Simon Sels
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65708 (+41 22 76 65708) 3/1-070 (Office) CERN Fellow |
Research interest: Dr. Simon Sels is a nuclear physicist currently working as a fellow at CERN. His research is focused towards the study of ground-state properties of exotic nuclei using decay and laser spectroscopy of (trapped) radioactive isotopes. He obtained his PhD in 2018 at KU Leuven in Belgium, funded by the Institute for Innovation through Science and Technology (IWT). For his PhD work, he helped in the development of the in-gas(-jet) laser ionization spectroscopy (IGLIS) technique for which he a.o. designed and commissioned RFQ ion guides. Additionally, he studied shape staggering and shape coexistence in the neutron-deficient mercury region using in-source resonance laser-ionization spectroscopy. Currently, he is working for the MIRACLS project at ISOLDE-CERN in Switzerland, which aims to perform collinear laser spectroscopy on trapped ion bunches in a Multi-Reflection-Time-of-Flight device. |
