Dr Ross Gray

Research Fellow

Physics

Personal statement

Ross Gray received his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in 2013, he continued at Strathclyde through his post-doctoral research from 2013-2016 and now holds a Strathclyde Chancellors Fellowship. His research covers a range of topics in intense laser-matter interactions but he is currently focused on understanding the ultrafast, relativistic and nonlinear dynamics of intense laser propagation through plasma by developing next generation time-resolving diagnostics approaches. The overall aim of this research is to further our fundamental understanding of laser-mater interactions and to support the development of compact plasma-based particle accelerators.

Publications

Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime: Goodman J, King M, Wilson R, Gray R J, McKenna P; New Journal of Physics Vol 24 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac681f
Influence of spatial-intensity contrast in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions: Wilson R, King M, Butler N M H, Carroll D C, Frazer T P, Duff M J, Higginson A, Dance R J, Jarrett J, Davidson Z E, Armstrong C D, Liu H, Hawkes S J, Clarke R J, Neely D, Gray R J, McKenna P; Scientific Reports Vol 12 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05655-4
Inﬂuence of target-rear-side short scale length density gradients on laser-driven proton acceleration: Higginson A, Wilson R, Goodman J, King M, Dance R J, Butler N M H, Armstrong C D, Notley M, Carroll D C, Fang Y, Yuan X H, Neely D, Gray R J, McKenna P; Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Vol 63 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ac2035
Deconvolution of multi-Boltzmann x-ray distribution from linear absorption spectrometer via analytical parameter reduction: Armstrong C D, Neely D, Kumar D, McKenna P, Gray R J, Pirozhkov A S; Review of Scientific Instruments Vol 92, pp. 113102 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0057486
Enhanced laser intensity and ion acceleration due to self-focusing in relativistically transparent ultrathin targets: Frazer T P, Wilson R, King M, Butler N M H, Carroll D C, Duff M J, Higginson A, Jarrett J, Davidson Z E, Armstrong C, Liu H, Neely D, Gray R J, McKenna P; Physical Review Research Vol 2 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.042015
Self-referencing spectral interferometric probing of the onset time of relativistic transparency in intense laser-foil interactions: Williamson SDR, Wilson R, King M, Duff M, Gonzalez-Izquierdo B, Davidson ZE, Higginson A, Booth N, Hawkes S, Neely D, Gray RJ, McKenna P; Physical Review Applied Vol 14 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.034018

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Professional activities

58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics: Speaker; 18/11/2016
43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics: Invited speaker; 5/7/2016
41st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics: Speaker; 24/6/2014
41st IOP Plasma Physics Conference: Speaker; 17/4/2014

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Projects

Advanced laser-plasma optics technology | Peat, Maia: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Peat, Maia (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2024
PhD Studentship for Characterising Laser-driven Particle Beams: Gray, Ross (Principal Investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Alderton, Matthew: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Alderton, Matthew (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2024
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Peat, Maia: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Peat, Maia (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2024
Advanced laser-plasma optics technology | Alderton, Matthew: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Alderton, Matthew (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Bacon, Ewan: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Bacon, Ewan (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024

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