About me
Adrian Oeftiger is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Sub-department of Particle Physics and the John Adams Institute, and a Research Fellow at Linacre College.
He specialises in the physics of particle beams, researching the nonlinear dynamics of high-energy and high-intensity proton and ion beams. As an associate of the Accelerator and Beams Physics Group at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, he studies beam dynamics for the High Luminosity Upgrade of the world's largest synchrotron, the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Adrian also researches high-intensity effects in the LHC injector synchrotrons as well as for the ISIS-II Upgrade as an associate of the ISIS Accelerator Physics Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In his works, he proposes novel diagnostics techniques and pushes for higher beam intensities by inventing strategies to mitigate high-intensity effects. He serves on the Beam Dynamics Panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators. As a passionate educator, he lectures Data Analysis & Statistics for undergraduate Physics students, demonstrates at the Computing Lab for first- and second-years, and externally teaches the Accelerator Design Workshop at the international Joint Universities Accelerator School near Geneva, Switzerland.
Prospective doctoral students are encouraged to get in touch and apply.