Fully-funded PhD positions are offered each year.
Currently, I am offering projects on:
i)
physics exploitation
at the
Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program,
in particular with Short Baseline Neutrino Detector (SBND) data,
ii)
physics exploitation
at the
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO),
with a particular emphasis on atmospheric neutrinos,
iii)
neutrino interaction phenomenology, and
iv)
quantum computing and
deep learning applications for high energy physics.
Potential PhD projects are listed below. Several MPhys and BSc projects are also available.
I am happy to discuss other possibilities too.
PhD thesis topics offered:
- Quantum Computing applications for HEP.
- Reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino interactions in JUNO using Deep Learning.
- 3-flavour neutrino oscillation analysis of atmospheric neutrino event samples in JUNO.
- Joint multi-channel (muon-neutrino disappearance and
electron-neutrino appearance/disappearance) search for sterile neutrinos
at the Fermilab SBN program.
- Systematic constraints for new physics searches
at the Fermilab SBN program
from a comprehensive joint analysis of SBND data.
- Neutrino interaction measurements with SBND.
- Dark Sector studies with SBND.
- Phenomenological studies of neutrino interactions and development of an Argon tune
for the GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator
using a global analysis of measurements from the Fermilab SBN program.
Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing Studies with the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)
Starting October 1st, 2025
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2024 - present:
Mr. Liam Jones
(University of Liverpool)
PhD studentship fully funded by an STFC award (project reference: TBA) to the Physics Dept. of the University of Liverpool.
Co-supervisors: Prof. Xianguo Lu (University of Warwick)
Thesis:
Machine Learning Algorithms for Neutrino Event Reconstruction in Large Volume Neutrino Detectors
and Application in the Analysis of Atmospheric Neutrino Data in JUNO (TBD).
2023 - present:
Ms. Marina Esther Maneyro Questa
(University of Liverpool)
PhD studentship fully funded by a scholarship from
Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion (ANII)
(project reference: POS_EXT_2023_1_175687)
and post-graduate bursary funding by the Faculty of Science and Engineering
of the University of Liverpool.
Co-supervisors: Dr. Gabriel Perdue and Dr. Doğa Murat Kürkçüoğlu (Fermilab Quantum Institute)
Thesis:
Quantum Computing for Neutrino Scattering (TBD).
2023 - present:
Mr. Samuel Godwood
(University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisors: Dr. Gabriel Perdue and Dr. Doğa Murat Kürkçüoğlu (Fermilab Quantum Institute)
Thesis:
Quantum Computing for Neutrino Scattering (TBD).
2023 - present:
Mr. Yaoqi Cao 曹尧齐
(University of Warwick; Visiting researcher at University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisors: Prof. Xianguo Lu (University of Warwick)
Thesis:
Atmospheric neutrino oscillations in JUNO (TBD).
2023 - present:
Mr. Ziou He 赫子欧
(University of Warwick; Visiting researcher at University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisors: Prof. Xianguo Lu (University of Warwick)
Thesis:
Atmospheric neutrino oscillations in JUNO (TBD).
2021 - present:
Ms. Bethany Slater
(University of Liverpool)
Thesis [Tentative]:
Neutrino Flux and Interaction Systematic Constraints for the SBN Sterile Neutrino Oscillation Search
from a Joint Analysis of Exclusive Topological Event Samples on SBND
and the Utilization of the SBND PRISM Capabilities.
Co-recipient of the 2022 Leo Carrol award (Liverpool HEP) for outstanding post-graduate research.
2019 - present:
Mr. Jaiden Parlone (University of Liverpool)
PhD studentship fully funded by an STFC award
(
project reference: 2275621)
to the Physics Dept. of the University of Liverpool.
This studentship is part of
LIV.DAT,
the Liverpool Big Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Davide Sgalaberna (ETHZ)
Thesis [Tentative]:
Study of Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Oscillations at the T2K Experiment
with Run 1-11 Data.
2018 - 05/2023:
Dr. Frank Thomas Ham (University of Liverpool)
PhD studentship funded by an STFC award
(
project reference 2113282)
to the Physics Dept. of the University of Liverpool.
and a Liverpool Graduate Teaching Award (GTA).
First job after PhD: Senior Technologist with NSG Group (2023-present).
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2017 - 06/2022:
Dr. Júlia Tena Vidal (University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Hugh Gallagher (Tufts) and Dr. Marco Roda (Liverpool)
First job after PhD: Research Associate at Tel Aviv University working on DUNE, GENIE, e4nu and CLAS (2022-present).
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2017 - 05/2022:
Dr. Jaggar Henzerling (University of Liverpool)
First job after PhD: Data Scientist at Peak AI (2022-23).
Currently, a Data Scientist at AXA.
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2016 - 02/2022:
Dr. Francis Bench (University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Neil McCauley (University of Liverpool)
First job after PhD: Data Scientist at Eleven-i (2021-present).
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2016 - 09/2021:
Dr. Rhiannon Jones (University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Christos Touramanis (University of Liverpool)
Winner of UK-wide poster competition at the 2017 STFC HEP Summer School.
Best Experimental Poster award in NuPhys2018.
First job after PhD: Research Associate at the University of Sheffield working on DUNE and SBN (2021-22)
Currently a Lecturer in Particle Physics at the University of Sheffield.
Rhiannon's professional profile
2014 - 12/2018:
Dr. Christopher Barry (University of Liverpool)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Christos Touramanis (University of Liverpool)
First job after PhD:
Research Associate with our group at the University of Liverpool working on the ESA-funded POSITRINO project (2019-21)
2011 - 10/2015:
Dr. Steve Dennis (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory & University of Warwick)
Co-supervisors: Prof. Steve Boyd (University of Warwick) and Prof. Gary Barker (University of Warwick)
Thesis:
`Muon Antineutrino Disappearance and Non-Standard Interactions at the T2K Experiment'
[full text in
T2K-THESIS-069]
First job after PhD:
Research Associate with our group at the University of Liverpool working on DUNE, SBND, T2K and GENIE (2016-19).
Currently, a Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge working on DUNE and MicroBooNE.
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2011 - 12/2014:
Dr. Lorena Escudero (CSIC and University of Valencia)
Co-supervisor: Dr. Anselmo Cervera (IFIC Valencia)
Thesis:
`Joint Analysis of Three Flavour Neutrino Oscillations Combining the Electron-Neutrino Appearance
and Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Channels in the T2K Experiment'
[full text in
T2K-THESIS-070]
First job after PhD:
Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge working DUNE and MicroBooNE (2016-19).
Currently a Senior Research Associate the Department of Radiology at the University of Cambridge.
Also, currently, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute,
a Borysiewicz Interdisciplinary Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and
a Rokos PDRA at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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2010 - 07/2014:
Dr. Thomas Dealtry (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory & University of Oxford)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Alfons Weber (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory & University of Oxford)
Thesis:
`Precise Measurement of Muon-Neutrino Disappearance in the T2K Experiment'
[full text in
T2K-THESIS-057]
First job after PhD:
Research Associate at the University of Oxford working on DUNE
Currently, a Senior Research Associate at the University of Lancaster (HyperK, T2K).
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2008 - 12/2012:
Dr. James Dobson (Imperial College London)
Co-supervisor: Dr. Yoshi Uchida (Imperial College London)
Thesis:
`Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current π+ Production at the T2K Near Detector'
[full text in
T2K-THESIS-019]
First job after PhD:
Research Associate at UCL/Edinburgh working on LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN (2012-18).
Currently, a Lecturer in Particle Physics in the Department of Physics at KCL.
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