Dr Caroline Shenton-Taylor


Lecturer in Applied Nuclear Physics
PhD (Warwick, 2007), MPhys, CPhys, MInstP, FHEA

Academic and research departments

Department of Physics.

About

Areas of specialism

Nuclear Physics; Artificial Intelligence; Data Analytics; Nuclear Security; Radiation; Environmental Protection; Scientific Outreach

University roles and responsibilities

  • Physics Undergraduate Admissions Tutor 2018-2023
  • Acting Senior Tutor for Professional Training Jan-Sept 2018
  • Institute of Physics IOP Mentor (2009 onwards)

    My qualifications

    2007
    PhD
    University of Warwick
    2004
    MPhys (Hons.) First class
    University of Warwick

    Previous roles

    2004 - 2017
    Industrial Scientist
    Team and Technical Lead
    2010 - 2011
    Academic Visitor
    Imperial College London

    Research

    Research interests

    Research collaborations

    Indicators of esteem

    • Hall of Famelab 2017 Reserve 

      Famelab 2014 UK National Winner

      International Famelab 2014 Audience Winner 

      Ministry of Defence Chief Scientific Advisers Commendation Award 2011

      British Aerospace Engineering Chairman's Award 2010

       

      Supervision

      Postgraduate research supervision

      Teaching

      Publications

      Highlights

      Examples of co-authored publications/articles/proceedings are listed below.

      Over 120 authored technical industrial reports (2007-2017)

      An artificial neural network algorithm developed for shielded multi-isotope identification (2023) L Lee-Brewin, D. Read and C. Shenton-Taylor doi 10.1088/1748-0221/18/05/P05043

      Thermoluminescence Glow Curve Study of beta irradiated Ge doped core fibre with different dopant concentrations, (2022) C. Termsuk, S. Sweeney and C. Shenton-Taylor, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.109974

      Fading and Residual Responses for Thermoluminescent Dosimetry of Silica Beads Irradiated Using a High-dose Electron-beam (2021) K Ley, S A Hashim, A Lohstroh, C Shenton-Taylor, D A Bradley, Radiation Physics and Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2021.109366

      Thermoluminescence response of silica beads to high-dose irradiations (2020) K Ley, S A Hashim, A Lohstroh, C Shenton-Taylor, D A Bradley, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2019.108349

      Application of a novel search method to handled gamma radiation detection (2019) P K Soin, S Pitts, C Shenton-Taylor, J Barnes, IEEE Sensors Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2945314

      Investigating the components of signals produced by the Pockels CCD imaging technique in CdZnTe (2019) S Parsons, A Langley, C Shenton-Taylor, A Lohstroh, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2018.2859245

      Effect of shielding conductivity on magnetic induction tomographic security imagery (2017) J Wood, R Ward, P Tatum, C Shenton-Taylor, S Taylor, G Bagley, M Joseph, J C Watson, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 53 issue 4 DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2016.2618780

      Predicting the air fluorescence yield of radioactive sources (2016) C Thompson, E E Barritt, C Shenton-Taylor, Elsevier Radiation Measurements, 88, pp. 48-54 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2016.02.013

      Cadmium zinc telluride based infrared interferometry for X-ray detection (2015) A Lohstroh, I Della-Rocca, S Parsons, A Langley, C Shenton-Taylor, D Blackie, Applied Physics Letters 106 063507 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4908290

      Spin and orbital moments in Fe3O4 (2010) J A Duffy, J W Taylor, S B Dugdale, C Shenton-Taylor, M W Butchers, S R Giblin, M J Cooper, Y Sakurai, M Itou, Physical review. B, Condensed matter 04/2010; 81(13). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.134424

      Bulk spin polarization of Co(1-x)Fe(x)S2 (2009) C Utfeld, S R Giblin, J W Taylor, J A Duffy, C Shenton-Taylor, J Laverock, S B Dugdale, M Manno, C Leighton, M Itou, Y Sakurai, Physical Review Letters 11/2009; 103(22):226403.

