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Welcoming our latest Post Doctoral Researchers

We’re delighted to welcome three brilliant new postdoctoral researchers to the MaThRad team. Pedro Martín Chávez joins us from the University of Extremadura, where he completed his PhD on the asymptotic theory of branching models. His work focuses on stochastic modelling with applications to nuclear

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Advancing Stochastic Modelling for Safer Nuclear Reactor Operations

The MaThRad team is working to improve stochastic modelling in low-population reactor physics, tackling critical challenges in reactor start-up, shutdown, waste management, and nuclear security. When neutron populations are extremely low, traditional deterministic models break down, making it cruc

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Welcoming Four New Members to the MaThRad Research Team

We are thrilled to announce the addition of four new Post Doctoral researchers to the MaThRad team.  Maria Laura Pérez Lara joins the Warwick team. Maria has previously been working on assessment of alternative radiation therapy methods (proton beam therapy and boron neutron capture therapy) with se

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MaThRad explores research opportunities with the UK Atomic Energy Authority

In May 2024, members of the MaThRad team joined colleagues from the research teams at UKAEA Fusion research to explore initial connections and synergies, and look for possible future collaboration opportunity. Agenda and presentation slides (where available) James Buchanan, Head of Plasma Simula

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Unveiling the Future of Reactor Design: MaThRad’s Valeria Raffuzzi presents new results at PHYSOR24

Valeria Raffuzzi and MaThRad Co-Investigator, Prof. Eugene Shwageraus attended the International Conference on Reactor Physics PHYSOR24, taking place in San Francisco in April. The focus of the conference is on new reactor design and technology, as well as Monte Carlo and deterministic methods to m

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MaThRad Researcher Opportunity at Cambridge

We are delighted to announce that our partners in the Cambridge Nuclear Energy group are seeking a researcher to join their team. They are looking for software developers/researchers with experience of implementing physical models who are keen to understand radiation transport and Monte Carlo code d

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MaThRad and University of Extremadura collaborate on Spatial Branching Processes

MaThRad recently welcomed Pedro Martín Chávez, PhD student at the University of Extremadura, to work with the Warwick team on particle systems and measure-valued processes.  Pedro has been working closely with Andreas Kyprianou, Emma Horton and fellow MaThRad visitor Victor Rivero, to investigate ge

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Opportunity to join the MaThRad clinical team

We are delighted to announce that our Clinical partners at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are looking to a recruit a talented Radiotherapy Research Physicist to join their team of physicists, engineers and dosimetrists/technologists for an initial fixed-term 2-year research

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Inaugural MaThRad ECR Research Retreat

In November, a group of MaThRad post-docs and PhD students from Bath, Cambridge, and Warwick gathered at the National Physical Laboratory for the inaugural MaThRad ECR Research Retreat. This forum was designed not only as an exchange of high-level concepts but, more crucially, as a platform for posi

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Innovation Internship – Aurora Health Physics Services

We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a UK-based PhD student to undertake an Innovation Internship with MaThRad partner Aurora Health Physics Services (Aurora), one of the UK’s leading Radiation Protection Advisers. About Aurora Health Physics Services Aurora provides a range of rad

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