Prof. K.W.D.Ledingham
B.Sc.,Ph.D., D.Sc., F.Inst P., FRSE.
Professor of Physics, University of Strathclyde
William Penney Professor of Laser Nuclear Physics AWE plc
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Contracted Professor Selcuk University, Konya Turkey
CURRICULUM VITAE
Kenneth William David Ledingham
Date of birth: 27 October 1937 Married with two children
Qualifications:
1959 Graduated BSc Hons. (University of Glasgow)
1963 Graduated PhD (University of Glasgow)
Thesis Title “Investigations of Orbital Electron Capture
Branching Ratios by Proportional Counter Methods”
Awarded Thompson Research Prize
1977 Elected F.Inst.P
1995 DSc (University of Glasgow)
Thesis Title: “Resonat Ionisation Spectroscopy and some Application
Appointments:
1962-64 Appointed Asssitant Lecturer University of Glasgow
1965-66 Research Fellow Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia
1967 Appointed Lecturer University of Glasgow set up the weak interaction group
at the Kelvin Lab, University of Glasgow
1975 Sabbatical Leave at the Euratom Research Centre, Geel, Belgium
1987 Appointed Reader - University of Glasgow
1988-94 Consultant to Kratos Analytical, Manchester, UK
1988-92 Member of the International Selection panel of the ILL Reactor Grenoble
for Nuclear and Fundamental Physics
1991 Appointed Director of Scottish Universities Reactor Centre
1992 Member RIS International Advisory Committee
Co-ordinator European network (Germany, Sweden, Crete, Greece, England)
for laser analysis of biomolecules
1997- Elected to the Physics College EPSRC
1998- Re-elected to the RIS International Advisory Committee
1998 Invited member of the VULCAN users committee
2000 Sir William Penney Fellowship (AWE Ltd)
2001 Re-elected to the Physics College
2001 Professor – University of Glasgow
Member of advisory committee of “ Lasers and Applications” 2002
2001 Elected to the High Power Prioritisation Panel RAL
2002 Appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Strathclyde
Appointed William Penney Professor of Laser Nuclear Physics (AWE plc)
2003 Visiting Professor , University of Osaka, Japan
2004 Appointed Visiting Professor to the University of Jena, Geramany
2005 Carl Zeiss visiting Professor of Optics at the University of Jena
2007 Elected Forschungzentrum Dresden Rossendorf fellow
2009/10 Visiting scientist at Forschungzentrum (FZD)Dresden Rossendorf
2010-2015 International Advisory Board of the OncoRay-Cancer Centre Dresden
2011 Invited to be co-principal investigator with Academician Gennady Mesyats to establish
“The Centre of High Energy Laser Physics” at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
2011(4 months) Visiting Scientist FZD Rossendorf Dresden
2012 Visiting Professor Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Lady Davis Fellowship
2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh May 2012
2014 Contracted Professor to establish a laser driven proton and heavy ion therapy centre
(SULTAN) in Konya
2014 Invited on international advisory board for Laser Nuclear Centre in Bucharest (ELI)
Experience:
1981 Assistant Director 1st British Summer School in Nuclear Physics
1983 Director 2nd British Summer School in Nuclear Physics (University of St Andrews)
1983-85 Visiting Lecturer to the University of St Andrews
1983 Set up the Laser Ionisation Studies Group at University of Glasgow.
June Organised the first Women in Physics residential school to encourage
schoolgirls to study physics - sponsored by the Equal Opportunities Commission.
September Director - 2nd National Postgraduate School in Nuclear Physics, St Andrews
1984 February Director first International Workshop on Laser Ionisation (Glasgow)
Organised the second 'Women in Physics' sponsored by EOC.
1987 December With Professor J Hough and Dr N Robertson introduced the
Department’s first Christmas Lectures on Applications of Lasers for School Children.
1990-2 Committee Member and one of the principal lecturers NATO Summer School (SUSSP)
Quantitative Microbeam Analysis 1992
1991-2 Organised Scientific Demonstrations at the Dome of Discovery for children, Glasgow.
1992 September Royal Society Invited lecture tour of China; Anhui, Jilin and Tshinghua
Universities and the Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
1993 Opening Speaker - SERC/IoP Meeting on Laser Ablation at Queen’s University, Belfast
1994 July Committee Member and Session Chairman, RIS-94, Germany
September Committee Member and Lecturer, 1st EPSRC British School of
Laser Spectroscopy,
September Invited Speaker, Plenary Session on Laser Spectroscopy, Ioannina, Greece
1995. Appointed to the International Editorial Advisory Board Analysis Europa
1996 Elected to EPSRC Physics College
1997 September Committee Member and Lecturer, 2nd EPSRC British School of
Laser Spectroscopy
1998 Member of the RIS 98 committee to be held in UMIST June 1998
1999 Scottish Enterprises Trade Mission to Silicon Valley – Academic representative-June
2000 Organised the High Intensity Laser Induced Proton Meeting at Rutherford Laboratory.
2000 Member of the international committee which organised RIS 2000 Knoxville, Tennessee.
2001 Member of the International Review Panel for the Helen Laser Upgrade MOD October
2002 One of the principal collaborators setting up the “Center for Ultra fast Nuclear & Material
Science”, University of Central Florida, Orlando Florida, USA.
