Susan Keston Associate Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Office Location: Southampton

Specialist Fields

Microprocessor technology; computer software; telecommunications; broadcasting technology; general electronics.

Technical Background

BSc Combined Honours in Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow. Awarded final year class prize in Astronomy.

PhD Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Glasgow. Computational research project involved Hybrid Monte-Carlo supercomputer simulations of Lattice Quantum Field Theory. Awarded Rutherford Prize for PhD research work. Awarded prize for PhD final year research talk.

Two years Post-Doctoral research experience at University of Wales, Swansea. Worked as part of European Research Network and in collaborations with University of Illinois and University of Oxford. Invited speaker at Massachussets Institute of Technology research seminar. Lectured undergraduate students on Quantum Mechanics. Awarded prize for best lecturer by undergraduate students.

Industrial Experience as research engineer in 3G telecommunications at Roke Manor Research (a Siemens Company).

Professional Experience

Certificate in Intellectual Property Law (Queen Mary College, University of London) 2002.

Selected Scientific Publications (published under maiden name Morrison)

• Numerical Portrait of a Relativistic Thin Film BCS Superfluid; Hands, Morrison, Lucini; Phys. Rev. D65 (2002) 036004.
  
• Two-colour QCD at non-zero quark-number density; Kogut, Sinclair, Hands, Morrison; Phys. Rev. D64 (2001) 094505.
  
• QED3 with Dynamical Fermions in an External Magnetic Field; Alexandre, Farakos, Hands, Koutsoumbas, Morrison; Phys. Rev. D64 (2001) 034502.
  
• Critical Behavious in the Dense Planar NJL Model; Hands, Lucini, Morrison; Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 753-756.
  
• Symmetries and Spectrum of SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory at Finite Chemical Potential; Hands, Kogut, Lombardo, Morrison, Nucl. Phys. B558 (1999) 327-346.
  
• Plus 13 further publications (not listed)

Languages

Basic French.