attending. If you consider yourself to be an early-career researcher, you are welcome to attend. We do not currently anticipate the need to limit the number of attendees, however if this situation changes we will prioritise the in-person attendance of PhDs and PDRAs.
This page will be updated with new information as the program is formed.
This event is funded by the IOP Nuclear Physics Group.
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08:30
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09:00
Arrivals
Coffee+greetings
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09:00
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10:30
Session 1
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09:10
Low-energy nuclear physics in 2050? 20mSpeaker: Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)
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09:30
Nuclear Physics towards 2050: Experiments with Electron Beams 20mSpeaker: Patrick Achenbach (Mainz University)
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09:50
Recent Progress in Nuclear Structure Theory with Nuclear Energy Density Functionals 20mSpeaker: Dr Esra Yuksel (University of Surrey)
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10:30
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11:00
Break
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11:00
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12:00
Session 2
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11:00
How AWE uses the outputs from academic nuclear physics research 20mSpeaker: James Benstead
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11:20
From Diagnosis to Therapy: How Nuclear Physics Shapes Modern Nuclear Medicine. 20mSpeaker: Amit Nautiyal
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11:40
Nuclear physics industry collaboration - a case study with the security sector 20mSpeaker: David Sharp
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12:00
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13:30
Break: Lunch
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13:30
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15:00
Session 3: Presentations from IOP poster givers
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13:30
Determination of absolute gamma ray emission intensities and the half-life of Ho-166m 15mSpeaker: Arshjot Kaur (National Physical Laboratory)
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13:45
Measurement of Lambda_b production in pp collisions with ALICE 15mSpeaker: Chris Carr (University of Birmingham)
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14:00
Alpha-particle condensation in diluted neutron-rich oxygen nuclei 15mSpeaker: Miriam Davies (University of Surrey)
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14:15
LiquidO opaque scintillator radiation detectors for particle tracking 15mSpeaker: Max de Carlos Generowicz (University of Sussex)
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14:30
Prompt and delayed spectroscopy of 196At – installation ofthe novel detector SIGMA in the focal plane 15mSpeaker: Sneha Das (University of Liverpool)
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14:45
A new measurement of the 18F(p,α)15O reaction and its impact on novae observation 15mSpeaker: Guy Carter-Richardson (University of York)
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13:30
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15:00
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Break
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16:30
Session 4: Forum (open discussion)
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15:30
Preliminary Studies of Charged Pion Electroproduction on Deuterium 15mSpeaker: Kathleen Ramage (University of Glasgow)
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15:45
Athena Swan & EDI in Physics 15mSpeaker: Lisa Morrison (University of Surrey)
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16:00
Forum (open discussion) 30m
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17:30
Discussion & departures
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09:00