Robert Harrison

R.W. Harrison is currently a Dalton Research Fellow in plutonium fuel technologies at the University of Manchester, based within the Dalton and Henry Royce institutes. Following a position as a radiochemist at the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) he completed his PhD at Imperial College London In 2015 working on non-oxide ceramics fabrication and characterisation. His doctoral work won the McLean Medal for the best published paper and the Tony Evans Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis in ceramics, 2016. Subsequently, he was appointed as an EPSRC- Research Fellow in Nuclear Materials at the University of Huddersfield. He became an integral part of the Microscopes and Ion Accelerators for Materials Investigation (MIAMI) facilities at the University of Huddersfield helping install and commission the EPSRC-funded £3.5 million (EP/M028283/1) MIAMI-2 system – a state of the art dual-ion beam system coupled with TEM as well as mastering in the use of advanced TEM to study radiation damage in nuclear materials. During this time, he has coauthored over 20 peer-reviewed publications across his areas of expertise, including two invited reviews and a text book chapter.