2003 Re-elected to the EPSRC Physics College
2004 Elected to the International Committee on Ultra-Intense Lasers (ICUILS)
2005 Member of the EPSRC “Strategic Advisory Team”
2006 Re-elected EPSRC Physics College
2007 Co-Host ISUILS 6 Conference, Pisa, Italy.
2008 Co organiser of the Nuclear Physics workshop of intense laser science in Trento, Italy
2009 International Committee ISUILS 8 Greece
2010 International Committee ISUILS 9 Hawaii
2011 Chairman of the SPIE conference on Medical Applications of Laser Generated
Secondary Sources of Radiation and Particles, Prague, April 2011 Nuclear
2011 Member of the Nuclear Panel User Science at NIF
2011 Chairman of the An “International Initiative for Laser Acceleration Applied to
Bio-Medicine, Imaging and Diagnostics” (IILAABID)
2013 Chairman of the SPIE conference on Medical Applications of Laser Generated
Secondary Sources of Radiation and Particles, Prague, April 2013
2013 Co-Chairman CLEO2013 Nuclear Photonics June 2013
2014 Special Issue Editor Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) Casting Light on Cancer
Therapy
2015 Chairman of the SPIE conference on Medical Applications of Laser Generated
Secondary Sources of Radiation and Particles, Prague, April 2015
2015 ELI-NP International Science Advisory Board Danube Rumania 17-20th May 2015
EPSRC duties (UK Funding Authority)
June 1999 Chairman of EPSRC Nuclear Visiting Panel to University of Surrey .
Sept 1999 JREI panel prioritisation panel.
April 2000 EPSRC Physics Prioritisation panel.
January 2001 New EPSRC Website design team. Feb EPSRC Phyics Moderation panel
March 2001 CASIM Peer Review Panel – joint EPSRC/PPARC/MRC/BBSRC panel to review the future of Daresbury.
March 2002 4GLS Light Source Review Committee (Cross Funding Councils Committee)
May 2002 Member of the International Panel for the EPSRC “Laser Applications Theme Day”
January 2004 EPSRC Physics Prioritisation panel.
January 2005/6 member of the EPSRC SAT committee.
2004-2010 Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
Research Group Leader - Laser Ionisation Studies
3 Academic Staff, 2 post docs, 1 technicians, 5 research students at present at different stages of completion and a number of collaborators from the University of Ioannina (Greece) and FORTH (Crete). Recent collaborations set up with Imperial College, SURRC, Oxford and Paisley Jena.
Supervisor for more than twenty Ph.D. studensts
External Examiner External Examiner for 14 PhD students and 2 M.Sc. students as well as Habilitation Examiner for the University of Cottbus.
Industrial Co-operation:
Gained industrial contracts from Kratos Ltd., Gortex, LGC and Analytical Instruments Ltd, Shell U.K. in the 1980s and early 1990. With HD Technologies won a SMART award in 1995. AWE Ltd 2000
Journal Refereeing: (averaging between 10 papers per annum)
Referee for
1) J of Phys. B, G
2) Royal Society of Chemistry
3) Spectrochim. Acta.
4) Int. J. of Mass Spect. & Ion Processes
5) The Analyst
6) Surface Science
7) J. of Appl. Analytic Spectroscopy
8) J.Chem.Phys, J Phys.Chem
9) Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
10) Phys Rev Lett
11) Physical Review
12) Chem.Phys.Lett.
13) Nature
14) Nature Physics
Published Papers
More than 250 refereed publications in journals and book chapters.
Science Funding Refereeing:
Member of the EPSRC Physics College
Regular referee for EPSRC grant proposals for both Physics,Chemistry and Engineering Committees. NRC Canada, British Council, Soros Funding.
Research Grants Awarded
Year Title Awarding Grant Names of Grant Holders Body Awarded
1982/83 Laser Ionisation in Gases SERC £30,000 Ledingham & HEP
1983/84 Laser Ionisation in Gases SERC £13,000 Ledingham & HEP
1985 Laser Ionisation in Gases SERC £20,000 Ledingham & HEP
1986 Laser Ionisation in Gases SERC £3,500 Ledingham & HEP
1985/86 Laser Trace Analysis Wolfson £60,000 Ledingham & Cahill
1986/89 Laser Mass Spectrometer RS Paul Fund £67,343_Ledingham
1986/87 An Assessment of RIMS DOE £14,000 Ledingham with Scott and Baxter (SURRC)
1986/89 Ultra Trace Analysis SERC £98,000 Ledingham, Jennings and Singhal
1988/89 Detection of Vapours MoD £100,000 Ledingham, Jennings and Singhal
1989/91 Detection of Vapours MoD £74,000 Ledingham, Jennings and Singhal
1989/90 Argon Ion Gun RS Paul Fund £23,000 Ledingham, Jennings and Singhal
1989/90 Argon Ion Gun Kratos Ltd £20,000 Ledingham, Jennings and Singhal
1991 Laser System RAL Laser Loan Pool
1991 Royal Society Fellowship awarded to Dr Li Wang
1992-93 Royal Society Wong Fellowship awarded to Dr Peng WeiXian
1992 British Council Studentship + Bench Fees to Weijie Jia
1992-94 Detection of Vapours DRA (MoD) £230,000_Ledingham, Jennings and Singhal
1993-94 Laser Detection of Biomolecules EC 59,000ECU Ledingham and Kosmidis
1994 Laser System RAL Laser Loan Pool
1994 Awarded a second hand Quantel Laser system from The Rutherford Laboratory.
1994 Royal Society Royal Fellowship awarded to Shi-liang Wang
1994 Turkish Government studentship given to Mamdi Kilic
1994 Femtosecond Laser Mass Spectrometry Programme accepted for Rutherford and Crete.
1995 Spent two months direct access at RAL and three weeks TMR programme in Crete
1996 Two months at RAL and three weeks in Crete.
1997 EPSRC £295,956 GR/L60333
EPSRC £254383 GR/L37458 with the Universities of Reading, London, Queen’s, Oxford and RAL
1998 4 tickets TMR time with the University of Ioannina at RAL to study biomolecules.
