Dr. Edward Simpson

Ed Simpson is a physicist at the Australian National University researching nuclear reactions and their applications. He completed his PhD in nuclear theory at the University of Surrey in 2009, and has since held research positions at the University of Surrey, the University of York, and the Australian National University. He has won two ARC Discovery Project Grants (total awarded $1,153,500) and computer time from the National Computational Infrastructure (176,000 CPU hours). He was winner of the inaugural UK Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Group Prize (2010), recipient of a Young Tall Poppies Award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (2018), received an award from the Director of the Research School of Physics for Contributions to the Promotion of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (2018), and was nominated for a College of Science Award for Excellence in Supervision (2019).
Type
party
Access Privileges
Research School of Physics
Title
Dr.
Given Name
Edward
Surname
Simpson
Uni ID
u5633413
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9364-0768
Brief Description
MPhys (Fist Class Honours, Surrey), PhD (Surrey)
Full Description
Ed Simpson is a physicist at the Australian National University researching nuclear reactions and their applications. He completed his PhD in nuclear theory at the University of Surrey in 2009, and has since held research positions at the University of Surrey, the University of York, and the Australian National University. He has won two ARC Discovery Project Grants (total awarded $1,153,500) and computer time from the National Computational Infrastructure (176,000 CPU hours). He was winner of the inaugural UK Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Group Prize (2010), recipient of a Young Tall Poppies Award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (2018), received an award from the Director of the Research School of Physics for Contributions to the Promotion of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (2018), and was nominated for a College of Science Award for Excellence in Supervision (2019).
Email Address
edward.simpson@anu.edu.au
Postal Address
ANU College of Science The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2600 Australia
Website Address
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5359-8259; https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/simpson-ec
Fields of Research
510601 - Nuclear physics
Keywords
Nuclear fusion; Deep inelastic scattering; Multinucleon transfer; Energy dissiptation; Fusion hindrance; Dynamical models of fusion; Magnetic spectrometer; Reflected flux
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National University
  • Australian National Data Service
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