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Students

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ISIS Neutron and Muon Source offers many opportunities to students: from school work experience placements to PhD Studentships.

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School Students

​ISIS Neutron and Muon Source offers opportunities for school students through the Science and Technology Faciities Council work experience and apprenticeship schemes. 

Undergraduate Students

We have excellent ongoing schemes for undergraduate students, including summer and sandwich placements. 

  • Based at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source?
    Resources for students based at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
  • New Starter Explainer
    A brief guide to people who are new to site and would like to know a bit more about how we fit in to STFC, UKRI and the Harwell Campus.
  • PhD Studentships
    Applications are now open for PhD positions co-funded by the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.
  • Placement years at ISIS
    A paid industrial placement at ISIS will give you the opportunity to be a part of this vibrant scientific community whilst developing many skills benefitting your future career.
  • STFC Graduate Scheme
    STFC recruits over 20 graduates a year into a development programme designed to bridge the gap between academic and professional qualifications.
  • Summer Student Scheme
    ​The ISIS summer student placement scheme allows undergraduate students studying for a degree to gain experience working in the scientific environment.
  • University Visits
    Tours of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source are available for higher education groups.
  • Where can an ISIS industrial placement year take you?
    We speak to some previous sandwich students to find out what they're doing now, and how their placement helped them get there.

Postgraduate Students

For students who would like to use ISIS Neutron and Muon Source as part of their PhD, those who are already based at ISIS, and those who are interested in applying for a studentship.​​

Case Studies

​Learm more a​bout the staff at ISIS by reading some of our profile articles. 

