麻豆传媒

Professor Scott is Director of the Interface Analysis Centre (IAC) in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol, and lead for the newly established National Nuclear User Facility for Hot Robotics. He is also Co-Director (Science) of the South West Nuclear Hub, which provides a focus for civil nuclear research, innovation, and skills in the southwest of the UK, bringing together a strategic alliance of academic, industrial, and governmental members. Professor Scott鈥檚 research expertise is around the detection and characterization of nuclear materials, to aid the prediction of their behavior in engineered and environmental scenarios. This includes a specific strand of activity relating to nuclear robotics and sensors. He works closely with the nuclear industry in the UK and overseas to deliver characterization and decontamination solutions for nuclear decommissioning. Research has been funded in association with a variety of organizations including the AWE, CERN, Sellafield and EDF with complementary funding from EPSRC, STFC, NERC, NATO, the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.

Education
2000 - MSci Geology, University of Bristol, 
2005 - PhD Uranium Geochemistry, University of Bristol (Commendation for excellence)

Accomplishments
2012 - present - Academic lead for the Sellafield Centre of Expertise in Uranium and Reactive metals, 
2014 - RAEng ERA award for innovation for Advanced Airborne Radiation Monitoring (AARM) system, 
2017 - Special advisor to the House of Lords, March 2021 - UKAEA / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Advancing the Fusion Energy Fuel Cycle

Tamas Varga leads a team of researchers in the Biogeochemical Transformations team. He has been a senior research scientist at EMSL since 2009. He received his PhD in Chemistry in 2005 from Georgia Institute of Technology following his MS in Chemistry from the University of Debrecen, and MS in Economics from the University of Miskolc, both in Hungary.
Before PNNL, he spent his postdoctoral years at the University of California, Davis (2005-2007) and Argonne National Laboratory (2007-2009). He supports the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray computed tomography (XCT) user program at EMSL, maintains the XRD and XCT facilities in part, and develops his own research program utilizing EMSL's capabilities and those at other national user facilities for collaborative research. As part of user support, he performs XRD characterization of various types of samples (powder, thin film, etc.), and XCT imaging of a range of materials (biological, geological, etc.).
He has published over 110 journal articles, a book chapter, and given several invited talks at conferences and research institutions. He has also been active in scientific editing, conference chairing, proposal review panels in the materials science and synchrotron science areas, and mentoring the younger generation in science.