John Costello Email & Phone Number

Professor John Costello is Professor of Physics. He is a member of the School of Physics (Physical Sciences) and is a founding member of the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology. He served as Head of the School of Physical Sciences from 2004 to 2009, Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Science and Health from 2009 to 2011 and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health at DCU (Oct 1st 2010-Sept 30th 2016). He obtained his Ph.D. (1986) from University College Dublin in laser plasma spectroscopy under the direction of Prof. P K Carroll. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist. His research interests lie mainly in intense laser matter interaction with a special interest in photoionization processes, most recently in XUV Free Electron Laser fields. He is Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the EU H2020 Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme 'EXTATIC' - www.extatic.eu. He is also a member of the UK EPSRC Peer Review College, the advisory boards of a number of international research institutes and conferences and has served on the EPS-EGAS board and a number of Institute of Physics committees in addition to the Irish Government Task Force for the Physical Sciences. He was formerly Chair of the Euratom Fusion Development Association for Ireland. He is the recipient of the 2017 President's Research Award for Science, Health, Engineering and Related Disciplines.Specialties: RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. Intense laser matter interaction (with a special focus on laser produced plasmas and their applications) 2. Plasma diagnostics 3. Imaging and spectroscopy from the IR to the X-ray4. Fundamental photoionization processes with synchrotron and free electron laser sources

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