Physics@DCU

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Physics_at_DCU
www.dcu.ie/physics
School of Physics Research Profile
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DCU by Numbers

• 10,848 students
• 1,968 international students from 114 countries
• 2,974 postgraduates
• 767 by research
• 898 staff (449 academic)

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Faculties and Schools
Faculties and Schools
DCU Business School
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
OSCAIL National Distance Education Centre
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Science and Health
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School of Physics Talk Outline

• Vision Mission
• Staffing
• Research

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School Strategy - Vision/Mission

• Our Vision
• To achieve, by 2014, a nationally leading and
  internationally competitive position in niche
  physics education and research fields which is
  both highly visible and widely recognised
• Our Mission
• To achieve clear and significant improvements in
  education and research quality at third and
  fourth levels from undergraduate recruitment to
  postdoctoral formation during 2007 2014

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Physics - Academic Staff

• Academic staff from Ireland, UK, France, Germany,
  
• Greece, Netherlands, Italy, US, Australia Japan

2 X Full Professors 1 X Emeritus Professor 5 X
Assoc. Professors 4 X Senior Lecturer 5 X
Lecturer (Permanent) 1 X SFI Stokes Lecturer 1 X
Lecturer (Fixed term contract) 2 X Adjunct
Professors (E Meurs N OHare)
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Physics - Academic Staff

• One DCU-International Visiting Research Fellow
• Dr. Sivanadan Harilal
• (Kanpur ? Bochum ? UCSD ? (DCU) ? Purdue)

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Postgraduate Students and Researchers

• 53 Research postgraduate students (Nov 2010)
• 15 Contract research staff (Administration,
  Research Officer, Postdoctoral Fellow and
  Technical mostly )

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Graduate Trends (2003-2010)

• Average 25 B.Sc (Hons) in Physics p.a.
• Average 12 Ph.D graduates per annum

National Context 200 BSc across 20 programmes in
10 institutions during this period (RIA/IOP
Annual Surveys, 2005 2009)
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Research Strategy (Themes)

• To further enhance our research programmes in
• Plasma science and technology (fundamentals,
  nanomaterials growth/processing and fusion
  energy)
• Photonic sciences (optical sensor platforms,
  nano-biophotonics, photonic materials, surfaces
  and interfaces, ultrafast photonic processes and
  interactions)

To continue grow research in 3. Physics
education 4. Astronomy (http//www.astophysics.dc
u.ie)
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Research Strategy (Aims)

• To continue to work with associated research
  centres in order to build the major national
  research programmes
• To continue growing postgraduate research student
  numbers
• To play a leading role in Graduate Research
  Education Programmes (DRHEA, PRTLI V, etc.)
• To make further strategic hires in order to
  achieve these targets (e.g., DCU, SFI Stokes,
  etc.)
• To build strategic, robust and lasting links with
  DCU-India partners in our core research themes

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Research - Context

• Critical Mass Physics Groups -
• Astronomy, Plasmas, Surface Science, Laser-Matter
  Interactions, Semiconductors, Sensors Education
• Integrated with NCPST and NCSR (BDI)
• On-site laboratory and international large scale
  facility (CERN, RAL, DESY, SOLEIL, ASTRID,
  MAXLAB, LCLS, ITER,) based
• Many other top-tier international collaborations
• Sustained major successes wrt PRTLI, SFI, EU EI

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School - Associated Research Centres

• Senior staff have established multi-million euro
  research programmes and centres
• Precision SRC-(Turner) BDI CSET (MacCraith)
• Two National Research Centres founded by School
  Professors
• NCPST (Kennedy), NCSR (MacCraith)

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Research - Indicators - Income
Examples 2009 2010 SFI Cluster (Turner)
4.3 M SFI PI (Cafolla, Costello Hughes)
1.4 M SFI Stokes (Costello/Nikolopoulos)
0.49M EI (Karkari, Hayden, etc.) 0.62M IRCSET
Fellowships (various) 0.48M EU (Turner,
Nikolopoulos et al.) ca. 1.2M
Physics Average Annual Research Expenditure
(2005-2010) gt 2M
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Research - Indicators - Publications

• We publish in the highest impact/ esteemed
  scholarly journals, e.g
• Astrophysical Journal AAS
• Astronomy Astrophysics
• APL/JAP/RSI/PoP, etc - AIP
• Physical Review Letters/Phys. Review (A B) -
  APS
• Journal of Physics (B C) - IOP
• Optics Letters - OSA
• Nature Photonics, etc.

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Research - Indicators - Publications
Refereed papers in scholarly journals, 2003 -
2007
Source - Web of Science
Figures exclude special issues of journals
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Research - Indicators - Publications
2007-2010
Figures include special issues of journals
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Research - Other Indicators

• Outputs (2007 - 2010)
• gt 200 refereed journal articles
• gt110 Invited talks (Plenary, Conference,
  Workshop, Seminar)
• gt300 Conference presentations
• 6 Book chapters
• 8 Patents
• Editorial Boards (2007-2010)
• Plasma Sources Science and Technology
• Hindawi - Journal of Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Journal of Physics-C Condensed Matter
• Sensor Letters
• Sensors and Actuators
• Measurement Science and Technology
• Journal of Modern Optics

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Other Staff Activities

• Activities (2003 - 2010)
• Conferences EPS-EGAS(05), ICPIG (06), Europtrode
  (09), EPS-Plasma (2010)
• Workshops SMEC, IOP-AMIG, IPBPG, IOP-RF, I-SWAMP
  (11)
• Esteem - Examples
• MRIAs (2 staff ) and F.Inst.P (5 staff)
• UK EPSRC College (2 staff) of only 3 physicists
  nationally (7 ROI members)
• Chair - Board of Studies for Science of the NCCA
• Chair Radiological Protection Inst. Irl.
• Chair - Education group of the IOP
• Governing Board - Armagh Observatory
• EU Consultative and Steering Committees for
  Fusion
• Board - Univ Manchester Photon Science Institute
• Advisory panels of many international advisory
  conferences

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DCU Physics - Key Traits
People Facilities Competences Internationalisatio
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