Dr Lee Thompson
Reader in Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Contact details
- Room : E41
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24577
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : l.thompson@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics
- Dark matter searches
Research projects
- T2K
- KM3NeT
- ACORNE
- CREATE
Teaching
- PHY225 (lectures and lab)
- PHY320 (lectures)
- PHY343 (group projects)
- PHY6040 (lectures)
- Second year Physics tutorials
Departmental administration
- UCAS admissions tutor
- IOP accreditation
- Member of the UCAS team
- Departmental computing liaison
- Chair of the Numerical and Computational Physics vertical committee
- Postgraduate Student Mentor
- Undergraduate Student Advisor
Professional activities
- Spokesperson for the ACORNE project
- Spokesperson for the CREATE outreach project (Cosmic Ray Detectors in Schools)
- UK spokesperson for KM3NeT
- Member of the International Advisory Committee for the ARENA conference series (IAC chair in 2006)
- Referee for journals and funding agencies in the UK and EU
Recent key publications
- J.A. Aguilar et al., "First results of the Instrumentation Line for the deep-sea ANTARES neutrino telescope", Astroparticle Physics, 26 (2006) 314-324.
- S. Schael et al., "Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance", Physics Reports, 427 (2006) 257-454.
- O. Veledar et al., "Simple techniques for generating nanosecond blue light pulses from light emitting diodes", IOP Measurement Science and Technology 18 (2007) 131-137
- M. Ageron et al., "The ANTARES optical beacon system", Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A, 578 (2006) 498-509