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ThorEA Biographies
Roger Barlow is a Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, and Head of the Particle Physics Group there, one of
the largest research groups in the UK. He has over 30 years experience in the use of particle accelerators, in particular on the
TASSO, JADE, OPAL, BaBar and CALICE experiments. He helped to found the Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science and
Technology, and is Principal Investigator on the CONFORM project which is presently constructing the world’s first non-scaling
FFAG accelerator, and is Chair of the ThorEA organisation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Higher
Education Academy.
Bob Cywinski is a University Research Professor and Dean of Applied Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, with 35 years
experience in the application of neutron and muon beams in condensed matter science. He was a member of the team that built
and commissioned the ISIS spallation neutron source at RAL in Oxfordshire, and for over fifteen years has been central to the
European Spallation Source project. He is currently a partner in the EU funded FP7 ESS Preparatory Phase Project. He has
Chaired the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA), and has recently been re-elected as President of the International
Society for µSR Spectroscopy in Europe (ISMS-E) and Vice President of the global ISMMS. He has had advisory roles at JINR-
Dubna, TRIUMF (Canada) and ILL (France), J-Parc (Japan) and is Vice-Chairman of ThorEA and Programme Manager of the
CONFORM Applications package.
Leonardo Vila Nova Goncalves is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University.
His present activities concern the identification and simulations of core and fuel designs options for an ADSR driven by one or
multiple ns-FFAG accelerators with the purpose of assessing the potential of this innovative accelerator technology and the
strengths and weaknesses of ADSR-thorium energy systems when compared to viable alternatives on suitable timescales. Prior
to his activities at Cambridge, he carried out his PhD research in the field of nuclear waste transmutation in ADS at the ENSM
of St. Etienne in France and at CERN in Switzerland, where he had already worked as a fellow associate from 1999 to 2004,
performing several thermo-hydraulic studies for the LHC detectors.
Adonai Herrera-Martínez received his MBA degree from INSEAD in July 2009. Previously, he worked as a consultant in Capacity
Building for Energy Systems for a year at the UNDP, in HQ and West Africa. His worked included policy advising to governments
in the region on costs and benefits of different energy for poverty reduction programmes. Until 2007, Adonai was working at
CERN, managing the design of a 5 MW neutron spallation source within the EURISOL-DS project. In 2004, he obtained his PhD
in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Cambridge, in the topic of Transmutation of Nuclear Waste in Accelerator-Driven
Systems. From 2001 to 2004, PhD his research was carried out at the Emerging Energy technologies group at CERN, led by Prof.
Carlo Rubbia. In 2000, he obtained his MEng from the Universistat Politècnica de València (Spain). Adonai’s interests focus
on strategic and technical solutions to develop sustainable energy systems and on energy policy advising, in particular for
emerging and developing countries.
Giles Hodgson is an independent Business and Policy Advisor. He has a BSc(Hons) Management Sciences degree, an MPhil in
Technology Policy from Cambridge University and is CEng qualified. His management consultancy background, combined with
his policy advice experience (to the Conservative party) gives him insights into both the commercial and political worlds. His
current work is focused on energy policy, low carbon generation alternatives and consumption reduction.
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