1999 4 tickets access time to VULCAN
1999 NERC Grant for particulate matter with Steve Hankin £93,000
2000 4 tickets direct acces time on ASTRA
2000 EPSRC grant GR/N33188/01 £1209419
2001 Sir William Penney Fellowship £258891 AWE Ltd
2002 AWE grant for laser induced nuclear isomer production £20000
2002 Basic Technology Grant £4,000,000 “Developing Laser Plasma Accelerators”
With D.Jaroszynski, K.W.D.Ledingham (Strathclyde) and IC, RAL, Oxford and Daresbury.
2003 AWE grant for Laser Induced Nuclear Physics £140,000
2005-2008 SUPA 1 Laser Driven Plasma Nuclear physics £377,000
2006 Co-investigator Basic Technology Grant EP/E032907/ £4874043. “Laser Energised Radiation
SourceTechnology
2007-2010 AWE grant for “Laser Driven Nuclear Physics” £190,444
2009-2011 DSTL grant “High Intensity Laser Production of X-rays £72,000
2013- 2015 University of Selcuk, Konya £26112 per annum
Invited Talks since Initiating Laser Ionisation Research at Glasgow
1 1st National Postgraduate School in Nuclear Physics, Manchester, September 1981
2 Shell Research Centre, Thornton, Chester, October 1981
3 University of Glasgow (Natural Philosophy), February 1982
4 University of Liverpool (Physics), May 1982
5 University of Manchester (Physics), June 1982
6 University of Birmingham (Physics), October 1982
7 Rutherford Laboratory, March 1983
8 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA, May 1983
9 University of Glasgow (Chemistry), May 1983
10 2nd National Postgraduate School in Nuclear Physics, St Andrews, September 1983
11 University of Glasgow (Mathematics), October 1983
12 University of Glasgow (Astronomy), October 1983
13 Institute of Physics - Scottish Branch, November 1983
14 International Workshop in Laser Ionisation, University of Glasgow, February 1984
15 Institute of Physics - Manchester Branch, November 1984
16 University of Edinburgh (Physics), January 1985
17 University of Oxford (Physics), March 1985
18 University of Dortmund, March 1985
19 Joint Research Centre Euratom, Geel, Belgium, April 1985
20 High Energy Physics Summer School, Rutherford Laboratory, September 1985
21 3rd National Postgraduate School in Nuclear Physics, St Andrews University, September 1985
22 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, January 1986
23 University of Glasgow - Lunchtime Talks, January 1986
24 University of Aberdeen, May 1986
25 British Aerospace, Bracknell, 1987
26 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, November 1987
27 University of Birmingham, February 1988
28 Daresbury Laboratory, April 1988
29 ILL Reactor Laboratory, Grenoble, May 1988
30 4th Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium, York, June 1988
31 ICI, Runcorn, October 1988
32 University of Edinburgh (Chemistry), October 1988
33 University of Glasgow (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), November 1988
34 Kratos Analytical, Manchester, July 1989
35 Int. Conference for Analytical Chemistry (SAC 89), Cambridge, August 1989
36 University of Glasgow - Lunchtime Talks, October 1989
37 University of East Anglia, Norwich, November 1989
38 National Physical Laboratory, January 1990
39 Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Surrey, March 1990
40 University of East Anglia, May 1990
41 Optogalvanic Spectroscopy Institute of Physics, University of Strathclyde, August 1990
42 University of Strathclyde - October 1990
43 University of Glasgow (Chemistry Department) - October 1990
44 Royal Society of Chemistry - Laser Spectroscopy, East Anglia, March 1991
45 Quantitative Microbeam Analysis Summer School (SUSSP) - RIMS, August 1992
46 University of Anhui, China, September 1992
47 University of Jilin, China, September 1992
48 Tshingchua University, China, September 1992
49 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, September 1992
50 Queen’s University, Belfast 1993
51 Edinburgh Internation Science Festival 1993
52 University of Sheffield Royal Microscopy Lecture May1994
53 University of Mainz Germany July 1994
54 University of Barcelona, Spain July 1994
55 University of Ioannina, Greece 1994
56 University of East Anglia 1st British Summer School in Laser Spectroscopy1994
57 Opened Set 95 University of Aberdeen March 1995
58 I.O.P.Congress, Telford Conference Centre, March1995
59 23rd Scottish Microscopy Symposium, November 1995
60 Biological Applications of Inorganic Mass Spectrometry, IFR Norwich 1995
61 Fettes College June 1996
62 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory November 1996
63 University of Nottingham Chemistry Department Dec 1996
64 Heriot Watt Chemistry Department May 1997
65 2nd British Post-Graduate School in Laser Spectroscopy East Anglia September 1997
66 University Of Glasgow Physics June 1998
67 RAL Summer meeting June 1998
68 RIS 98 Meeting UMIST 1998
69 University of Glasgow Chemistry Dept Nov 1998
70 University of St Andrews Physics Nov 1998
71 Imperial College Physics, Dec 1998
72 Caledonian University Feb 1999
73 High Intensity Conference France March 1999
74 IOP Plasma Meeting April 1999
75 Livermore Laboratory June 1999
76 AWE Aldermaston December 1999
Invited Talks in 2000
77 Open University January 2000
78 Dundee University February 2000
79 University of Glasgow (Phys.Soc) February 2000
80 Atomic systems in Extrem Fields Dresden March 2000
81 ECLIM 2000 Prague June 2000
82 University of Manchester July 2000
83 EURESCO Meeting at Maratea Italy Super Intense Laser Fields September 2000
84 RIS 2000, University of Tennessee October 2000
85 ESF ULTRA Meeting -University of Coinbra -Portugal October 2000
Injvited Talks in 2001
86 University of Reading, January 2001
87 University of Milan March 2001 - Laser Induced Beams Workshop
88 American Society of Chemistry -San Diego -April 2001
89 World Global Science Meeting – British Delegation –May 2001
90 University of Osaka – Chemistry Dept -June 2001
91 Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquee – Ensta –Paris June 2001.