  • Adroja (Devashibhai)
    In October 2019, Devashibhai Adroja (known as Adroja) will have been at STFC for 20 years. He was drawn to ISIS by “the fantastic science” and the science programme fits well with his research, which is on strongly correlated electron materials.
  • Anna Herlihy portrait
    Anna Herlihy
    From Diamond Sandwich student to ISIS Facility Development Student
  • Benji Moore: placement year to PhD, with a publication along the way!
    During his industrial placement at ISIS, Benji Moore worked on a project that saw him publish a paper as its first author. He is now studying for a PhD and has returned to ISIS to do experiments to support his thesis.
  • Case Study: Harry Sullivan on completing a graduate placement at CERN
    Orla Fernie, Science Communications Placement Student spoke to Harry Sullivan about his experience completing a placement at CERN in 2021 as part of his graduate scheme.
  • ​Chris Lawson and one of the helium fridges
    Chris Lawson
    Technical manager for ISIS ultra-low temperature (ULT) experiments
  • Christopher Robinson
    Christopher is an Electronics Technician with the Radio Frequency RF Group’s Linac section. After taking his GCSEs, he joined the RAL Apprenticeship Scheme and joined ISIS.
  • Dan Faircloth
    Dan Faircloth has been working in ISIS for over 17 years and hasn’t looked back since, working to develop ISIS’s international reputation for ion source development.
  • Debbie Greenfield - Pushing Boundaries for 40 years
    From the Higgs Boson to the first neutrons in TS2, four decades of change in RAL’s scientific engineering world has spanned the extraordinary career of Debbie Greenfield. Retiring this month, we take a look back at her incredible achievements.
  • Dr Lamar Moore
    Insights into our ISIS Scientific Software Group Leader
  • Sarah stood outside Sans2D
    Dr Sarah Rogers
    Meet Sarah, our soon-to-be Large Scale Structures and Engineering Division Head at ISIS…
  • End of Year Placement Interviews 2020/21
    ​As we welcome the next batch of placement students, we wanted to get in touch with the 2020/21 cohort and ask them to reflect on their time in ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.
  • End of Year Placement Interviews 21/22
    As we welcome the next batch of placement students, we wanted to get in touch with the 2020/21 cohort and ask them to reflect on their time in ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.
  • Gemma sat at a desk with a geiger counter
    Gemma Morgan
    ISIS Health Physics apprentice
  • Genoveva Burca
    We profile Genoveva on her journey through ISIS from PhD to Beamline Scientist.
  • Graham Appleby
    Graham has had a winding career journey to become the ISIS Business Development Manager, ticking most of the major radiation sources across Europe off his globe-trotting list.
  • Hannah Wakeling - evaluating the environmental impact of ISIS-II
    Hannah is a post-doctorate research assistant in particle accelerator sustainability at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science at the University of Oxford.
  • ISIS Accelerator Physicist Haroon Rafique whilst working at CERN
    Haroon Rafique
    New ISIS starter Haroon tells us of his journey from University to CERN and now to ISIS where he works as an Accelerator Physicist.
  • Harry Nolan in the lab
    Harry Nolan
    From work experience student to apprentice, and now undergraduate…
  • Hayley Cavanagh
    Beam Physics Operations Section Leader
  • Helen Popland
    Helen Popland has been an engineer at ISIS since September 2020. For an international woman in engineering special, we spoke with Helen to get to know her better and learn about her experiences at ISIS.
  • International Women's Day: the inspirational Jacqui Cole!
    Prof Jacqui Cole is Head of Molecular Engineering at Cambridge, BASF / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data-driven Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials and a joint appointment at ISIS, but she is not the traditional academic!
  • Jacob Simms - Continuously improving
    Jacob Simms has been a mechanical support technician at ISIS for 10 years!
  • Jasmin Hind in the lab
    Jasmine Hind
    After finishing her placement year in the deuteration lab in the support laboratories, Jasmine Hind will go straight into a full time role within the facility.
  • Jonathan Speed
    A sneak peek into the life of an accelerator engineer...
  • Koji next to EMU
    Koji Yokoyama
    Beamline scientist on the muon instrument EMU
  • Leo Rozanov
    While studying for his A-levels, Leo did a week of work experience at ISIS that confirmed his decision to study physics at university, and strengthened his applications for universities in the United States.
  • Madi in the mechanical workshop
    Madi Woollard
    Apprentice in the mechanical workshop
  • Matilda Rhodes
    From Industrial Placement to ISIS Facility Development PhD student.
  • Meet the Cryogenics Team 2021
    We sat down and spoke to 5 members of our award-winning Cryogenics team to find out what life is like as a member of the team.
  • ISIS Detector group
    Meet the Detector Group 2022
    We sat down with three members of the ISIS Detector Group to find out what life is like as a member of the team.
  • Meet the Placement Students 2022/23
    A talk with our new placement students on their time at ISIS so far...
  • Meet the Placement Students 2023-24
    It’s been a few months since our industrial placement students started their roles. Orla Fernie, Science Communication Placement Student (is placement student-ception a thing?) spoke to some of her colleagues about their roles here.
  • The four students featured in the article
    Meet the Placement Students 2024-25
    Each year, ISIS hosts a cohort of industrial placement students, offering a year away from their university studies to gain experience working in a variety of roles. We spoke to 4 students about their placements.
  • Shaun Olok-Jacobs, Madeleine Mcroberts and Jared Swift - all ISIS Sandwich students for 2021/22
    Meet the Sandwich Students 2021
    ISIS Neutron and Muon Source would like to welcome our new cohort of Sandwich Students for 2021.The sandwich student scheme offers students the opportunity to spend a year away from their degrees and gain valuable work experience.
  • Mohamad Kurdi portrait
    Mohamad Kurdi
    From placement student to STFC graduate scheme.
  • Olivia Tindle
    Olivia Tindle: being stubborn in the face of adversity
    ISIS placement student Olivia has been determined to be a physicist since she was 15, and is now well on her way to getting there, despite struggling at college and being told she should try something else.
  • Peter Baker Staff Profile
    Dr Peter Baker is an Instrument scientist working at the ISIS facility responsible for the MuSR muon instrument.
  • Ranggi Ramadhan
    From ISIS Facility Development Student to Post-doctoral researcher at the ILL
  • Richard Waite
    Richard joined ISIS’ Scientific Computing division after finishing a PhD as part of the ISIS Facility Development Studentship scheme.
  • Ryan Allinson
    Ryan is an Electronics Technician within the Synchrotron Section of the Radio Frequency (RF) Group.
  • Albin and Sara outside target station 1
    Sara Karbassi and Albin Nilson
    New Duty Technicians in the Main Control Room
  • Sarah Fisher at her desk
    Sarah Fisher
    Diagnostics software section leader
  • Skip Doran
    Cryogenics technician Skip tells us about her work in the helium recovery centre at ISIS.
  • Tristan Canfer
    Tristan tells us about his journey through ISIS from apprentice to full-time staff member.
  • Where can an ISIS industrial placement year take you?
    We speak to some previous sandwich students to find out what they're doing now, and how their placement helped them get there.
  • Will Halcrow - engineering collaboration with the ESS
    To celebrate the UK and the European Spallation Source's collaboration, we talked to Will Halcrow, one of the mastermind engineers behind setting up the LoKI instrument.
  • Zoë Bowden
    After joining ISIS straight from school, Zoë is now Head of ISIS Operations and Deputy Director.
  • Zoe Clark
    Zoë Clark
    Zoë is a mechanical design engineer at ISIS on the Graduate scheme, but her route here was not straightforward, going via research, consultancy, and the powerlifting world championships.