Professor Malcolm Joyce
Distinguished Professor & Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder, Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise)Research Interests
Malcolm Joyce is Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Lancaster University and interim Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise. He was previously Cross-faculty Associated Dean for Research (ADR) and ADR for the Faculty of Science and Technology and, as Head of Engineering (2008-2015) he led a significant expansion of the department at Lancaster including the introduction of Chemical Engineering. Prior to Lancaster he spent 4 years in industry most recently as Technical Director of his spin-out business, Hybrid Instruments Ltd.
Malcolm pioneered nuclear engineering at Lancaster, establishing programmes covering nuclear research, teaching and engagement. He has a track record of over £25M in competitively sought research grants from UKRI, industry and government agencies. Recent examples of research published by Malcolm and his team include: uranium enrichment measurement for in-factory applications (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169191), digitial twin opportunities for nuclear fuel manufacturing (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2024.113013) and nuclear cogeneration of methanol and acetaldehyde (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c03317). He is currently Principal Investigator on: 'Capture gamma-ray Assessment in Nuclear Energy' (C-GANE, EP/X038327.1, £1.6M)', 'Autonomous Inspection for Responsive and Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Manufacture' (AIRS-NFM, EP/V051059/1, £1.9M); 'Advancing Location Accuracy via Collimated Nuclear Assay for Decommissioning Robotic Applications' (ALACANDRA, EP/V026941/1, £1.5M) and 'AMS-UK: A UK Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility for Nuclear Fission Research' (EPSRC, EP/T01136X/1, NNUF phase 3, £2.8M).
Malcolm's research group currently comprises 4 post-doctoral research associates, 1 Experimental Officer and 4 research students. He is author on > 350 articles and sole author on Engineering impact case studies submitted to both REF2014 and REF2021.
Malcolm is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and the European Journal of Physics N (EPJ-N). He serves on the UK Government's Nuclear Industry Research Advisory Board (NIRAB), the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM), the UKAEA Programme Advisory Committee and is co-chair of the National Nuclear User Facility (NNUF).
He was awarded the James Watt medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in 2014 and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2016. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Nuclear Institute and author of: 'Nuclear Engineering: A Conceptual Guide to Nuclear Power', published by Butterworth-Heinemann in 2017.
Malcolm welcomes proposals for PhD study in the areas of radiation detection and measurement, and isotopic monitoring techniques relating to the environmental assessment of radiological consequences.
PhD Supervision Interests
Nuclear safeguards, contamination monitoring, radiation imaging, environmental assay, robotic deployment.
Small Scale Experiments for Tritium Breeding (SSETB)
09/01/2025 → 31/03/2026
Research
Core Equipment 2024
01/01/2025 → 30/06/2026
Research
DSI: Late-stage commercialisation for time-of-flight neutron spectrometer
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2026
Research
DSI: Late-stage commercialisation for time-of-flight neutron spectrometer
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2026
Research
Application of compact gamma-ray detectors on robotic platforms for locating radionuclides in confined spaces
01/07/2024 → 31/03/2025
Research
Application of compact gamma-ray detectors on robotic platforms for locating radionuclides in confined spaces
01/07/2024 → 31/03/2025
Research
Nuclear Fuel-debris Characterisation via Multimodal Spectroscopy and Analytics (NuFAMSA)
01/11/2023 → 31/03/2026
Research
Capture Gamma-ray Assessment in Nuclear Energy (C-GANE)
16/10/2023 → 15/10/2027
Research
Detection and quantification of water in spent fuel
02/10/2023 → 01/10/2027
Research
Advanced borehole trials for land quality monitoring applications in nuclear decommissioning
01/04/2023 → 30/09/2023
Research
Feasibility study of waste water detritiation (EPSRC IAA funded)
01/04/2023 → 31/03/2025
Research
JUNO: A Network for Japan - UK Nuclear Opportunities
01/03/2023 → 29/02/2024
Research
Radiation Hardened Robotics for Remote Inspection
01/11/2022 → 31/12/2025
Research
Process intensification of a high throughput wastewater detritiation
01/10/2022 → 31/03/2025
Consultancy
Ground Level Enhancement Event Monitor (Implementation Phase)
01/09/2022 → 31/03/2024
Research
Ground Level Enhancement Event Monitor (Implementation Phase)
01/09/2022 → 15/03/2025
Research
Autonomous Inspection for Responsive and Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Manufacture (AIRS-NFM)
06/09/2021 → 05/10/2025
Research
Ground Level Enhancement Event Monitor (GLEEM)
28/06/2021 → 27/06/2022
Research
Advancing Location Accuracy via Collimated Nuclear Assay for Decommissioning Robotic Applications
08/04/2021 → 07/01/2026
Research
RAIN Extension Stream B
01/04/2021 → 31/03/2022
Research
RAIN extension Stream A
01/04/2021 → 30/09/2021
Research
STFC IAA: Impact Acceleration Account 2021
01/04/2021 → 31/03/2022
Research
Improved Radioactive source location and characterisation via empiricial transform anaylsis
01/09/2020 → 30/09/2021
Research
AMS-UK: A UK Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility for Nuclear Fission Research
01/11/2019 → 31/03/2024
Research
UTGARD LAB PHASE II: A SIMFUEL FABRICATION & CHARACTERISATION FACILITY
01/11/2019 → 30/06/2023
Research
In-situ groundwater monitoring to improve identification of ground/soil contamination volumes and associated contaminated in-ground infrastructure that may remain at the Site End State (Soraia Elisio)
03/10/2019 → 29/02/2024
Research
iCASE: Electrokinetic In situ Decontamination of Entrained Radioactivity (EIDER)
01/10/2019 → 30/09/2023
Research
iCASE: Electrokinetic In situ Decontamination of Entrained Radioactivity (EIDER)
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2024
Research
Reliability Limits of Programmable Protection Systems
23/04/2019 → 30/03/2020
Research
BEIS: Knowledge Transfer Plan for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards
25/02/2019 → 04/03/2020
Research
Neutron production and shielding characterisation at DCF using neutron spectroscopy and imaging device under development at Lancaster
01/10/2018 → 30/09/2019
Research
JUNO: A Network for Japan - UK Nuclear Opportunities
17/11/2017 → 16/11/2022
Research
IS 2015 - Advanced Materials
01/06/2015 → …
Research
Institutional Sponsorship 2015
01/06/2015 → 31/03/2016
Research
Industrial Doctorate Centre: Nuclear Engineering
01/10/2009 → 31/03/2018
Other
Agenda: UK - Japan Meeting and Workshop 2023/24
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- AIRS-NFM
- Doctorate Centre in Nuclear Engineering
- Energy Lancaster
- Energy Lancaster Nuclear
- Nuclear
- Space Weather