Guy Leckenby

Guy is doing his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in conjunction with TRIUMF. His project focuses on constructing and characterising the silicon strip detectors used for exotic beta-decay spectroscopy at the heavy-ion storage ring complex at GSI Darmstadt, Germany. In 2017, he graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) and first-class honours, where he worked on ionisation chamber detectors that are currently used to detect the long-lived radioisotopes in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. He is currently working specifically on storage rings but is broadly interested in all things nuclear astrophysics. Outside of physics, you’re most likely to catch Guy either at the skatepark or on the ski hills whilst he awaits the return of the best sport in the world, Ultimate Disc.