92 2001 British Workshop in Positron Physics and Applications June 2001
93 University of Bordeaux September 2001
94 Higher Grade Chemistry Interest Conference Glasgow City Hall Nov 28th 2001
Invited Talks in 2002
95 The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, March ,Japan, 2002
96 IOP Congress Laser Production of Protons Brighton April, 2002
97 CLEO Tutorial Lecture Long Beach California May, 2002
98 Universities of Birmingham and Warwick May Royal Society of Chemistry, 2002
99 29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Montreux, Switzerland
100 IQEC 2002 Moscow Russia. June 2002
101 JAERI Symposium on Control of Lasers for Strong Field Phenomena,
Kansai, Japan September. 2002
102 11th JST International Symposium on Control om Molecules in intense Laser Fields
Tokyo, Japan September 2002.
103 The University of Jena, Germany October 2002
104 The Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany October 2002
105 44th APS –DPP Meeting, Orlando Florida, USA, November 2002.
106 Particle Sources with High Intensity Lasers ESF meeting Paris December 2002
Invited Talks in 2003
107 Clarendon Laboratory University of Oxford February 2003
108 “The RAL Lecture” Rutherford Appleton Laboratory March 2003
109 OECD Laser Bottlenecks Conference, Paris March 2003
110 The RAL Training week, March 2003
111 The Lund Laser Centre, University of Lund, Sweden, April 2003.
112 The GSI Laser Heavy Ion Workshop, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany May 2003
113 38th The Particle Therapy Conference Chester, UK May 2003
114 21st International Conference on Photochemistry, Nara, Japan, July 2003
115 International Symposium on Atoms, Molecules and Clusters in Intense Laser Fields,
Tokyo, Japan July 2003
116 Visiting Professor in Laser Nuclear Physics, University of Osaka, Japan,
Sept-Nov 2003
117 Japan Physical Society Meeting, University of Okayama.September 2003
118 Laser Ion Beam Workshop at SPring-8 at Himeji.
119 Seminar at ILE, Osaka University. September 2003
119 Seminar at Advanced Photon Research Centre, JAERI .October 2003
120 Seminar at Central Institute of the Electric Power Industry, Tokyo. October 2003
121 Seminar at Osaka City University.November 2003
122 Japanese Society of Plasma Science, Mito City. November 2003.
Invited Talks in 2004
123 Seminar Technische Universitaet, Darmstadt January 2004.
124 High Intensity Laser Matter Interaction, University of Jena, March 2004
125 International Nuclear Physics Conference, Goteborg, Sweden, June 2004
126 International Workshop on Lasers and Nuclei, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 2004.
127 International Sumposium on Ultra Fast Intense Laser Science, Palermo, Sicily, 2004
128 8th Workshop of fast Ion –Atom Collisions, Debrecen, Hungary, September 2004
129 Workshop on High Intensity Laser Science, Kloster Banz, Germany November 2004
130 Seminar at the University of Jena, November 2004
Invited Talks in 2005
131 Seminar University of York February, 2005
132 DPG International Year of Physics 2005, Berlin Germany, March.
133 RAL training week invited talk March 2005
134 RANK Prize Symposium on High Intensity Laser Plasma Interaction, April, 2005
135 BIPM Meeting, Paris, May 2005
136 MBI Presentation, Berlin May 2005
137 Soreq Nuclear Centre Presentation, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2005
138 University of Dresden, Germany, Summer School August 2005
139 Superstrong Fields in Plasmas 3rd International School, Varenna September 2005
140 University of Jena, Germany,October 2005.
141 ELI meeting, ENSTA, Paris, December 2005
Invited Talks in 2006
142 University of Plymouth, January 2006
143 FAIR Meeting, Daresbury, January 2006
144 26th International Workshop on Physics of High Energy in Matter, Hirschegg, Austria, January 2006
145 23rd Conference of the Nuclear Societies in Israel, Dead Sea, February 2006.
146 BA Meeting at the Science Centre, Glasgow
147 Imperial College, March 2006.
148 IOP Nuclear Physics Conference York, April 2006
149 VII International Workshop on Application of Lasers in Atomic Nuclei Resaerch,
Poznan, Poland May 29th-June 1 2006.
