Dr Sam Eden

Biography

"I joined the OU in 2007. An EPSRC Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Life Sciences Interface (2007-10) and a Marie Curie Intra-European Reintegration Grant (2008-11) enabled me to establish a new experimental facility to analyse multi-photon ionization processes in fundamental biomolecules and their hydrated clusters. I have am currently supported by an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (2011-16) and an EPSRC Standard Research Grant (2013-15) both focusing on the production and stabilities of biomolecular cluster anions. As an intermediary between isolated molecules and condensed material, the study of molecular clusters can enhance our understanding of radiation effects on the nanoscale with applications in medicine, nanotechnology, atmospheric physics, and astrochemistry. Before joining the OU, I was a researcher (Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, CNRS Associate Researcher, and Ministry of Research Post-doctoral Researcher) in the Particle Matter Interactions Group led by Bernadette and Michel Farizon at the Nuclear Physics Institute of Lyon."

Research Interest

I am the module chair of Further Material in Medical Physics S829 and a member of the module team for Radiotherapy and its Physics S819. In addition, I am a study advisor for the NMR component of Practical Science S288. My activities on these modules include preparing tutor marked assignments, exam questions, core materials, and slide-casts. I also give on-line tutorials, answer students’ questions on forums, monitor marking and tutor feedback, examine end-of-module presentations, and am a member of the S809 (Imaging in Medicine), S819, and S829 exam boards.