Laser-Plasma Physicist making compact particle accelerators | Experiment enthusiast | 🇮🇪

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6 Aug 2018
Procrastination of thesis writing has devolved into adding footnotes for historical context #phdlife #physics #sendhelp
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7 Apr 2022
Me: Can I get one of those forms, I want to order some equipment. German: I'm sorry that's not possible, you need to request the forms. Me: Ok...How do I do that? German: Oh that's easy, you just need one of these forms! Me: 🤦
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Rob Shalloo retweeted
Dominic Raab: “Other Countries look at the UK with envy.” Other Countries: 👁👄👁
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12 Nov 2021
It's not a real beamline unless it comes from the Synchrotron region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling Bremsstrahlung
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Integrating (e^x)sinx by parts x.com/urupzia/status/1383518…

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9 Apr 2021
Great talk by Cara and Laura at the IOP Plasma physics conference about the award winning @liv_scientific podcast. Promoting the great research being done @LivUni and talking to the people behind the science #scicomm
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7 Feb 2021
Love how the players are socially distant for the national anthem but will be sticking their heads up each others arses in the scrum in about 8 minutes 😂 #IrevWal
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7 Feb 2021
Ok so 9 minutes rather than 8...but called it 👌🏼😂
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He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!
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11 Dec 2020
Our latest work combining Machine learning with Laser Plasma Accelerators has been published today in @NatureComms In it, we hand over the accelerator controls to a Bayesian Optimisation algorithm creating the first autonomous plasma accelerator nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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20 Oct 2020
The most accurate description of Ireland's new lockdown 👌🏼
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4 Sep 2020
Standing at a whiteboard rotating a marker in my hand and waving it about like a lunatic...either it's too late on a Friday or I'm trying to figure out S vs P polarisations in our system in my head...or both...
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1 Sep 2020
Does your president read a spoken word poetry version of an 80s classic, complete with saxophone solo? If not...why not? 10/10 Soulman Michael D Higgens is the #greatest @PresidentIRL . #Ireland #VanMorrison75 youtu.be/Q8K_mQlDw4I

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20 Aug 2020
This is super impressive stuff 👌🏼 A clear demonstration that LPAs can be well controlled and can act as stable electron sources for research and applications
Our "24h laser-plasma accelerator" results are finally out in PRX! Decoding Sources of Energy Variability in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator: journals.aps.org/prx/abstrac…
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19 Aug 2020
Maybe @Pontifex should put his money where his mouth is and bankroll it. Not exactly strapped for cash in the vatican are they... BBC News - Coronavirus: Pope's vaccine plea and universities facing 'crazy demand' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53839374
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28 Jul 2020
A news & views piece @plasmaStu and I wrote for @NaturePhotonics about a new class of laser plasma accelerators hoping to tackle the problem of dephasing by carefully manipulating the laser pulse shape in space and time. rdcu.be/b5R3I

New methods to control how laser pulses propagate inside a plasma could signify the start of a global race to demonstrate truly high-energy, compact particle accelerators: A news and views piece by @rshalloo and me in @NaturePhotonics rdcu.be/b5R3I
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15 Jun 2020
Arrived into Hamburg today to start the next part of the postdoc adventure @ DESY! Granted, it was an historically poor time to move country and I may not technically "speak German"...but I'm back in the EU, pubs are open and I'm gonna carry on firing lasers into plasmas 💪🏼😂🇩🇪
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