      Development of magnetic Compton scattering using a 9T cryomagnet at the ESRF (2008) J A  Duffy, J W Taylor, C Shenton-Taylor, C Steer. L V Blaauw, M J Cooper, Acta Crystallographic Section A Foundations of Crystallography http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0108767308081609

      A short history of magnetic Compton scattering (2007) M J Cooper, C Shenton-Taylor, J A Duffy, C A Steer, L V Blaauw, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 09/2007; 580(1):1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.010

      Compton scattering studies of 4f ferromagnetism (2007) M J Cooper, J A Duffy, Z F Banfield, A M Bebb, L Blaauw, C Shenton-Taylor, C Steer, J W Taylor, Radiation Physics and Chemistry 05/2007; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2005.07.034

      Magnetic Compton scattering study of the magnetocaloric material Gd7Pd3 (2007) C Shenton-Taylor, J A Duffy, J W Taylor, C A Steer, D N Timms, M J Cooper, L V Blaauw, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 05/2007; 19(18):186208.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/19/18/186208

      Spin wave dynamics of MnO confined in nanometer pores (2006) J W Taylor, J A Duffy, C S Steer, C Shenton-Taylor, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 03/2007; 310(2): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.11.067

      Spin-resolved Compton scattering study of RuSr2GdCu2O8 (2005) Z F Banfield, J A Duffy, J W Taylor, C A Steer, A Bebb, M J Cooper, L Blaauw, C Shenton-Taylor, R Ruiz-Bustos, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 08/2005; 17(36):5533.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/17/36/009

      Academic Publications – Technical Sponsor

      Magnetic Imaging: A new tool for UK National Nuclear Security (2015) B J Darrer, J C Watson, P Bartlett, F Renzoni, Nature Scientific Reports 01/2015; Sci. Rep. 5, 7944 DOI: 10.1038/srep07944I https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07944

      Toward an Automated Setup for Magnetic Induction Tomography (2015) B J Darrer, J C Watson, P Bartlett, F Renzoni, IEEE Transaction on magnetics 01/2015, 51(1), 6500105 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7029227

      A bio-inspired chemical sensor of gamma and neutron radiation (2014) J A Griffith, T A Bayer, Sensors and Actuators B 190 818-821 doi.org/10/1016/j.snb.2013.09.012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2013.09.012

      Conference Proceedings – Author / Sponsor

      X-ray Luminescence of Nanocomposite Plastic Scintillator using CuInS/ZnS Quantum Dots (2021)  C.L. Grove, I.H.B. Braddock, M.P. Taggart, C. Crean, S.J. Sweeney, P.J. Sellin, and C. Shenton-Taylor SORMA West 

      Application of 2D Convex Polygon Partitioning to Radiation Detection (2017) P. Soin, O Almaleki, C Shenton-Taylor, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2017/IEEE

      Assessment of quantum dots for nuclear security (2017) T Crane, A Gavin, J Burns, D Glass, P Sellin, C Shenton-Taylor, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2017/IEEE

      Discrimination of liquid samples using magnetic induction tomography (2016) P Tatum, R Ward, C Lloyd, J Wood, S Taylor, C Shenton-Taylor, J. Watson, ESMA 2016

      Investigation of THGEM technology for nuclear security applications (2015) K Ley, A Langley, C Steer, C Shenton-Taylor, EPJ Web of Conferences 2015/MPGD

      Imaging by electromagnetic induction with resonant circuits (2015) R Guillizoni, J C Watson, P A Bartlett, F Renzoni, SPIE Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications II, At Baltimore, USA, Volume: Proc. SPIE 9481 DOI: 10.1117/12.2183180

      Magnetic Imaging through metallic enclosures (2015) B J Darrer, J C Watson, P Bartlett, F Renzoni, 7th International Symposium on Process Tomography

      Wavelet analysis of high and low resolution gamma-ray spectra: an investigation of peak finding techniques (2015) C Thompson, R L Turner, K Vaughan, Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference 2015/IEEE

      Wavelet analysis of shielded radiological material: The applicability of wavelet analysis for National Security (2014) K Vaughan, R L Turner, P Kendall, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2014/IEEE

      Wavelet analysis for the separation of spectral features (2014) R L Turner, K Vaughan, IMA's 10th International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing

      Distributed detector radiation networks: Static and Mobile sensor configurations (2014) C Shenton-Taylor, R Murphy, N Shute, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2014/IEEE

      Spectra fusion using fuzzy logic (2014) A Langley and C Shenton-Taylor, IMA's 10th International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing

      Development of a three-dimensional model for sensor positioning (2013) C Shenton-Taylor, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2013/IEEE

      Exploration of the Pockels effect for radiation detection applications (2012) D Blackie, A Langley, C Shenton-Taylor, V Permual, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2012/IEEE

      Signal Analysis and data fusion methodologies (2012) C Shenton-Taylor, G Hurst, K Duore, P R Arthur, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2012/IEEE

      A multi-phase equation of state applied to the study of shock loaded tin (2011) C Shenton-Taylor, A Glauser, E Price, T Ota, APS Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

      The size enhanced spin moment in NiO nanoparticles (2006) C Steer, C Shenton-Taylor, J.A. Duffy, Spring-8 Highlights Journal