SPARC PhD Award 2025 for Dr. Guy Leckenby
Dr. Guy Leckenby (on right)
University of British Columbia, Canada
This year's SPARC collaboration PhD Prize was awarded to Dr. Guy Leckenby from University of British Columbia, Canada, for his thesis entitled “Exotic Decay Measurements at the Experimental Storage Ring for Neutron Capture Processes”.
The ceremony took place in the framework of the 22nd SPARC Topical Workshop at the University of Ioannina, Greece, where the award was handed over by Prof. Reinhold Schuch from the University of Stockholm and the spokesperson of the SPARC collaboration.
The award recognizes excellent experimental work of Dr. Leckenby, focused on the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionized thallium (205Tl81+) ions at the Experimental Storage Ring ESR of GSI/FAIR. This measurement has profound impact on the production of lead (205Pb) in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and can be used to help in determining the Sun’s formation time.
