Mr Darren Zeming Chan

Position

Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics

Qualifications

BSc in Mathematical Physics (Honours, Co-op), University of Waterloo, Canada, minor in Pure Mathematics

Academic Background and Previous Positions

I joined the Oxford Laser-Plasma Accelerator Group in October 2022 as a DPhil student under the supervision of Professor Simon Hooker.

I hold a BSc in Mathematical Physics (Honours, co-operative) from the University of Waterloo, Canada. While in the co-op programme there, I had the opportunity to do research work in cold atom physics, particle physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum optics at UWaterloo, CERN (remotely), the National Research Council Canada, and the National Laboratory for AMO Physics Poland.

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

Part A (second-year) Mathematical Methods for Physics
Part A Optics
Prelims (first-year) Electricity and Magnetism

Research Interests 

Laser-plasma interactions: specifically, laser wakefield acceleration of electrons. Development of novel plasma waveguide geometries to guide terawatt laser pulses over multi-centimetre distances at kilohertz repetition rates. Schemes to connect multiple wakefield accelerator stages to reach energies >10 GeV.

Publications

Comment on “Matter-wave interferometry with helium atoms in low-𝑙 Rydberg states”, D. Z. Chan and J. D. D. Martin, Physical Review A 109, 017301 (2024)

Near-Surface Biases in ERA5 Over the Canadian Prairies, A. K. Betts, D. Z. Chan, and R. L. Desjardins, Frontiers in Environmental Science 7, 129 (2019)

E-mail

[email protected]

Links

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/chand

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/subdepartment/atomic-and-laser-physics