Iustin Ouatu

I am a 1st year DPhil student in the plasma physics group led by Prof. Peter Norreys.

I am currently working on developing a new way to diagnose the peak intensity of a laser pulse generated at O(10 PW) laser facilities. This can be implemented in practice, for example, at the ELI-NP laser facility, in Magurele, Romania. The method is based on field ionization which happens when high-Z, ultra-rarefied, noble gases, are shot by extreme pulses of light.

I have graduated with an MPhys from Pembroke College, Oxford and my Master’s thesis, ‘’Bayesian model comparison for statistical differentiation of two forward models in Plasma Physics’’ has been supervised by Prof. Sam Vinko, Dr. Muhammad Kasim and Prof. Gianluca Gregori.