Physics World Newsletter: Julia Sutcliffe, 40 years of ISIS and a career in quantum
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Hello and welcome to your fortnightly update of the latest developments and opportunities in physics, tech and beyond. This week we talk to Julia Sutcliffe on the Physics World Weekly podcast about her life as a chief scientific adviser to the UK government’s business department. We also explore 40 years of neutron science at the ISIS facility in the UK and chat to Oxford University quantum scientist Raghavendra Srinivas. Also don’t forget to sign up for the next Physics World Live on 21 November, where we explore the future of battery technology.?
Julia Sutcliffe: chief scientific adviser explains why policymaking must be underpinned by evidence?
The latest episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the physicist and engineer Julia Sutcliffe, chief scientific adviser to the UK government’s Department for Business and Trade. Sutcliffe explains how she began her career as a PhD physicist before working in systems engineering at British Aerospace – where she worked on cutting-edge technologies including robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. She also discusses her current role advising the UK government to ensure that policymaking is underpinned by the best evidence.?
This year marks 40 years since ISIS, the UK’s neutron user facility, first became operational, providing researchers with a powerful means for understanding everything from human cells to quantum spins. Rosie de Laune and?colleagues from ISIS?examine the complex science and history behind the technique, and highlight some of the key research that has been performed at the facility over the last four decades.
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Raghavendra Srinivas is a research fellow in the Department of Physics and Balliol College at the University of Oxford, UK, and also works part-time for Oxford Ionics. His research focuses on using trapped ions for quantum information processing, quantum sensing and fundamental quantum optics. Srinivas was awarded Optica’s 2024 Theodor W H?nsch Prize in Quantum Optics, which recognizes impactful early career researchers working on optics-enabled quantum technologies. ?
In case you missed it…?
Flocking together: the physics of sheep herding and pedestrian flows: In the latest episode of the Physics World Stories podcast, host Andrew Glester shepherds you through the fascinating world of crowd dynamics.?
Eco-friendly graphene composite recovers gold from e-waste: New graphene-biopolymer material extracts gold ions 10 times more efficiently than other adsorbents.?
The final word…?
“I could see this deep pink sky - it looked brighter through my phone camera so I thought it was an aurora.”??
Amateur photographer Dee Harrison, from Ipswich, UK, quoted in the BBC?
Dee admits to being "slightly disappointed" after discovering that what she thought were the Northern Lights was actually the glow from?LED bulbs at a nearby tomato factory.?
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Editor-in-chief, Physics World?
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