Emily Jane Watkinson

Emily Jane Watkinson received her Masters of Physics in 2013 and her PhD in 2017. During her PhD, and since 2017 as a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow, Emily Jane has worked as part of a European Space Agency (ESA) funded team at the University of Leicester. The team leads the R&D of americium-based RTG and RHU technologies as part of the ESA RPS program. Emily Jane specifically leads the surrogate fuels research and works with national and international collaborators across industry, academia and research institutions, including the National Nuclear Laboratory (UK) who she has worked closely with since 2013. Her research focuses on the synthesis, behavior and characterization of the properties of americium oxide surrogates, as well as sintering studies. Emily Jane has also worked on civil nuclear power relevant research. In 2018, she became a Visiting Scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Karlsruhe (JRC), Germany to bridge collaborative research between the UL and JRC on research relevant to americium-based RPSs.