ROBIN TIMMIS, DPHIL ATOMIC AND LASER PHYSICS
I joined Peter Norrey’s groups as a DPhil student in October 2020 after graduating with a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where I specialised in particle and theoretical physics.
My research focuses on laser-plasma interactions using the highest achievable laser intensities. Specifically, I use PIC simulations to look at relativistic laser beams incident on dense plasmas, producing fast electron bunches and attosecond X-ray pulses. I like how my work touches on a broad range of ideas within physics. I am interested in how the X-ray pulses could be an efficient heat source in inertial confinement fusion and in using the electron bunches to verify the Unruh effect and explore the QED regime.
Email:
robin.timmis@physics.ox.ac.uk
Oxford Physics Page: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/timmis