Papers, a submitted preprint, and IAEA oral and poster contributions. Status is labelled; nothing here is marked published unless it is.
My PhD is digital twin model development for the divertor in a fusion power plant: through-life management of the heat-exhaust component, under the loads and duty a reactor would actually see.
The work sits in three related problems.
Diagnostic design: how to instrument a plasma-facing component so a twin is constrained by measurements, not only by simulation.
Reconstruction of fields from sparse sensors: inferring what the divertor is doing from far fewer measurements than a high-fidelity model contains.
Prognostics and health management: turning that reconstructed state into remaining-life and through-life decisions, rather than stopping at a snapshot of the present.
A first-author review of digital twins in fusion is in IEEE Access (2025). Diagnostic-layout work is in a submitted preprint and in IAEA contributions, listed below.
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.7454942
Choosing thermocouple layouts that maximise expected information gain about divertor heat-flux and temperature fields, with MAST-U as the case study. Submitted; preprint on SSRN.
doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561920
Abstract IEEE Accepted manuscript White Rose
First-author review of digital twins in fusion, with divertor, breeder blanket, and magnets treated as modular candidates for an integrated framework. Open access; published 17 April 2025.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.103156
Clinical evaluation of CT- and MR-based automatic contouring against the EPTN neuro-oncology atlas. I am a co-author from the Mirada Medical DLCExpert work.
Oral at IAEA Headquarters, Vienna. BED as a systematic way to place divertor thermocouples rather than ad-hoc layouts, with digiLab collaborators.
Poster. The Diagnostic Designer emits machine-readable diagnostic layouts for BED (for example digiLab’s Uncertainty Engine) and related optimisation, rather than leaving that step in a one-off notebook.