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Biography
Dr. Ed Simpson is a nuclear physicist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications at the Australian National University. His research focuses on nuclear collisions and how they can be used in fundamental science, from the quantum mechanics that govern fusion to the reactions that power stars. Increasingly, his research seeks to build a bridge between foundational nuclear science and nuclear applications, from particle beam cancer therapies to understanding the effects of radiation on spacecraft.
Dr Simpson is also a former Australian Science Policy Fellow, contributing to science policy at the Department for Agriculture, Water and the Environment, and the Department of Education, Skills and Employment. Here, he supported Australia’s delegation to the International Panel on Climate Change and helped develop to the 2021 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. He is also a member of the Australian Space Agency Technical Advisory Group on Space Medicine and Life Sciences, advising on radiation related spaceflight hazards.
Research Interests
- Nuclear fusion
- Nuclear structure
- Radiation effects in space
- Proton and hadron beam cancer therapy
- Astrophysics
Education/Academic qualification
Theoretical Phyics, PhD, University of Surrey, UK
Award Date: 30 Oct 2010
Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics, Master, University of Surrey, UK
Award Date: 1 Jun 2006
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Research output
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Colliding heavy nuclei take multiple identities on the path to fusion
Cook, K. J., Rafferty, D. C., Hinde, D. J., Simpson, E. C., Dasgupta, M., Corradi, L., Evers, M., Fioretto, E., Jeung, D., Lobanov, N., Luong, D. H., Mijatović, T., Montagnoli, G., Stefanini, A. M. & Szilner, S., Dec 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 7988.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Origins of Incomplete Fusion Products and the Suppression of Complete Fusion in Reactions of Li 7
Cook, K. J., Simpson, E. C., Bezzina, L. T., Dasgupta, M., Hinde, D. J., Banerjee, K., Berriman, A. C. & Sengupta, C., 15 Mar 2019, In: Physical Review Letters. 122, 10, 102501.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access44 Citations (Scopus) -
Isospin Symmetry at High Spin Studied via Nucleon Knockout from Isomeric States
Milne, S. A., Bentley, M. A., Simpson, E. C., Baugher, T., Bazin, D., Berryman, J. S., Bruce, A. M., Davies, P. J., Diget, C. A., Gade, A., Henry, T. W., Iwasaki, H., Lemasson, A., Lenzi, S. M., McDaniel, S., Napoli, D. R., Nichols, A. J., Ratkiewicz, A., Scruton, L., Stroberg, S. R., & 4 others, 15 Aug 2016, In: Physical Review Letters. 117, 8, 082502.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access14 Citations (Scopus) -
Competition between fusion and quasifission in the angular momentum dependent dynamics of heavy element synthesis reactions
Tanaka, T., Hinde, D. J., Dasgupta, M., Williams, E., Vo-Phuoc, K., Simenel, C., Simpson, E. C., Jeung, D. Y., Carter, I. P., Cook, K. J., Lobanov, N. R., Luong, D. H., Palshetkar, C., Rafferty, D. C. & Ramachandran, K., May 2023, In: Physical Review C. 107, 5, 054601.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi-modal mass-asymmetric fission of 178Pt from simultaneous mass-kinetic energy fitting
Swinton-Bland, B. M. A., Buete, J., Hinde, D. J., Dasgupta, M., Tanaka, T., Berriman, A. C., Jeung, D. Y., Banerjee, K., Bezzina, L. T., Carter, I. P., Cook, K. J., Sengupta, C., Simenel, C., Simpson, E. C. & Stoyer, M. A., 10 Feb 2023, In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 837, 137655.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access8 Citations (Scopus)
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Cluster Dynamics in Nuclear Fusion
Simpson, E., Freer, M. & Moro, A.
1/04/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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