150 29th ECLIM Meeting, Madrid, 11-16th June 2006
150 XII International Conference in Laser Optics – 2 Invited presentations- St Petersburg,
Russia June 26-30, 2006
151 Isuils 5 Meeting, Lijiang, China November/December 2006
Invited talks in 2007
152 iThemba Nuclear Laboratories, Capetown, South Africa January 2007
153 GSI Colloquium Darmstadt, January 2007
154 WE-Haraeus Seminar, February 2007
155 SUPA 1 Presentation, University of Strathclyde, February 2007
156 Oncology Meeting University of Strathclyde, March 2007
157 Royal Society Meeting London September 2007
158 ISUILS 6 Meeting Sicily September 2007
159 FZD Presentation Dresden, September 2007
160 Max Planck Institute Dresden Nov 2007
161 University of Jena, Germany Nov. 2007
Invited Talks in 2008
162 Two lectures in High Intensity laser physics, Cairo, January 2008
163 University of Strathclyde, February 2008
164 DPG Spring Meeting, Darmstadt, March 2008
165 ECT Meeting, Trento July 2008
166 Rutherford Appleton VULCAN upgrade meeting July 2008
167 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory October 2008
Invited Talks in 2009
168 Wilfred Galster Memorial Meeting May 2009
169 Nuclear Physics Institute, Bucharest, October 2010
170 ELI Conference Braqsov, Romania October 2010
171 ELI Workshop, Palaiseau, Paris, December 2010
Invited Talks in 2010
172 University of Strathclyde, February 2010
173 3rd International Workshop on Ultrafast Laser Technology, Cairo, April 2010
174 AWE Presentation, Aldermaston July 2010
175 3 Lectures at the SUSSP International Summer School, Heriot Watt,
August 2010
176 Plasma Meeting University of Strathclyde, October 2010
177 ISUILS 9 Maui Hawaii, December 2010.
Invited Talks in 2011
178 Nuclear Astrophysics workshop at NIF Notre Dame University, London, March 2011
179 9th International OSA Network of Students (IONS) Conference, Salamanca
April 2011
179 NIF Workshop, Washington May 2011
Invited talks in 2012
180 Herbrew University Jerusalem, March 2012
181 Soreq Nuclear Centre, Israel May 2012
182 Carpathian Summer School of Physics, Romania, June 2012
183 LA3NET Ganil, France October 2012
184 Israel Laser Conference Tel Aviv December 2012
Invited Talks in 2013
185 Freeman Hospital Newcastle Lasers in Oncology Feb 2013
186 Laser Production of Protion Beams in “Topical Problems in Biophotonics”
Nizhny Novogorod, Russia, July 2013
187 SPIE Conference, Prague April 2013
188 Laser Proton Therapy Working Group, Reno, USA September 2013
189 University of Selcuk, Konya, Turkey April/May 2013 Lecture 1
190 University of Selcuk, Konya, Turkey April/May 2013 Lecture 1
191 CHILI workshop December 2013 Tel Aviv Israel
Invited Talks in 2014
192. University of Strathclyde Seminar February 2014
193 Afyon Workshop, Turkey March 2014
194 Lasers for Life Royal Society London June 2014
195 Turkish Physical Society 31st International Physics Congress, Bodrum 21-24 July 2014
Invited Talks 2015
196 1st ELI-NP Summer School 21-25 September Bucharest-Magurele Rumania
Invited Talks 2016
197 Charterhouse School Guilford England January 2016
198 CHILI 2016 Tel Aviv Israel Feb 22nd -24th 2016
Last 10 Years publications
2003
206 Femtosecond Ionisation and Dissociation of Laser Desorbed Nitro-PAHs
A.D.Tasker, L.Robson, K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny, P.McKenna, C.Kosmidis,
D.A.Jaroszynski
Int.J.Mass Spectr 2003, 225, 53-70
207 Experimental Study of Proton Emission from 60 fs, 200 mJ 1 Hz "Table-Top" Laser Pulses
Interacting with Solid Targets
I.Spencer, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, T.McCanny, R.P.Singhal, E.L.Clark, K.Krushelnick,
P.A.Norreys, R.J.Clarke,P.Foster, D.Neely, A.J.Langley, E.J.Divall, C.J.Hooker
Phys. Rev. E. 2003, 67, 046402
208 Experimental Study of Proton Emission from 60 fs, 200 mJ 1 Hz "Table-Top" Laser Pulses
Interacting with Solid Targets
I.Spencer, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, T.McCanny, R.P.Singhal, E.L.Clark, K.Krushelnick,
P.A.Norreys, R.J.Clarke,P.Foster, D.Neely, A.J.Langley, E.J.Divall, C.J.Hooker
Virtual J.of Ultrafast Science, Vol2 Issue 5 May 2003
209 Laser Induced Nuclear Physics and Applications
K.W.D.Ledingham, R.P.Singhal, P.McKenna, I.Spencer.
To Appear in “Relativistic Optics” Eds G.A.Mourou, C.P.J.Batty, M.D.Perry, Springer
210 Applications for Nuclear Phenomena Generated by Ultra-Intense Lasers
K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, R.P.Singhal
Science, 300, 1107-1111, 2003
211 Demonstration of Fusion Evaporation and Direct-Interaction Nuclear Reactions Using
High Intensity Laser Plasma Accelerated Ion Beams
P.McKenna, K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny, R.P.Singhal, I.Spencer, M.I.K.Santala, F.N.Beg,
K.Krushelnick, M.Tatarakis, M.S.Wei, E.L.Clark, R.J.Cklarke, K.L.Lancaster, P.A.Norreys,
K.Spohr, R.Chapman, M.Zepf
PRL 91, 7, 075006, 2003
212 The Effect of Target Heating on Ion-Induced Reactions in High Intensity Laser-Plasma
Interactions
P.McKenna, K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny, R.P.Singhal, I.Spencer, E.L.Clark, F.N.Beg,
K.Krushelnick, M.S.Wei, J.Galy, J.Magill, R.J.Clarke, K.L.Lancaster, P.A.Norreys
Accepted for publication APL
213 Proton Beams Generated with High-Intensity Lasers: Applications to PET Isotope
Production
S.Fritzler, V.Malka, G.Grillon, J.P.Rousseau, F.Burgy, E.Lefebve, E.d’Huemieres
P.McKenna, K.W.D.Ledingham.
APL 83, 3039, 2003
214 Propagation instabilities of high intensity laser-produced electron beams
M. Tatarakis, F. N. Beg,E., L. ClarkA., E. Dangor, M-S. Wei, P. A. Norreys, M. Zepf,
K.W.D. Ledingham,T. J. Goldsack M. A. Sinclair, R. D. Edwards, R. G. Evans and K. Krushelnick
. PRL, 90, 175001, 2003
215 Propagation instabilities of high intensity laser-produced electron beams
M. Tatarakis, F. N. Beg,E., L. ClarkA., E. Dangor, M-S. Wei, P. A. Norreys, M. Zepf,
K W.D. Ledingham,T. J. Goldsack M. A. Sinclair, R. D. Edwards, R. G. Evans and K. Krushelnick
Virtual J.of Ultrafast Science Vol2, Issue 5, 2003
216 Analytical Instrumentation. Performance Characteristics and Quality G.Currell
Review
K.W.D.Ledingham
Contemporary Physics, 44, 158-159, 2003.
