Guest Speakers

Nicola McConkey is an experimental particle physicist with a particular interest in neutrino interactions and detector development. 

She works in three large international collaborations Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), DUNE and MicroBooNE, using liquid argon detectors to measure neutrino interactions.  Personal highlights of this are leading the assembly and installation of SBND, and making the first high statistics measurements of the electron neutrino interactions on argon with MicroBooNE. 

She also works on the Quantum Technologies for Neutrino Mass collaboration. This new experiment will develop and exploit novel technologies for measuring the neutrino mass.

Dr. Hannah Wakeling is a postdoctoral researcher in particle accelerator environmental sustainability at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Physics, at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span the intersection of particle accelerator research with sustainability.

She performed a Life Cycle Assessment and developed a sustainability strategy for the proposed future ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source. She leads efforts to provide tools and sustainability guidelines tailored to the fields of accelerator and high energy physics research. She consults and collaborates with many sustainability projects including being a co-organiser of the Sustainable High Energy Physics Conference 2024, 2025 and 2026, being a member of the Laboratory Directors Group Sustainability Working Group, being a member of the recently funded EPITA Horizon-Europe project Work Package 2 (Strategic Communication, Outreach and Sustainability), being a member of the Sustainable HECAP+ initiative, and through being a 2026 IUPAP Accelerator Engagement Ambassador.