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Peter Daniels is Director of
Engineering at Scientific Magnetics, responsible for all mechanical
engineering carried out by the company. He is a highly experienced
mechanical engineer with more than 20 years experience in electro-mechanical
product development in high technology industries, more than half of which
has been spent in applied superconductivity.
Peter has delivered many complicated superconducting magnet systems and
solutions for scientific research, medical, and industrial process
applications. These include very high field NMR magnets, superconducting
cyclotron systems, and vector magnets. He has successfully developed very
high field solenoid and split pair products. Among industrial applications,
Peter has delivered magnetic separation systems from laboratory to
production scale, including the world’s largest superconducting magnet
system for kaolin benefaction. Peter has also developed systems for
operation in remote locations using cryogen free and helium recondensing
technology, including mobile cryogen free magnets for gyrotron
applications. In the field of cryogenics, Peter has led the development of
high power pulse tube cryocoolers for MRI systems, and space qualified
Stirling cycle coolers.
Stephen has designed the cryogenic systems for many large and complicated superconducting magnet projects, including both the CLAS torus and the KLOE solenoid - two of the largest superconducting magnets ever built. He was also project leader for the design and manufacture of the HADES torus magnet at GSI in Germany, a six-coil torus with a diameter of 4 m. After designing a range of highly efficient, vapour-cooled current leads installed at CERN and elsewhere, Stephen was the project leader for a collaboration with CERN to develop 12.5 kA HTS current leads for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As a result, he designed the world's first successful HTS current lead capable of operating at 13 kA, which was instrumental in the adoption of HTS technology in the LHC. More recently, Stephen has developed cryogenic systems operating as low as 1.3 K in a wide range of applications including aerospace, physical sciences, and fault current limiters.
Steve spent four years at Leicester University researching XUV instrumentation for the ROSAT Wide Field Camera all sky survey satellite experiment. Steve then specialised in superconductivity, and was instrumental in the development of the HELIOS compact synchrotron and in the design and manufacture of a set of large, superconducting cold-iron quadrupole magnets for the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in the USA. Later, Steve participated in model dipole development for the new LHC accelerator in collaboration with CERN, and was responsible for the design and manufacture of a high-field multi-pole superconducting wiggler magnet for Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Renuka received her Ph.D. in high temperature superconductivity from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Then she worked for two years at the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, designing India's first superconducting NMR magnet system. She then spent six years as Scientific Officer at the Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT) Indore, with the Indian Department of Atomic Energy. At CAT, she designed the gradient coils and quench protection system for India's first superconducting MRI magnet. She also designed a 5 T superconducting wiggler magnet, a 1.5 T electromagnetic dipole magnet, corrector magnet, quadrupole magnet, ALPHA magnet and energy analyzer dipole magnets for synchrotrons and accelerators. Renuka has also worked for over 3 years on NMR superconducting magnets, mainly on process improvement for quench reduction, during which she developed a tool for conductor sensitivity analysis.
Experienced in parallel programming on cluster computers and supercomputers, Nick designed and commissioned, in collaboration with industry, a unique 1 T 360 mm bore split-coil geometry superconducting MRI magnet. After the conferral of his doctorate in 2003, Nick took on the advanced instrument development, construction and testing of the world's first high resolution, multi-slice simultaneous combined magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography imaging system.
Nick joined Scientific Magnetics in 2005, and has been responsible for some of our most innovative projects, including asymmetric split pairs and vector magnets.