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Staff and students
Head of the group
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Professor Paul Stevenson
Professor of Physics, AWE William Penney Fellow
Academic staff
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Physics
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Dr Alexis Diaz Torres
Reader in Nuclear Theory, modelling reaction dynamics of atomic nuclei which is key to understanding both energy generation and element creation in stars.
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Dr Lisa Morrison
Lecturer in Physics
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Dr Matteo Vorabbi
Lecturer
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Dr Esra Yuksel
Lecturer
Senior Research staff
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Dr Natalia Timofeyuk
Senior Research Fellow
Postdoctoral research associates
Dr A Abhishek
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Bharti Bhoy
Research Fellow
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Dr Laura Moschini
Research Fellow in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Postgraduate research students
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Khlood Alharthi
Postgraduate Research Student
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Miriam Davies
Postgraduate Research Student
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Isaac Hobday
Postgraduate Research Student
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Iain Lee
Postgraduate Research Student
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Nick Lightfoot
Postgraduate Research Student in Neutron Capture Dynamics
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Ashley Pitt
Postgraduate Research Student
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Jane Rex
Postgraduate Research Student
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Samuel Sullivan
Postgraduate Research Student
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Nicholas Thomson
Postgraduate Research Student
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Nicholas Thomson
Postgraduate Research Student
Emeritus staff
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Professor Ronald Johnson
Emeritus Professor of Physics
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Professor Jeffrey Tostevin
Emeritus Professor of Physics