teaching
Teaching, demonstrating and student supervision at the University of Birmingham.
Supervision
- Y3 Group Study — Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Unknown Isotopes Identification (2023–2026). Students acquire experimental spectra, generate Geant4 training data, design a portable scintillator detector with preamplifier and shaping-amplifier electronics, and train an isotope-identification model.
Laboratory demonstrating
- Y3 Nuclear Laboratory (2022–2026) — radiation-detection techniques across $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ and X-ray sources, spectroscopy, and detector timing with a time-to-amplitude converter (TAC).
- Y1 Physics Laboratory (2022) — introductory experimental methods and error analysis.
Notes and material
Geant4 introduction
An informal introduction to Geant4 for new group members, drawn from the INFN Geant4 courses and other public material, with Birmingham-specific examples (neutron sources, scintillator arrays, DSSD telescopes).
Slides and example code to be linked here.