Speakers

Superconducting Electrical Machines
Dr. Mark Ainslie, Kings College London, UK
Nanoscale SQUIDs for a closer look at brain functions
Dr. Thilo Bauch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Superconducting Fundamentals and Theory,
Prof. Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford, UK
Room Temperature Superconductors
Prof. Lilia Boeri, Sapienza University and Enrico Fermi Research Center, Italy
Superconducting Technology for High Energy Physics and Accelerators
Dr. Luca Bottura, CERN, Switzerland
The Synthesis and Chemical Control of New Superconductors
Prof. Simon Clarke, University of Oxford, UK
Superconducting Materials
Prof. Amalia Coldea, University of Oxford, UK
Multiphysics Modelling of a Superconducting Application
Dr. Nathaniel Davies, COMSOL, UK
Bulk Superconducting Materials
Prof. John Durrell, Cambridge University, UK
Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers
Dr. Martina Esposito (CNR, Italy)
Numerical modeling of superconductors
Dr Francesco Grilli, KIT, Germany
Superconducting Theory Part II
Prof. Damian Hampshire, Durham University, UK
Technology Roadmap for Superconductor Electronics
Prof. D. Scott Holmes, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (CSC), USA
Superconducting Applications – MRI
Dr. M’hamed Lakrimi, Siemens Magnet Technology, UK
Superconducting Conductors for Science and Engineering Applications
Prof. David Larbalestier, ASC-NHMFL, Florida State University, USA
Superconducting Applications – Cables: Principles, large-scale Applications and Power Transmission and Superconducting Technology for Fusion
Dr. Joe Minervini, MIT, USA
Cryogenics for Superconducting Applications
Mr. Charles Monroe, Monroe Brothers Ltd, UK
Modelling of SC Applications
Dr. Ben Pine, Dassault Systems UK Limited, UK
Quantum Measurements with Superconducting Circuits
Prof. Irfan Sidiqi, UC Berkeley, California, USA
Basics of Superconducting Materials
Prof. Susannah Speller, University of Oxford, UK
Superconducting Applications and Design Principles of Superconducting Magnets – Part I and Part II
Dr Martin Wilson, Consultant, UK
Value of cryogenic and superconducting technologies for Electric Propulsion of aircraft
Dr Ludocic Ybanez, Airbus, France

Meet the Speakers

Simon J Clarke, University of Oxford

Simon Clarke is a Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford & Official Fellow of Exeter College. The research in his group is geared toward the synthesis of exotic new solids and investigating the interplay of composition, crystal structure and physical properties.

Damian P Hampshire, Durham University

Professor Damian Hampshire is Head of a small Superconductivity Group in the Physics Department in Durham University, England, supervising 5 PhD students with 1 Senior Scientist. Hampshire gives 3 or 4 talks/lectures at International conferences, companies and Universities, and ~25 lectures and ~40 classes to ~300 physics students per year. He is co-author on > 140 papers in refereed journals and several patents. He’s supervised > 40 Masters students, > 25 Ph.D students, > 10 post-doctoral scientists, and has been external examiner for > 10 PhD students. He’s currently a member of the IoP Fellows panel (F. Inst. P.), the EPSRC peer review panel, the UK CDT in fusion, the International advisory Board for MEM workshops, and the Executive Board of the British Cryogenics Council (ex-chair). He’s been PI for > £5M in grants; PI for the European ITER Reference Laboratory for Fusion Energy; Chairman of the International Programme Committee for EuCAS19 (Glasgow); Editor-in-chief of the IoP journal Super. Sci. and Techn. (2006-2013) and founding Director of the Centre for Materials Physics in Durham (2010).

Dr M'hamed Lakrimi, Siemens Healthineers

M’hamed Lakrimi is a senior Key Expert at Siemens Healthineers, based in Oxford. He has designed a few superconducting magnets for Magnetom commercial scanners and worked on other products.

M’hamed graduated from Sussex-University with a DPhil degree in Semiconductor Physics in collaboration with Philips Research Laboratories (UK). He worked for more than 10 years in academia as a research scientist with 9 years spent at The Clarendon Laboratory (The University of Oxford). He carried out electrical and optical spectroscopy measurements on semiconductors at low temperatures, very high magnetic fields and large hydrostatic pressures. In 1998, he moved to industry to work in the field of applied superconductivity. At Oxford Instruments (UK), he was in the core team which developed the world’s first persistent 900 and 950MHz NMR magnets. He developed and perfected all the jointing techniques for Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn wires. He designed and validated the quench heaters on the very high field NMR magnets. In 2006, he joined Siemens Magnet Technology (UK) where he continued to develop new magnet technologies, manufacturing processes, and designing superconducting magnets. He has specialised in all processes from coil winding, assembly, termination, and testing. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The British Cryogenic Council, a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics, and a Chartered Engineer. He has been nominated as a member of the Algerian National Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CNESE).