Dr Dan Faircloth BEng(Hons) MSc PhD MInstP MIET CEng
Senior Research Engineer
Low Energy Beams Group Leader
ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK
[email protected]
"Dark Matters:Twisted But True" (Season 2) - Expert Interviewee
7 episodes, 60 mins, Factual Entertainment series for Discovery Science
March 2012, TX US: August 2012.
Ep. 4: "Risky Radiation"
A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.
Ep. 7: "Do You See What I See?"
N-Rays transformed physics in France. Until they turned out not to exist.
Ep. 8: "Degenerate Science"
Nazis persecute Einstein on the grounds that his ‘Jewish Phyisics’ had no practical use.
"Naked Science:Big Bang" - Scientific Advisor
Pioneer Productions
60 mins documentary for National Geographic 2008. Tx 2009.
Worked closely with the director and writer as the main scientific advisor: A journey though the first second of the universe.
Helped to develop the overall structure and content of the program.
Developed the brief for CGI animations.
This program was used as the basis for the "Big Bang" episode of the award winning series "How the Universe Works" for Discovery Channel.
“Weird Connections” - Scientific Advisor
30 mins documentary for Discovery Channel 2008. Tx 2010.
Provided explanations for paramagnetism and diamagnetism for the levitating frog experiment. Developed the brief for CGI animations.
BBC Radio 4 - Inside Science - Show us your Instrument
"25 Years of ISIS" - Expert Interviewee
BBC Radio Oxford, January 2011.
"The Large Hadron Collider" - Expert Interviewee
Series of 4 podcasts for the Open University, November 2009.
Featured on the BBC Radio 4 Big Bang site.
CERN Accelerator Schools (CAS)
Introduction to Accelerator Physics
University of Granada, Spain, 28 October - 9 November, 2012
"Particle Sources" - 1 hour lecture Slides
Specialised School on Ion Sources
Senec, Slovakia, 29 May - 8 June 2012
"Negative Ion Sources (Magnetron, Penning)" - 1 hour lecture Slides
"Technological Aspects: High Voltage" - 1 hour lecture Slides
Specialised School on High Power Hadron Machines
Bilbao, Spain, 24 May - 2 June 2011
"Ion Sources I" - 1 hour lecture
"Ion Sources II" - 1 hour lecture Slides Lecture notes
Oxford University
John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science Lecture Series
"Ion Sources for High Power Accelerators" - 1 hour lecture Video
Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, 17th November 2011
Imperial College London
Accelerator Physics Lecture Course
"Particle sources" - 1 hour lecture
Blackett Laboratory, London, 2013, 2014, 2015.
"Ion Sources for High Power Accelerators" - 1 hour lecture
Blackett Laboratory, London, 20th January 2012
RAL Talking Science Lecture Series
"Power Mad- A Journey Though the Scale of Power" -1 hour lecture Video
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, April 2012
"Inside a Linear Particle Accelerator"
A short film for the ISIS website. February 2011.
Camera, editor and narrator.
Inside a linear particle accelerator from ISIS on Vimeo.
Science and Engineering Ambassador
Institution of Engineering and Technology Mentor
Royal Society Summer Exhibition
ISIS tours and open days
