Personal Statement
I am a member of the Condensed Matter Physics research cluster and the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy. My research focuses on the development and characterisation of novel semiconductors and quantum materials with potential applications in energy technologies.

I obtained a Master of Engineering from the Grande École européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux in Strasbourg in 2005, followed by a PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin in 2009. My doctoral research focused on the growth of single crystals and investigation of the electronic properties of concentrated magnetic semiconductors.

I then joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Liverpool as a postdoctoral researcher, where I contributed to the development of room-temperature multiferroic materials, with results published in Nature and Science. In 2012, I was appointed Lecturer in Physics at the University of Liverpool and joined the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018.

My research combines single crystal growth, epitaxial thin film deposition, and measurement of magnetic, thermal, and electronic transport properties to investigate and engineer novel materials for sustainable technologies. This includes:

1) Complex magnetic materials, such as multiferroics, magnetocalorics, and skyrmion-lattice hosts;

2) Correlated oxides, including transparent conductors and thermoelectrics;

3) Topological semimetals and related quantum materials.

Personal Statement
Professor Andreopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1974. He attended the University of Athens receiving a BSc in Physics in 1996, a Master's degree in Nuclear and Particle Physics in 1998, and a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics in 2003. In 2003 he joined the Particle Physics Department of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory as a post-doctoral researcher, and in 2007 he was promoted to a Scientist position. In 2014 he joined the Physics Department of the University of Liverpool as a faculty member, in a joint appointment with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Since 2018 he holds a Chair in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Liverpool.

Professor Andreopoulos has been working on accelerator-based neutrino physics for the past 30 years. Between 1996 and 2008, he worked on neutrino experiments at Fermilab in U.S., where he was involved in the first direct observation of the tau neutrino by the DONuT experiment and the confirmation of neutrino oscillations by the MINOS experiment. In the decade that followed, he played a key role in precision measurements of neutrino oscillations in the T2K experiment in Japan, leading an analysis group (VALOR) that contributed to all published oscillation results between 2010-2020. Currently, Professor Andreopoulos works at the SBND experiment in the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino program where he is involved in a broad neutrino physics exploitation program based on the LArTPC neutrino detection technology. He is also active in the JUNO experiment in China, where he in involved in atmospheric neutrino studies aiming to enhance the neutrino mass ordering sensitivity of the experiment. Professor Andreopoulos is renowned for his phenomenological work and contributions in computer simulations of neutrino interactions, and he is the spokesperson of the GENIE collaboration producing a well-known event generator used by all neutrino experiments. His work extends to the novel field of Quantum Computing where, in collaboration with scientists from the Fermilab Quantum Institute, he explores the use of quantum processors for neutrino interaction calculations.

Professor Andreopoulos has contributed to more than 150 scientific papers with over 20,000 citations, and he is a co-recipient (with the T2K collaboration) of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Research Overview
Professor Andreopoulos’ research is primarily focussed on precision measurements of neutrino mixing and new physics searches in the intensity frontier, neutrino interaction phenomenology and quantum information science.

Personal Statement
My work focuses on designing functional materials for energy applications, primarily photovoltaic, water splitting and battery applications, and translate them into devices.

Since the begging of my education, I realised that this is complex problem which requires cross-disciplinary knowledge. Thus, I endeavoured in an unconventional training experience, building a track record at the interface between inorganic chemistry and condensed matter physics, but also incorporating aspects of device physics and understanding of the theoretical framework for materials discovery. To address these research challenges, I worked across disciplines and working environment, from chemistry at the University of Sassari, to physics at Trinity College Dublin to engineer at Bell Labs-Nokia, and finally to National Laboratories, firstly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as Postdoctoral Researcher Physics and later at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where I held a staff position as Chemist Project Scientist. From 2021 to 2025 I held a position first as Lecturer and then promoted to Senior Lecturer in Experimental Physics at Newcastle University.

Since December 2025 I joined the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool as Senior Lecturer and Future Leaders Fellow to grow the field of in-operando X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy for the characterisation of solid-liquid interfaces.

Personal Statement
As a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, my research interests span all aspects of imaging, image processing and image analysis. This includes medical imaging (biophysics), scanning probe microscopy of atoms and molecules (nanophysics), microscopy of earth materials (geophysics) and astrophotography.

Research Overview
As a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, my research interests span all aspects of imaging, image processing and image analysis. This includes medical imaging (biophysics), scanning probe microscopy of atoms and molecules (nanophysics), microscopy of earth materials (geophysics) and astrophotography.
 

Personal Statement
Eadem mutata resurgo
(Collège de 'Pataphysique)

Research Overview
I am a member of the Nuclear Physics research group where I lead the development of high-resolution germanium semiconductor detectors for nuclear structure physics and applications of societal benefit. My research strategy is to develop the key instrumentation and analysis techniques needed to realise the core blue sky nuclear science programme. This development work (driven by the AGATA project) has established a world leading capability to design, build and characterise gamma-ray sensors.

Personal Statement
I am a member of the Nuclear Physics group at the University. My current research involves the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA), and imaging for medical, security and environmental assaying.

