Paddy Regan

Prof. Paddy Regan holds the NPL Chair in Radionuclide Metrology at the University of Surrey. He did his BSc (Hons) in Physics at the University of Liverpool (1988) and DPhil in experimental nuclear physics at the University of York (1991). He joined the academic staff in the Physics Department at Surrey in 1994 as a lecturer after holding postdoctoral research positions at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and the Australian National University in Canberra. He was subsequently promoted to a Personal Chair in Experimental Nuclear Physics in 2009. Since 2013, he has been the NPL-Surrey Professor in Radionuclide Metrology and is part-based at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) where he is the Science Area Leader in the Nuclear Metrology group. He has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers on nuclear physics and radiation detection research and given more than 100 invited international conference and workshop presentations. He has been the spokesperson for research programs to characterize the internal structure of radioactive isotopes. He has successfully supervised more than 40 doctoral students in research topics including nuclear structure physics; evolution from nuclear vibrational to rotational collective modes; measurements of electromagnetic transition rates between nuclear excited states; the origin of high-angular momentum states in nuclei with limited valence space; total absorption decay spectrometry and nuclear fission waste decay data; radiation detection system design and commissioning; radiation dosimetry and radiobiological effects; environmental radioactivity assay; and the provision of radiological and radiopharmaceutical standards and reference materials for environmental source measurements. In his spare time Paddy likes to play golf off a modest sub-18 handicap.