Janne Pakarinen receives Tomek Czosnyka Honorary Award
Tomek Czosnyka, a polish nuclear physicist in the University of Warsaw, was an advanced developer of Coulomb excitation and accelerating techniques. In particular, he was one of the key developers of the GOSIA code that is nowadays the premier tool in the analysis of Coulomb excitation data. The award carrying his name was founded in 2014, and has been granted to physicists that continue Czosnyka's legacy in the fields of his scientific activity. This year, the price was awarded to Janne Pakarinen.
Pakarinen received the accolade for "opening new avenues in Coulomb excitation studies by performing, for the first time, electron spectroscopy of Coulomb excited states, following the development of SPEDE (The SPectrometer for Electron DEtection)”. SPEDE was constructed at the Ģֱ and is exploited in experiments at HIE-ISOLDE, CERN. These experiments probe the properties of atomic nuclei and provide insight into various nuclear structure phenomena.
I feel very honoured for receiving this award! It is a result of successful efforts to conduct ambitious electron spectroscopic measurements and underlines the expertise of our physics department in the field. Long-term collaboration with the University of Liverpool, UK, also played a very important role.
The fifth award ceremony took place in the Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics in Piaski, Poland,
on the 8th of September 2023. The SPEDE project was funded through the Research Council of Finland (Academy Research fellow) and the European Commission FP7 programme (Marie Curie Career Integration Grant).
