Paul McKenna

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  Optimisation and control of laser-driven radiation sources using machine learning

  Gray, R. & McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/10/22 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research - Studentship

• STFC Lancaster Cockcroft 2022 DTP - Christopher McQueen

  McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/10/22 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2022 | Torrance, Ben

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Torrance, B.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/22 → 1/10/26

  Project: Research Studentship Case - Internally allocated

• Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2022

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/22 → 30/09/27

  Project: Research - Studentship Case

• The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications

  Whyte, C., Gray, R. & McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/10/22 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research

• DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/22 → 30/09/28

  Project: Research - Studentship

  • Expansion 100%
  • Eddy 100%
  • Expansion Flow 100%
  • Power Law Fluid 100%
  • Spacing 66%

• Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2 2023-

  McKenna, P., Hidding, B. & Sheng, Z.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/04/22 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

• PhD Studentship for Characterising Laser-driven Particle Beams

  Gray, R. & McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/10/21 → 30/09/25

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Advanced laser-plasma optics technology | Alderton, Matthew

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Alderton, M.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/21 → 1/04/25

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• Advanced laser-plasma optics technology | Peat, Maia

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Peat, M.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/21 → 1/04/25

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2021

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/21 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research - Studentship Case

• The new intensity frontier: exploring quantum electrodynamic plasmas

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/06/21 → 30/05/25

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Optimization 73%
  • Regimes 57%
  • Laser Pulse 48%
  • Simulation 44%

• Cockcroft Phase 4

  McKenna, P., Cross, A., Hidding, B., McNeil, B., Ronald, K. & Sheng, Z.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/04/21 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Optimization 73%
  • Regimes 57%
  • Laser Pulse 48%
  • Simulation 44%

• Industrial Case Account - University of Strathclyde 2020

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/20 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research - Studentship Case

• Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2

  McKenna, P., Hidding, B. & Sheng, Z.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/10/20 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• STFC Strathclyde 2020 DTP

  McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/10/20 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Maths DTP 2020 University of Strathclyde

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/20 → 31/10/25

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/20 → 30/09/25

  Project: Research - Studentship

  • Models 100%
  • Events 100%
  • Driven Approach 100%
  • Links 100%
  • Bayesian Networks 50%

• Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Bacon, Ewan

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Bacon, E.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/20 → 1/04/24

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Harmonics 100%
  • Light 100%
  • Laser Pulse 100%
  • Aperture 100%
  • Laser 25%

• Industrial Case Account - University of Strathclyde 2019

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/19 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research - Studentship Case

• Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Dolier, Ewan

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Dolier, E.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/19 → 1/10/23

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Laser 100%
  • Optimization 100%
  • Simulation 83%
  • Particle 66%
  • Independent Variables 54%

• Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/18 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/18 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research - Studentship

  • Electric Potential 100%
  • Light 100%
  • Platelet 100%
  • SCID Mouse 100%
  • Leaching 100%

• Advanced laser-plasma optics technology

  McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/03/18 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Finished

  Cockcroft Institute Covid-19 Grant Extension (CoA) Allocation

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/03/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• PANAMA: Plasma Accelerators for Nuclear Applications and Materials Analysis (panama) - National Nuclear User Facility Phase 2

  Renshaw, J., Jaroszynski, D., Lunn, R., McKenna, P. & Bots, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/11/19 → 30/04/23

  Project: Research

• Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Goodman, Jack

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Goodman, J.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/19 → 1/07/23

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Laser 100%
  • Optimization 66%
  • Protons 66%
  • Regimes 44%
  • Targets 44%

• Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Lofrese, Antonio

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Lofrese, A.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/03/19 → 1/12/22

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• Advanced laser-plasma optics technology | Lofrese, Antonio

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Lofrese, A.

  1/03/19 → 1/12/22

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics of Relativistically Transparent Plasmas

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & King, M.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/11/17 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Targets 46%
  • Laser Pulse 42%
  • Electrons 34%
  • Ion 27%

• Laser Driven Proton Beam Propagation Study

  McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  23/10/17 → 10/11/17

  Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)

• Accelerating the Middle East -- EPSRC GCRF Institutional Sponsorship

  Hidding, B., McKenna, P., Sheng, Z. & Jaroszynski, D.