217Laser- driven photo- transmutation of 129I – a long-lived nuclear waste product
K.W.D.Ledingham, J.Magill, P.Mckenna, J.Yang, J.Galy, R.Schenk, J.Rebizant, T.Mccanny,
S.Shimizu, L.Robson, R.P.Singhal, M.S.W.ei, S.P.D Mangles, P.Nilson, K.Krushelnick,
R.J.Clarke,
P.A.Norrey.
J.Phys.D: Appl. Phys. 36, L79-L82, (2003)
2004
218 Nuclear Reactions in Copper Induced by Protons from a Petwatt Laser-Foil Interaction
J.M.Yang, P.McKenna.K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny, S.Shimizu, L.Robson, R.J.Clarke,
D.Neely, P.A.Norreys, M.S.Wei, K.Krushelnick, P.Nilson, S.P.D.Mangles, R.P.Singhal
APL 84, 675-677, 2004
219 Nuclear Reactions in Copper Induced by Protons from a Petwatt Laser-Foil Interaction
J.M.Yang, P.McKenna.K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny, S.Shimizu, L.Robson, R.J.Clarke,
D.Neely, P.A.Norreys, M.S.Wei, K.Krushelnick, P.Nilson, S.P.D.Mangles, R.P.Singhal
February 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.
220 High Intensity –Laser-Driven Z pinches
F.N.Beg, E.L.Clark, M.S.Wei, A.E.Dangor, R.G.Evans, A.Gopal, K.L.Lancaster, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, P.A.Norreys, M.Tatarakis, M.Zepf, and K.Krushelnick
Phys.Rev. Lett. 92, 095001 (2004)
221 Target Charging Effects on Proton Acceleration During High-Intensity
Short-pulse laser-solid interactions
F.N.Beg, M.S.Wei, A.E.Dangor, A.Gopal, M.Tatarakis, K.Krushenlick, P.Gibbon,
A.L.Clark, R.G.Evans, .K.L.Lancaster, P.A.Norreys, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, M.Zepf
Applied Physics Letters 84, 2766, (2004)
222 Characterisation of 7Li(p,n)7Be neutron yields from laser producerd ion beams for
Fast neutron radiography
K.L.Lancaster, S.Karsch, H.Habara, F.N.Beg, E.L.Clark, R.Freeman, M.H.Key, J.A.King, R.Kodama, K.Krushelnick, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, C.D.Murphy, P.A.Norreys, R.Stephens, C.Stoeckl, Y.Toyama, M.S.Wei, M.Zepf
Physics of Plasmas, 11, 3404-3408, 2004
223 Characterisation of Proton and Heavier Ion Acceleration in Ultrahigh-Intensity Laser
Interactions with heated Target Foils
P.McKenna, K.W.D.Ledingham, J.M.Yang, L.Robson, T.McCanny, S.Shimizu, R.J.Clarke,
D.Neely, K.Spohr, R.Chapman, R.P.Siunghal, K.Krushelnick, M.S.Wei, P.A.Norreys
Phys.Rev.E 70, 036405, 2004
224 Observation of Filamentation of High Intensity Laser Produced Electron Beams
M.S.Wei, F.N.Beg, E.L.Clark, A.E.Dangor, R.G.Evans, A.Gopal,K.W.D.Ledingham,
P.McKenna, P.A.Norreys, M.Tatarakis, M.Zepf, K.Krushelnick,
Phys.Rev.E 70, 056412, 2004
225 Neutron production by fast protons from ultraintense laser-plasma interactions
J M Yang, P McKenna, K W D Ledingham, T McCanny, L Robson, S Shimizu, R J Clarke et al,
Journal of Applied Physics, 96, 11, 6912-6918, 2004
226 Nuclear Reactions in Copper Induced by Protons from a Petwatt Laser-Foil Interaction
J.M.Yang, P.McKenna.K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny, S.Shimizu, L.Robson, R.J.Clarke,
D.Neely, P.A.Norreys, M.S.Wei, K.Krushelnick, P.Nilson, S.P.D.Mangles, R.P.Singhal
Virtual Journal of Ultra-Fast Science, vol 3,2 (2004)
227 High Power Laser Production of Short-Lived Isotopes for Positron Emission Tomography
K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, T.McCanny, S/Shimizu, J.Yang, L.Robson, J.Zweit, J.M.Gillies,
J.Bailey, G.N.Chimon, R.J.Clarke, D.Neely, P.A.Norreys, J.L.Collier, R.P.Singhal, M.S.Wei,
S.P.D.Mangles, P.Nilson, K.Krushelnick, M..Zepf
J.Phys.D Appl.Phys. 37, 2341-2345, 2004.
2005
228 Volumetric Intensity Dependence on the Fomation of Molecular and Atomic Ions
within a High Intensity Laser Focus
L.Robson, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, T.McCanny, S.Shimuzu, J.M.Yang, C-G.Wahlstrom,
R.Lopez-Martens, K.Varju, P.Johnsson, J.Mauritsson
J.American Society for Mass Spectrometry 16, 82-89, (2005)
229 Interaction Mechanism of Some Alkyl Iodides with Femtosecond Laser Pulses
C.Kosmidis, P.Siozos, S.Kaziannis, L.Robson, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, D.A.Jaroszynski
J.Phys.Chem. A 109, 1279-1285, (2005)
230 Broad Energy Spectrum of Laser-Accelerated Protons for Spallation-Related Physics
P.McKenna, K.W.D.Ledingham, S.Shimizu, J.M.Yiang, L.Robson, T.McCanny,
J.Galy, J.Magill, R.J.Clarke, D.Neely, P.A.Norreys, R.P.Singhal,
K.Krushelnick and M.S.Wei
Phys.Rev.Lett. 94, 084801 (2005)
231 Laser Accelerated Ions and Electron Transport in Ultra-Intense Laser Matter Interaction
M.Roth, E.Brambrink, P.Audebert, A.Blazevic,, R.Clarke, J.Cobble, T.E.Cowan
J.Fernandez, J.Fuchs, M.Geissel, D.Habs, M.Hegelich, S.Karsch, K.Ledingham, D.Neely, H.Ruhl, T.Schlegel and J.Schreiber.
