Personal statement
Professor Paul McKenna is a laser-plasma physicist and presently Head of the Department of Physics. His research focuses on ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions, including the development and application of laser-driven particle and radiation sources, plasma optics and high field science.
After graduating with a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and undertaking a short period of postdoctoral research at the University of Glasgow, Paul moved to the University of Strathclyde upon award of a Royal Society of Edinburgh personal research fellowship in 2002. He was appointed to an academic position in 2005, and promoted to Reader in 2008 and to Professor in 2011. He has also held a visiting position at the Central Laser Facility at Harwell and was an EPSRC Leadership Fellow from 2012-2017.
Professional activities
- Plenary Invited Talk at International Workshop on Laboratory Astrophysics
- Speaker
- 7/12/2020
- Co-Chair of the Superstrong field session of the International Conference on Laser Optics - ICLO2020
- Participant
- 2/12/2020
- External Advisor for a new Physics UG course at the University of Birmingham
- Examiner
- 1/12/2020
- UKRI-EPSRC ARCHER2 Pioneer Projects Panel member (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/12/2020
- ELI-NP First Users Workshop
- Participant
- 17/11/2020
- Talk at the International Conference on Laser Optics - ICLO2020
- Speaker
- 3/11/2020
More professional activities
Projects
- Cockcroft Institute Covid-19 Grant Extension (CoA) Allocation
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- 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
- STFC Strathclyde 2020 DTP
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- PANAMA: Plasma Accelerators for Nuclear Applications and Materials Analysis (panama) - National Nuclear User Facility Phase 2
- Renshaw, Joanna (Principal Investigator) Jaroszynski, Dino (Co-investigator) Lunn, Rebecca (Co-investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator) Bots, Pieter (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Goodman, Jack
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Goodman, Jack (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Dolier, Ewan
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Dolier, Ewan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
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