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Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Dr. Hannah Wakeling

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Particle Accelerator Environmental Sustainability

Research theme

  • Accelerator physics

Sub department

  • Particle Physics
hannah.wakeling@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: (2)73602
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 615B
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About me

I am a postdoctoral research assistant at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science in the Particle Physics sub-department at Oxford. My research is on particle accelerator environmental sustainability. In particular, I am the sustainability lead for the proposed future upgrade to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, ISIS-II.

Outside of my research I am an advocate for equity and inclusion, I enjoy teaching, and I work towards making research and academia in general more environmentally sustainable. I am a member of the sustainability in HECAP+ grassroots initiative, an organiser of the Sustainable High Energy Physics Workshop, and a new member of the Oxford Physics Gender Equity Network Committee.

I joined Oxford in 2023 after completing my Ph.D. in High Energy Particle (HEP) physics at McGill University, Montréal. My thesis topic was concerning Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in semi-leptonic \(B\) meson decays at the Belle II Experiment in Japan.

For more information about me, please see my LinkedIn, Website, or ORCID. 

My Research

I study the environmental impact of particle accelerators over their lifetime, from their construction to their decommission. Within this, I identify the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions of key accelerator components, I assess and compare the carbon footprint of proposed technologies, and I consider other environmental impacts such as a raw material extraction, transport, and impacts on biodiversity through performing a type of environmental impact assessment called a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

In my role as sustainability lead at ISIS-II, I am performing a simplified LCA of the whole ISIS-II facility, planning our sustainability strategy and developing models alongside our accelerator experts to reduce our environmental impact.

Opportunities

  • Summer 2025 Particle Physics Summer Internship Programme: "Environmental Sustainability R&D for Particle Accelerators" Project
  • Get involved with Sustainable HECAP+

Research interests

Environmental sustainability
Particle accelerators
Environmental impacts
Life Cycle Assessments
Neutron and muon sources
Particle detectors

Selected publications

A life cycle assessment of the ISIS-II neutron and muon source

Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2024) JACoW Publishing (2024) 2909-2912

Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+

(2023)
Sustainable HECAP Initiative, Shankha Banerjee, Thomas Y Chen, Claire David, Michael Düren, Harold Erbin, Jacopo Ghiglieri, Mandeep SS Gill, L Glaser, Christian Gütschow, Jack Joseph Hall, Johannes Hampp, Patrick Koppenburg, Matthias Koschnitzke, Kristin Lohwasser, Rakhi Mahbubani, Viraf Mehta, Peter Millington, Ayan Paul, Frauke Poblotzki, Karolos Potamianos, Nikolina Šarčević, Rajeev Singh, Hannah Wakeling, Rodney Walker, Matthijs van der Wild, Pia Zurita
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