Personal Statement
I was born in Pescia on July 1994. In 2013 I got my scientific High School Diploma in Montecatini Terme, a small town in Tuscany. In September 2013 I started my undergraduate studies in Pisa. In 2017 I got my BS in Physics, with the thesis entitled “La scoperta del Positrone”. In the same year I started by MS on Fundamental Interactions. During the work on my Master thesis I had the opportunity to spend 2 months at Fermilab to work at the Laser System for the experiment “Muon g-2, E989”. I got my Master Degree in 2019 with the thesis entitled “Study of the calorimeter gain fluctuations of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab” under the guide of my supervisor Graziano Venanzoni. My PhD project, based on high precision physics beyond the Standard Model, starts from the work done during the MS Thesis and it is finalized to measuring the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon at 140 ppb, that showed in the previous experiment a discrepancy with the Standard Model by 3.8 sigma. In particular, I work on data analysis to reach the final goal of E989 in terms of systematic error, equal to 100 ppb. In addition to Physics I love to play acoustic guitar, listen music and cook.

Research Overview
I spent the last 4 years of experience at the g-2 experiment in which I covered two main roles.
The first one is dedicated to the laser calibration system of the calorimeter detectors. To take under control the systematic related to
calorimeter gain fluctuations in the g-2 experiment at Fermilab a dedicated laser system has been developed to correct for this effect. During the Master thesis I developed a method to extract offline the recovery time of calorimeters power supplies, caused by the gain fluctuations due to the large flux of particle hitting the detectors in the few micro seconds after the muons injection in the ring. These parameters are updated before the start of each run and are used during the data analysis to corrected the positron data. My second role is dedicated to the correction of the beam dynamics effect to the omega_a measured value. During the Run-1 analysis a new beam dynamics effect has been discovered, the phase acceptance effect. The size of this effect was found to be not negligible as well as the size of its systematic error. The study of this effect has been conducted by me and a task force inside the collaboration with the aims of understand the origin, computing the size of the correction and the related systematic error. This work is part of my PhD thesis.

Right now I'm Post-Doc researcher at the University of Liverpool, continuing working on g-2 experiment and covering the role of Beam dynamics correction analysis co-coordinator for the next round of data analysis for Run-4/5/6.

Personal Statement
I was head of Particle Physics, from 2011-2019. My aim was to support the group to tackle the most fundamental of problems in Physics.

The group has experiments at CERN, Fermilab and in Tokai (Japan) as well as SNOlab in Canada. We work at the energy frontier (ATLAS) and precision frontiers (LHCb) at CERN and g-2 (FNAL). We have a programme understanding the properties of neutrinos at T2K and HK (Japan), Proto-Dune and DUNE. The group leads in the UK an initiative to make terrestial measurements of Dark Energy using Quantum Technologies and has joined the LZ experiment for DM (dark matter). All these experiments should lead us to a better understanding of the nature of matter (luminous and dark), to understand the predominance of matter over anti-matter, to understand the properties of neutrinos, and to make first measurements of DE.

I strongly believe that the group must be involved closely with both theoretical developments and enabling technologies and am actively involved in building relationships between our engineering departments and CERN.

From 1997-2011 my LHCb group to build the VELO detectors which is one of the highest precision detectors at the LHC and has enabled the LHCb experiment to make critical measurements of the properties of B meson days. Previously I was a member of the DELPHI group where I made precision measurements of B-lifetimes and WW couplings.

I am currently working on the LHCb upgrade due to take data early next decade. I am also working on the g-2 experiment at FNAL, where Liverpool is building the tracking detectors, and hopes to study the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and its electric dipole moment (EDM). . I am also trying to build a small lab experiment to attempt to look for evidence of the foam like nature of space and time at the Planck scale.

You can find out more details on my personal site.

Personal Statement
Professor Peter Bryant is an environmental and radiation protection specialist with over 18 years of experience across the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear power, radioactive waste management, decommissioning, and contaminated land.

He has held senior leadership positions including Director of ESG & Radiation Strategy and Head of Environment, Decommissioning & Radiation Safety at Sizewell C/EDF, and CEO and Director General of the World Nuclear Transport Institute (WNTI), leading programmes in environmental permitting, radiation protection, nuclear safety, radioactive waste management, decommissioning, and emergency preparedness.

Professor Bryant is an internationally recognised authority on radiation protection and nuclear policy. He serves on the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Committee 4, is Vice Chair of Task Group 120 on Radiological Protection for Radiation Emergencies and Malicious Events, and is a member of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Expert Group on International Recommendations (EGIR). He has also been appointed by the UK Secretary of State as a member of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM).

Widely recognised for his expertise in stakeholder engagement and risk communication, he has supported numerous International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) missions and international capacity-building programmes.

A former President of the Society for Radiological Protection, Professor Bryant holds a Professorship in Physics at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Radiation Risk Management and Nuclear Energy Policy, and is a Senior Fellow at the University of Suffolk in Environment and Energy Research.

Research Overview
Pete has published multiple peer reviewed papers across the area of Sustainable Decision Making, Communicating Radiation Risk, Skills Development, Nuclear Policy and Radiological Assessment, and is author of the book Airborne Radioactive Discharges and Human Health Effects. A summary of his current research areas is provided below: