NSD’s Thomas Thuillier, the new ECR ion source group leader.
NSD is excited to welcome Thomas Thuillier, who joined as head of the ECR ion source group at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. Previously Dr. Thuillier was a Senior Research Engineer at the Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie in Grenoble, France where he served as the Accelerator and Ion Source Pole Deputy Leader and the Ion Source Team Physics Leader. He brings to NSD over 24 years of experience in Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources.
Congratulations to Peter Jacobs, a Senior Scientist in the NSD Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program, who was honored by two international awards. Peter received a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship, granted to outstanding international researchers to undertake a flexible sabbatical period at a UK institution to build and develop international collaborations and networks. Peter will visit the University of Liverpool to study Novel Approaches the Quark-Gluon Plasma.
Dr. Jacobs was also selected for a Humboldt Research Award, recognizing outstanding lifetime achievements in research and teaching. Award winners are invited to conduct a research project of their choice at a research institution in Germany.
The 3rd release of the Let’s Get Nuclear Podcast is available! In this episode, NSD researchers discuss the future of cancer treatment, and a possible shift from treatments using traditional beta-emitting isotopes to ones using alpha emitters. The higher-energy alpha particle approach is more potent, but uses such small doses as to be nearly invisible to current imaging technology.
NSD hosted visitors from the UK Home Office and the Atomic Weapons Establishment to discuss opportunities for future collaboration in the area of advanced radiation detection.
