Profile
Biography
Research Area
I lead a research group in the area of low-temperature plasmas and their applications with a particular emphasis on plasma medicine
Previous Posts
- 2011 - 2015 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship / Lecturer, University of York, UK
- 2010 – 2011 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- 2008 – 2010 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- 2004 – 2008 Postdoc Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Awards
William Crookes Prize 2018
Hershkowitz Plasma Sources Science and Technology Early Career Award 2013
Research
Overview
Research interests
- Low temperature plasmas: low pressure rf plasmas, atmospheric pressure plasma jets, microplasmas
- Technological applications of plasmas, including plasma medicine
- Plasma diagnostics
Current Research Projects and Funding
- EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship ‘Interactions between micro-plasma devices’
- EPSRC New Directions for Research Leaders ‘Low-temperature plasmas: A key enabler in cancer therapeutics’
Collaborator: Norman Maitland, YCR Cancer Research Unit
- ‘Chemistry at cold plasma-liquid interfaces’ Leverhulme Trust funding.
Collaborator: Victor Chechik (PI), Department of Chemistry
- ‘Metrology concepts for a new generation of plasma manufacturing with atom-scale precision’ EPSRC funding
Collaborators: Timo Gans (PI), Erik Wagenaars, YPI and
Mike Ashfold, Paul May, University of Bristol
Research Group
Postdocs
Jérôme Bredin
Yury Gorbanev (joint with Department of Chemistry)
Angela Privat-Maldonado (joint with Department of Biology)
PhD students
Layla Alelyani
Martin Blake
Adam Hirst (joint with Department of Biology)
Andrew Hurlbatt
Sandra Schröter (joint with LPP, Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Internal Collaborators
Victor Chechik, Department of Chemistry
Norman Maitland & Fiona Frame, Department of Biology
Mike North and James Comerford, Department of Chemistry
Marjan van der Woude, Department of Biology
Open positions: Contact deborah.oconnell@york.ac.uk for information.
Full publication list available in the York Research Database
Low Temperature Plasma research at York
Alumni
Andrew Gibson
James Dedrick (Australian Endeavour Research Fellow)
Teaching
Undergraduate
Stage 3: Introduction to Plasma Science & Technology
2nd year laboratories
MPhys: current topics in low-temperature plasmas and biomedical applications
Postgraduate
MSc Fusion Energy: Further Plasma Physics
MSc Fusion Energy: Plasma Diagnostic Techniques
External activities
Memberships
Committees
AVS Plasma Science and Technology Division 2015 -
Executive and Program Committee
International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) 2016 -
Officier & Recording secretary
Chair of Plasma Science & Technique Division
British Plasma Science and Techniques Division Representative (British Vacuum Council)
Committee Member
International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC) 2017
International Programme Committee Member
International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT)
International Scientific Committee
Member of UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) College
Further information, see Pure
Editorial duties
Associate Editor
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A & B (AVS Publications)
Editorial Board
Scientific Reports (Nature)
Associate Editor
IEEE Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
Editorial Board Member
Plasma Medicine (Belgell House)
Invited talks and conferences
See Pure