Laser and Particle Beams, 23, 95-100, (2005)
232 Laser Induced Nuclear Physics and Applications.
K.W.D.Ledingham
Nuclear Physics A 752, 633c-644c, (2005)
233 REVIEW: Nuclear physics with ultra-intense lasers – Present status and future prospects
Ravi P Singhal, Kenneth W D Ledingham and Paul McKenna
Recent Research Developments in Nuclear Physics Vol 1 December 2004 pages 147-169
ISBN 81-7895-124-X
234 Interaction Mechansim of Some Alkyl Iodides with Femtosecond Laser Pulses
C.Kosmidis, P.Siozos, S.Kaziannis, L.Robson, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna and
D.A.Jaroszynski
J.Phys.Chem. A 2005, 109, 1279-1285
235 Laser Accelerated High Quality Ion Beams
M.Roth, A.Blazevic, E.Brambrink, M.Geissel, T.E.Cowan, J.Fuchs, A.Kemp, H.Ruhl, P.Auderbert,
J.Cobble, J.Fernandez, M.Hegelich, S.Letzring, K.Ledingham, P.McKenna, R.Clarke, D.Neely,
S.Karsch, D.Habs, J.Schreiber
Hyperfine Inreactions (2005) DOI 10.1007/s10751-005-9202-4 Springer 2006
2006
236 Molecular Hydrogen Ion Elimination from Alkyl Iodides Under Strong Laser Beam
Irradiation.
C.Kosmidis, S.Kaziannis, P.Siozos, A.Lyras, L.Robson, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, D.A.Jaroszynski
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 248, 2006, 1-8.
237 Desktop Accelerators – Going Up
K.W.D.Ledingham
Nature-Physics Vol.2 January 2006 11-12
238 Laser Plasma Acceleration of Quasi-Monoeneregetic Protons from Microstructured Targets
H.Schwoerer, S.Pfoten hauer, O.Jackel, K-U.Amthor, B.Liesfeld, WR.Sauerbrey,
K.W.D.Ledingham and T.Ezirkepov.
Nature 439, 445-448, 2006
239 The Detection of Short Lived Radioisotopes as a fast Diagnostic for Intense Laser
Solid Interactions.
R.J.Clarke, K.W.D.Ledingham, P.McKenna, L.Robson, T.McCanny, D.Neely, O.Lundh
F.Lindau, C-G.Wahlstrom, P.T.Simpson, M.Zepf
Applied Physics Letters 89, 141117 2006
240 Teilchenbeschleunigung und Unruh-Strahlung
Ken W.D.Ledingham and Roland Sauerbrey
Physik in Unserer Zeit – Wiley-VCH 1/2006 (37) 8.
241 Radiological Characterisation of Photon Radiation from Ultra-High-Intensity
Laser –Plasma and Nuclear Reactions
R.J.Clarke, D.Neely, R.D.Edwards, P.N.M.Wright, K.W.D.Ledingham, R.Heathcote, P.McKenna,
C.N.Danson, P.A.Brummitt, J.L.Collier, P.E.Hatton, S.J.Hawkes, C.Hernandez-Gomez,
P.Holligan, M.H.R.Hutchinson, A.K.Kidd, W.J.Lester, D.R.Neville, P.A.Norreys, D.A.Pepler,
T.B.Winstone, R.W.W.Wyatt and B.E.Wyborn
J.Radiological Protection 26, 277-286, 2006
242 The Quest for Laser Induced Isomer Production
Klaus M Spohr, Robert Chapman, Scott Hanvey, Ken Ledingham, Tom McCanny, Paul McKenna,
Lynne Robson and Martin Shaw
Journal of Modern Optics 53, 2633-2640, 2006
243 Laser-driven ion acceleration and nuclear activation" (Book Chapter) in
“Lasers and Nuclei”
P.McKenna, K W D Ledingham, and L Robson
edited by H Schwoerer, J Magill and B Beleites, Springer Heidelberg (2006) pp 91-108,
244 High Power Laser Production of PET Isotopes (Book Chapter) in “Lasers and Nuclei”
L.Robson, P.McKenna, T.McCanny, K.W.D.Ledingham, J.M.Gillies and J.Zweit
Edited by H.Schwoerer, J.Magill, and B.Beleites Springer Heidelberg (2006) 191-203
245 A vision for laser induced particle acceleration and applications
K.W.D.Ledingham
Hyperfine Interactions 171, 69-81, 2006
2007
246 Scaling of proton acceleration driven by petwatt-laser-plasma interactions
L.Robson,P.T.Simpson,R.J.Clarke, K.W.D.Ledingham, F.Lindau, O.Lundh,, T.McCanny,
P.Mora, D.Neely, C-G Wahlstrom, M.Zepf and .,McKenna
Nature Physics 3, 58-62, 2007
247 Lateral Electron Transport in High Intensity laser Irradiated Foils Diagnosed by
Ion Omission
P.McKenna, D.C.Carroll, R.J.Clarke, R.G.Evans, K.W.D.Ledingham, F.Lindau, O.Lundh,
T.McCanny, D.Neely, A.P.L Robinson, L.Robson, P.T.Simpson, C.-G.Wahlstrom and M.Zepf
Phys.Rev.Lett. 98, 145001-145004, 2007.
