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Growth areas for femtosecond lasers in medical device manufacturing
published on the Laser Systems Europe website on November 22, 2022.
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November 2022
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October 2022
I am delighted and honoured to be the 2022 recipient of the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize for public engagement in physics. This has been awarded to me by the UK’s Institute of Physics ‘for work in communicating science to a wide variety of audiences and for positive representations of scientists from non-traditional backgrounds’.
You can read the full citation for the award on the IOP website here.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of the kind people who have helped and supported me with my various projects over the years.
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20 September 2022
Appearing on The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry on BBC Radio 4 talking about fusion energy in Episode 6 Series 20 The Puzzle of the Plasma Doughnut alongside Dr Melanie Windridge and Dr Arthur Turrell. To hear the programme please click on the link.
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1 September 2022
My first solo popular science book Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth was published by Icon Books on September 1st 2022. Read more about the book on the publisher’s website. Buy a copy on Amazon US or Amazon UK.
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August 2022
My book review From tick tock to TikTok: how humans keep track of time which discusses Chad Orzel’s A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks appeared in the August 2022 issue of Physics World and was also published online on August 8, 2022.
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Spring 2022
The publication date for my first solo popular science book has now been announced. Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth will be published by Icon Books on September 1st 2022. Read more about the book on the publisher’s website.
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April 2022
Invited blog article
How solid state physics is helping us adapt to a COVID world
published on the Routledge website as part of their Science & Everyday Life blog on April 25, 2022.
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Autumn 2021
Guest Lecturer on a Science Writing and Communication Module for physics students at King’s College London, 2021.
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Summer and Autumn 2021
Writing two new books.
The companion website for the second edition of my book Understanding Solid State Physics went live.