  1/10/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research - Internally Allocated

  • Life 100%
  • Plasma 100%

• Harwell Imaging Partnership project | Frazer, Timothy

  McKenna, P., Sheng, Z. & Frazer, T.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/17 → 17/02/22

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Laser 100%
  • Focusing 100%
  • Targets 100%
  • Laser Pulse 66%
  • Contrast 66%

• EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Institutional Sponsorship Award 2017 (GCRF) / R171051-106

  Hidding, B., Jaroszynski, D., McKenna, P. & Sheng, Z.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/07/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research - Internally Allocated

• Cockcroft Institute / R160525-1

  Riis, E., Cross, A., Eliasson, B., Gray, R., Hidding, B., Jaroszynski, D., McKenna, P., McNeil, B., Ronald, K. & Sheng, Z.

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research - Internally Allocated

  • Microwave 100%
  • Undulator 100%
  • Amplifier 87%
  • Simulation 66%
  • Frequencies 66%

• Cockcroft Institute

  McKenna, P., Cross, A., Eliasson, B., Gray, R., Hidding, B., Jaroszynski, D., McNeil, B., Ronald, K., Sheng, Z. & Zhang, L.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council, University of Liverpool, Lancaster University, University of Manchester

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Electrons 100%
  • Radiation 67%
  • Microwave 67%
  • Performance 60%
  • Injection 60%

• Laser-driven radiation beamlines at SCAPA (EPSRC Capital Equipment Portfolio)

  McKenna, P., Boyd, M., Gray, R., Hidding, B., Jaroszynski, D., McArthur, S. & Sheng, Z.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/04/17 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Utilization 63%
  • Electrons 49%
  • Beamline 43%
  • Radiation 42%

• High Energy Supercontinuum Generation in Plasma Filaments for Fundamental Laser-Plasma Physics

  Gray, R. & McKenna, P.

  Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

  1/03/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Research

• Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Carnell, Katie

  McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Carnell, K.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/16 → 1/01/21

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Jarrett, Jonathan

  McKenna, P., King, M. & Jarrett, J.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/16 → 17/05/21

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Targets 100%
  • Laser 91%
  • Ion 66%
  • Focusing 50%
  • Light 45%

• Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Davidson, Zoe

  McKenna, P., Sheng, Z. & Davidson, Z.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/16 → 22/06/23

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Laser 100%
  • Targets 54%
  • Light 43%
  • Focusing 42%
  • Ion 40%

• Lab in a bubble

  Jaroszynski, D., Boyd, M., Brunetti, E., Ersfeld, B., Hidding, B., McKenna, P., Noble, A., Sheng, Z., Vieux, G., Welsh, G. H. & Wiggins, M.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/04/16 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Electrons 54%
  • Electron Beams 50%
  • Radiation 49%
  • Laser Pulse 40%

• Laserlab-Europe IV (H2020 INFRA IA)

  Jaroszynski, D., Hidding, B., McKenna, P. & Sheng, Z.

  European Commission - Horizon 2020

  1/12/15 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Electrons 73%
  • Electron Beams 50%
  • Radiation 43%
  • Utilization 28%

• Industrial Case Account 2015 | Zemaityte, Egle

  McKenna, P., King, M. & Zemaityte, E.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/15 → 25/11/20

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

  • Cryogenics 100%
  • Expansion 100%
  • Ion 100%
  • Deuteron 100%
  • Targets 100%

• Industrial Case Account 2015 / S151217-103

  McFarlane, A. & McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP - University of Strathclyde) | Wilson, Thomas

  Sheng, Z., McKenna, P. & Wilson, T.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  1/10/15 → 17/01/20

  Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

• iCASE studentship with DSTL

  McKenna, P.

  Defence Science and Technology Laboratory DSTL MoD

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research - Studentship

• Laser-Plasma Interactions at the Intensity Frontier: the Transition to the QED-Plasma Regime

  McKenna, P.

  EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

  11/06/15 → 10/06/19

  Project: Research

  • Laser 100%
  • Laser Pulse 48%
  • Electrons 44%
  • Ion 30%
  • Radiation 29%

• Provision of experimental support from the University of Strathclyde during the Vulcan (TAW) High Power Laser Applications experiment

  McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  9/03/15 → 27/03/15

  Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)

• MPhil project for Steve Hawkes

  McKenna, P.

  STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

  1/12/14 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research - Studentship