School of Physics announces Research Demonstratorships (07/05/2013)

The UCD School of Physics is pleased to invite applications for research demonstrators. These are funded PhD positions for four years (€11,000 per year plus €3,000 towards fees), with a large emphasis on tutoring and demonstrating to the undergraduate student body. The successful candidates will have to perform about 230 hours of teaching-related duties per year.

Publication Highlight: Swarm Dynamics (06/04/2013)

A study of animal swarms uncovers new features of their collective behaviour when overcrowding sets in. A research paper on swarm dynamics by Maksym Romenskyy and Vladimir Lobaskin of UCD School of Physics was highlighted by European Physical Journal B in March 2013.

Physics PhD Graduates win UK Prizes (20/03/2013)

Two past students of the School of Physics, Dr. Kilian Smith and Dr. Donal Gallagher, have been awarded the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) prize for best mark achieved by a student on the NTEC M.Sc. course, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Drs. Smith and Gallagher both completed a BSc in Experimental Physics in UCD in 1996. They both subsequently completed their PhD’s with the Radiation Physics Research group at the School of Physics.