Personal statement
Paul McKenna's research interests focus on high power laser-plasma interactions. His present research topics include: laser-driven ion acceleration; fast electron generation and transport in dense plasma, and application to the development of advanced schemes for inertial fusion energy; high field physics at the focus of ultra-intense laser pulses; plasma optics; and, laser-driven nuclear physics.
He is an EPSRC Leadership fellow since 2012 and a Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics at the University of Strathclyde since 2011. He received his PhD at Queens University Belfast in 2000, before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the university of Glasgow from 2000-2002. From 2002-2005, he held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship at the University of Strathclyde, and was appointed to a Lectureship at the university in 2006, and a Readership in 2008.
Professional activities
- Invited talk at the International Conference on Ultrafast Optical Science (UltrafastLIght-2017)
- Speaker
- 3/10/2017
- Invited talk at the 2nd Conference on Extremely High Intensity Laser Physics (2017)
- Speaker
- 6/9/2017
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/9/2017
- Invited Lecture at the Culham Plasma Summer School 2017
- Invited speaker
- 25/7/2017
- Invited Talk at an EPS Conference Satellite International Workshop on High Field Science
- Invited speaker
- 1/7/2017
- Invited talk - Central Laser Facility 40th Anniversary Meeting
- Invited speaker
- 20/6/2017
more professional activities
Projects
- Cockcroft Institute / R160525-1
- Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Jaroszynski, Dino (Co-investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Apr-2017 - 31-Mar-2018
- Cockcroft Institute
- Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Jaroszynski, Dino (Co-investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Apr-2017 - 31-Mar-2018
- Harwell Imaging Partnership project | Frazer, Timothy
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator) Frazer, Timothy (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2017 - 01-Apr-2021
- Advanced laser-plasma optics technology
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator)
- Period 01-Mar-2018 - 31-Oct-2022
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Frazer, Timothy
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator) Frazer, Timothy (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2017 - 01-Apr-2021
- EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Institutional Sponsorship Award 2017 (GCRF) / R171051-106
- Hidding, Bernhard (Principal Investigator) Jaroszynski, Dino (Co-investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Jul-2017 - 31-Mar-2018
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