Stefanos Paschalis
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Ph.D (University of Liverpool)

Summary of expertise

• Nuclear instrumentation
• Quasifree scattering reactions
• Structure of exotic nuclei

Career

• Lecturer in Nuclear Technology, University of York, UK
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Nuclear Physics, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Departmental roles

• Year 1 Tutor
• Graduate Admissions Tutor

Research

Overview

Stefanos’ research is currently focused on ionising radiation detection technology and leads detector developments that are applied in the areas of fundamental research and societal applications. Stefanos is studying exotic nuclei, which provide a fertile ground to study some key properties of the strong nuclear force and help us understand better how nucleons group together and how nuclear structure emerges and evolves towards heavier systems.

Projects

• Spectroscopy of exotic nuclei
• Nuclear Instrumentation

Research group(s)

• Ms Mei Xiao (PhD student)
• Ms Faten Alsomali (PhD student)
• Tahani Almusidi (PhD student)
• Liam Atkins (PhD)
• Ms Sonia Escribano Rodriguez (PhD)
• Mr Aaron Stott (PhD)

Grants

• Position reconstruction in scintillators coupled to silicon photomultipliers – STFC 2017 –2019
• Neutron/gamma-ray discrimination in novel scintillators – Nuclear security industry 2017 – 2020
• The evaluation of digital SPAD imaging arrays to scintillator based radiation detectors – QuantIC/EPSRC industry-led (Kromek) 2017
• Real time miniaturized in situ blood counting system for PET preclinical studies – STFC 2017
• Prototype detectors for proton radiotherapy – Royal society research grant 2016 – 2017
• Exotic neutron-rich nuclei experiments at RIKEN – University of York 2016 – 2017

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Year 3: Frontiers of Research. Course details found at VLE at : https://vle.york.ac.uk
• Year 2: Nuclear Physics. Course details found at VLE at : https://vle.york.ac.uk
• Year 1: Professional Skills 1

Postgraduate

• Nuclear Techniques