Welcome to the UWS Nuclear Physics
Research Group web pages
Last updated on Sunday 19 July, 2009 7:22 PM

These are the new web pages of the Experimental Nuclear
Physics Research Group at UWS. By clicking on the links on the
left hand side, you can find out more about who we are and
what we do. On this first page, you will find news items - so
please check back regularly!

Professor Witek Nazarewicz
receives honorary PhD from UWS
Saturday 18 July, 2009 8:44 PM

On Wednesday 8th July, Professor Witek Nazarewicz attended the
UWS graduation ceremony at the Coats Memorial Church in Paisley
to receive his honorary PhD. Professor Nazarewicz is pictured above (centre) together with Professor Seamus McDaid, Principal (left) and Professor Roddy Williamson, Dean of the School of Science and Technology (right). Following the ceremony, Witek and members of
his family attended a celebration dinner with the UWS nuclear-physics group. Profesor Nazarewicz was also recently appointed as a Visiting Professor in the nuclear-physics group at UWS.

New Group Members...
Saturday 18 July, 2009 8:48 PM

On the 1st July, Dr. Steven Pain, Dr. Daniele Mengoni, and Stephanie Brien joined our group. Steven is a new lecturer in the group, who was appointed earlier in 2009. Daniele is working as a PDRA funded by the UWS AGATA grant from the STFC. Daniele will spend a large fraction of his time at the Legnaro Laboratory in Italy, helping to set-up and run AGATA. Stephanie (pictured left) is a new PhD student who graduated from UWS in summer 2009. Stephanie will be supervised by Steven Pain and will work on transfer reactions around N=82 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We have recently appointed another new PhD student, Valentina Liberati, from La Sapienza (Roma); Valentina will join us on 1st September.

Join our group! Two fully-funded
PhD studentships available
Sunday 19 July, 2009 7:19 PM

We are presently accepting applications for two fully-funded
PhD studentships within our research group. One of the
studentships will start right away (spring/summer 2009) and
the other will start in September 2009. For more details contact
one of the group members (Chapman, Smith, Spohr, or Pain)
listed on the right-hand side of this page, and download the
PDF file below: UWS-PhD-Advert.pdf