energy
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Scott Lawrie
Current Job::
Particle Accelerator Physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
My latest work:
I’m project manager and lead designer of a big particle accelerator upgrade. We’re aiming to replace clunky Soviet-era technology with something modern, efficient and beautiful. This involves hundreds of kilowatts of power, lots of electromagnets and over a million pounds of expense! I’m really excited to be putting it all together to see if my designs work as planned, and to improve the entire accelerator complex for our visiting scientists.
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Leah Morgan
Current Job::
Diagnostic Project Engineer
My latest work:
I’m a physics graduate working as an engineer in fusion energy!
My main projects include designing and installing radiation shielding for some of the equipment close to our fusion reactor. We have a lot of high-energy experiments coming up and we know the radiation is going to destroy all the electronics, fibre optic cables, and rubber seals!
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Gabriela da Silva Xavier
Current Job::
Senior Lecturer in Cellular Metabolism
My latest work:
I work on proteins that control energy balance- fuel sensors, if you like- and one of the proteins that I work on seems to be regulating energy balance by its action in different parts of the body. For example, we have shown that this protein controls the work of the cells in the pancreas that regulate glucose balance and that people with type 2 diabetes have lowered levels of this protein in these cells. Recently, I found that mice that lack this fuel sensor eat more, and they eat more at the wrong time of day, suggesting that this protein is important in regulating appetite and responses to hunger. I am currently trying to figure out how this protein is doing this.
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Rebecca Wong
Current Job::
Safety Case Consultant
My latest work:
I am working on the JET safety case for operating with tritium. Tritium is a tricky material to manage because it is very mobile and is rather dosey!
