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Dr. Isaac Tobin

Senior Technical Officer (School Office - Engineering)
      
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Dr. Isaac Tobin

Senior Technical Officer (School Office - Engineering)

 ISAAC.TOBIN@tcd.ie

 


I am a scientist from Dublin, Ireland, with a passion for research, innovation, and education. I believe that education is a powerful catalyst for positive societal change. Over the course of my career, I have developed and led a wide range of research projects, with a particular focus on multidisciplinary collaboration. I thrive in building effective research environments, managing complex projects, and fostering a culture of curiosity and continuous learning. Outside of my professional work, I maintain interests in electronics, computers, and amateur radio (callsign: EI2HMB). I also enjoy gardening, sea swimming, and model making.
Scally, Enda and O'Reilly, Fergal and Hayden, Patrick and Tobin, Isaac and O'Sullivan, Gerry, An Investigation of Laser Produced Lead-Tin Alloy Plasmas between 10 and 18 nm, Atoms, 8, (4), 2020, p75 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
de Faoite, D and Tobin, I and Ulyanov, A and Roberts, OJ and Shortt, B and Hanlon, L and McBreen, S and Stanton, KT, Growth of trigonal gadolinium fluoride in a glass-ceramic for scintillation and optical applications, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 38, (14), 2018, p4739--4748 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
, Localisation of gamma-ray interaction points in thick monolithic CeBr 3 and LaBr 3: Ce scintillators, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2017, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
, Laser-assisted vacuum arc extreme ultraviolet source: a comparison of picosecond and nanosecond laser triggering, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2016, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
, Performance of a monolithic LaBr 3: Ce crystal coupled to an array of silicon photomultipliers, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2016, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
, Development of glass-ceramic scintillators for gamma-ray astronomy, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2015, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Isaac Tobin, Optical and EUV studies of laser triggered Z-pinch discharges, 2014, Thesis, PUBLISHED
G. O'Connell, I. Tobin and J. G. Lunney, Early stage optical emission in nanosecond laser ablation, Applied Physics A, 110, 2013, p731 - 734 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
I. Tobin, L. Juschkin, Y. Sidelnikov, F. O'Reilly, P. Sheridan, E. Sokell, and J. G. Lunney, Laser triggered Z-pinch broadband extreme ultraviolet source for metrology, Applied Physics Letters, 102, (20), 2013, p203504 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Zakharov, VS and Juschkin, L and Zakharov, SV and Sokell, E and Tobin, I and Lunney, J, Laser-initiated discharge between ablated liquid metal rotating disk electrodes, Proc. of 19th Int. Conf. on High-Power Particle Beams and 4th Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conf.(Karlsruhe), 2012, pp292--5 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
  

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My primary research background is in plasma physics and optics. I completed my PhD in 2014 the Laser and Plasma Applications Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). View My Thesis: https://www.tara.tcd.ie/items/9ac5e0c1-dca7-474b-99e5-211d9cbf3195 I have a 1st class honours degree in Physics from Dublin Institute of Technology, now Technical University of Dublin (TUD). View My Undergraduate Thesis: http://preab.org/ChaoticMagneticReversal_Thesis_20.March.09.pdf I held a number of postdoctoral research posts from 2015-2020 in the School of Physics, University College Dublin (UCD). Under a European Space Agency (ESA) grant, I contributed to the development of glass-ceramic scintillators for space science applications. See A Video: https://youtu.be/dhQUUluNqb4 Read A Publication: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/620/1/012002 While in UCD I contributed to EIRSAT-1, Ireland's first satellite, helping build the ground station and develop the onboard radio equipment. I was so proud to see this mission launch and have my name etched on it orbiting the Earth. Read Their Story: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/eirsat-1-dublin-ucd-space-ireland-research-satellite-burn-up-de-orbit I managed the research and development lab at SiriusXT Ltd. for four years (2020-2024), working on the world's first lab scale soft X-ray tomogoraphy system for high-resolution biological cell imaging. Visit Their Website: https://siriusxt.com