Emma Springate

MA in Physics, University of Oxford (1994). PhD in Physics, Imperial College (1999). Marie Curie Research Fellow at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam (1999 to 2001). Postdoctoral position at Imperial College (2003 to 2004). Joined the Central Laser Facility as a Laser Scientist (2004 to 2006), then promoted to Target Area Scientist (2006 to2007), Artemis Section Leader (2007 to 2010) and Artemis Group Leader (2010 to present).

Emma has led the Artemis group since it opened to users. She managed the original project to build the facility, and the recent £3 million upgrade of the facility in new lab-space in the Research Complex at Harwell. She is one of the principal investigators on the £17 million HiLUX project to upgrade Ultra and Artemis, which started in 2023.

Emma is an academic visitor at Imperial College and a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College. She has served on scientific advisory committees for the Extreme Light Infrastructure-Delivery Consortium, the Advanced Laser Light Source in Canada, DESY and European XFEL. She has been a Programme Comm​ittee member for Ultrafast Optics, High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena, International Conference on Extreme Light, Advanced Solid-State Lasers and CLEO, where she was a program co-chair in 2025. She has co-authored over 90 publications. ​