248 Low-and medium-mass ion acceleration driven by petawatt laser plasma interactions;
P. McKenna, F.Lindau, O.Lundh, D.C.Carroll, R.J.Clarke, K.W.D.Ledingham, T.McCanny,
D.Neely, A.P.L.Robinson, L.Robson, P.T.Simpson, C.-G.Wahlstrom and M.Zepf
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 49, B223 (2007)
249 Laser–Driven Proton Oncology – a Unique New Cancer Therapy
K.W.D.Ledingham, W.Galster and R.Sauerbrey
British Journal of Radiology 80, 855-858, 2007
2008
250 Study of photo-proton reactions driven by bremsstrahlung radiation of high-intensity
laser generated electrons"
K. M. Spohr, M. Shaw, W. Galster, K. W. D. Ledingham, L. Robson, J. M. Yang, P. McKenna,
T. McCanny, J. J. Melone, K.-U. Amthor, F. Ewald, B. Liesfeld, H. Schwoerer and R. Sauerbrey
New J. Phys. 10, 043037 (2008).
251 Laser-driven nuclear physics
P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham, and G. Jaly
Karlsruher Nuklidkarte, G. Pfennig, C. Normand, J. Magill, Th. Fanghanel (Editors),
78-86 (2008).
252 Spectral shaping of laser generated proton beams
S. M. Pfotenhauer, O. Jäckel, A. Sachtleben, J. Polz, W. Ziegler, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, K.-U.
Amthor, M. C. Kaluza, K. W. D. Ledingham, R. Sauerbrey, P. Gibbon, A. P. L. Robinson
and H. Schwoerer
New J. Phys. 10, 033034 (2008).
2010
253 Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science V
K. Yamanouchi, A. Giulietti, and K. Ledingham (Editors),
Springer-Verlag,Berlin(2010). ISBN: 978-3-642-03824-2
254 Laser-driven particle and photon beams and some applications
K. W. D. Ledingham and W. Galster
New J. Phys., 12, 045005, (2010).
2012
255. The Characterisation of Permanent Magnetic Quadrupoles for Focussing Proton Beams"
J.J. Melone, K.W.D. Ledingham, T. McCanny, T. Burris-Mog, U. Schramm,
R. Grötzschel, S. Akhmadaliev, D. Hanf, K.M. Spohr, M. Bussmann , T. Cowan ,
S. M. Wiggins, M. R. Mitchell
NIM A 676 126-134, (2012)
257. A Comparison of Hard X-ray Production from Various Targets in Air using a short pulse
kHz laser with Photon production from a High Power Multifilament Laser Beam from the
Same Targets in Air.
K.W.D.ledingham, S. S.Abuazoum, T.McCanny, J.Melone,K.Spohr, U.Schramm, S.D.Kraft
http://arkiv.org/abs/1106.4152 ID.No 149730
258. A Mass Spectrometric Investigation of Isomers of Butane
Yilmaz Alic, Hamdi Sukur Kilic, Haziret Durmus, Mevlut Dogan.,KIen W.D. Ledingham,
Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 26, 893-905 (2012)
259 The Future of Laser Nuclear Physics,
K.W.D.Ledingham
Carpathian Summer School, Romania July 2012 to be published
2013
260 Proton Acceleration by an Ultrashort LASER Interaction with Structured Dynamic
Plasma Targets,
A.Zigler, S.Eisenmann, M.Botton, E.Nahum, E.Schleifer, Y.Pomerantz, F.Abricht, J.Branzel,
G.Priebe, S.Steinke, A.Andreev, M.Schnuerer, W.Sandner, D.Gordon,P.Sprangle,
K.W.D.Ledingham
PRL 110, 215004 (2013)
261 Operation of a Picosecond Narrow Bandwidth Laser-Thomson-Backscattering
X-ray Source
A.Jochmann, A.Irman, U.Lehnert, J.P.Couperus, M.Kuntzsch, S.Trotsenko, A.Wagner,
A.D.Debus, H.P.Schlenvoigt, U.Helbig, S.Bock, K.W.D.Ledingham, T.E.Cowan,
R.Sauerbrey, U.Schramm
Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 309 (2013) 214-217.
262 High Resolution Energy-AngleCorrelation Measurement of Hard X-rays from
Laser Thomson Backscattering
A.Jochmann, A.Irman, M.Bussmann, J.P.Couperus, T.E.Cowan, A.D.Debus, M.Kuntzsch,
K.W.D.Ledingham, U.Lehert, R.Sauerbrey, H.P.Schlenvoigt, D.Seipt, Th. Stohlker, D.B.Thorn,
S.Trotsenko, A.Wagner,U.Schramm
PRL.111,114803, (2013)
263. Applications of Ultra-intense, Short Laser Pulses
Ken Ledingham
Ultrafast Non linear Optics Robert Thomson, Christopher Leburn, Derryck Reid Eds pg 227-250
ISBN 978-3-319-00016-9
Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
2014
264 Towards Laser Driven Hadron Cancer Therapy: A Review of Progress
K.W.D.Ledingham, P.R.Bolton, N.Shikazono and C.-M.Charlie Ma
Appl. Sci. 2014, 4, 402-443:doi:10.3390/app4030402
2015
265 Proceedings of SPIE Volume 9514
Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons and Ions III; and Medical Applications of Laser Generated beams of Particles III
Editors:
Kenneth W.D.Ledingham, Eric Esaray, Klaus Spohr, Carl B.Schroeder, Paul McKenna, Florian J. Gruner
Paul R. Bolton
2016
266 The Wavelength Dependent Production of Carbon Clusters via Fragmentation of of the C60
I Yasemin Gündoğdu1 Hamdi Sukur Kilic1, Abdullah Kepceoğlu1, 2,Kenneth William David Ledingham1,3
Mehmet Akbas and Melut Dogan
To be submitted
267 Identification of the Isomers of Xylene Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Method
Abdullah Kepceoğlu1, Hamdi Sukur Kilic1,2, Yasemin Gündoğdu1, and Kenneth William David Ledingham1,3
To be submitted
