Contact & CV
Current Affiliation
Data Scientist Kraken Technologies Japan
Contact Details
Email: alex (at) alexmalins.com
Address:
Octopus Energy
KDX Hakozaki Building 8th Floor
Hakozaki-machi 41-12
Nihonbashi
Chuo-ku
Tokyo
103-0015
Japan
Professional Experience
Aug 2022 - Present
Data Scientist at Kraken Technologies Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Staff Scientist at Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Kashiwa, Japan
Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
Postdoc Researcher at Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Kashiwa, Japan
Jul 2012 - Mar 2014
Technical Specialist at Cavendish Nuclear
Bristol, UK
Aug 2010 - Mar 2011
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (Short Term) at the University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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Publications
Education
Jan 2009 - Jul 2013
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
PhD Soft Matter Physics - Thesis
Oct 2007 - Dec 2008
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
MRes Complexity Sciences - Thesis
Oct 2004 - Jul 2007
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
BSc Mathematics & Physics - Dissertation
Languages
English (Native speaker)
Japanese (Full professional profiency, JLPT N1)
Talks
18th Mar 2021
Development of the radioactivedecay Python package for radioactive decay calculations
2021 Annual Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Online Meeting
11th Sep 2019
Investigation on distribution of radioactive substances in Fukushima (9) Analysis of temporal changes in ambient dose equivalent rates in forests over 6 years
2019 Fall Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
5th Aug 2019
Using PHITS to calculate ambient dose equivalent rates in radiocesium
contaminated forests
PHITS Workshop 2019, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
21st Mar 2019
PHITS Models for Ambient Dose Equivalent Rates in Fukushima’s Radiocesium Contaminated Forests
2019 Annual Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan
7th Sep 2018
Advancement of airborne radiation measurement technology: (2) Simulations of unmanned helicopter and LaBr3(Ce) detector used for estimating radiocesium distribution in soil
2018 Fall Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
22nd Aug 2018
Simulating gamma spectrometers with PHITS: examples of LaBr3(Ce) airborne detector and shielded HPGe detector inside a vehicle
14th PHITS Workshop, Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center, Tokaimura, Japan
29th Mar 2017
Adjoint Photon Transport in PHITS
2017 Annual Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Japan
3rd Oct 2016
Continuous Energy Adjoint Transport for Photons in PHITS
ICRS-13 & RPSD-2016, Paris, France
19th Jul 2016
Open Sites with Radiocesium Contaminated Soil: Evaluating Dose Rates and Remediation Strategies
61st Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Spokane, WA, USA
1st Jul 2016
The Effect of 2015 Typhoon Etau on Radiation Dose Rates in River Basins Surrounding Fukushima Daiichi
Goldschmidt 2016, Yokohama, Japan
3rd May 2016
Calculating Dose Rates in Various Settings after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), East Kilbride, UK
14th Dec 2015
Modelling evolution of air dose rates in river basins in Fukushima Prefecture affected by sediment-sorbed radiocesium redistribution
2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
17th Sep 2015
Sediment Redistribution and Air Dose Rate Changes in River Basins in Eastern Fukushima Prefecture
2015 Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan, Yokohama National University, Japan
10th Sep 2015
F-TRACE Project (15): Tool for calculating air dose rates from arbitrary radiocesium depth profiles and spatial distributions for Fukushima Prefecture
2015 Fall Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Shizuoka University, Japan
22nd Apr 2015
Topographic Effects on Ambient Dose Equivalent Rates from Radiocesium Fallout
M&C + SNA + MC 2015, Nashville, TN, USA
16th Mar 2015
Structure and glassy dynamics in Lennard-Jones liquids
Physics of Structural and Dynamical Hierarchy in Soft Matter, University of Tokyo, Japan
18th Sep 2014
Quantifying the effect of land topography on air radiation dose rates using Monte Carlo radiation transport modelling
2014 Meeting of the Japanese Geochemical Society, University of Toyama, Japan
14th Oct 2011
Experience as a JSPS Fellow
Invited speaker at JSPS Programme Induction Day, University of Bristol, UK
13th Sep 2011
Supercooled liquids, structure, and the glass transition
at CCP5 Annual Meeting, University of Bath, UK
28th Jun 2011
Towards a structural mechanism for the glass transition
at Bristol Colloid Group Industrial Research Day, University of Bristol, UK
Posters
6-7 Jul 2016
Simulations of Dose Rate Changes upon Decontamination
at 5th Meeting of the Decontamination Society, Fukushima City, Japan
9-10 Nov 2015
Calculations of Dose Rate Reductions upon Soil Remediation
at Public Meeting on JAEA Research for Environmental Recovery of Fukushima, Fukushima City, Japan
30th May 2015
Fields of View for Environmental Radioactivity
at International Symposium on Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future, Paruse Iizaka, Fukushima, Japan
15th Dec 2011
Growing networks of icosahedra in a model glass former
at Unifying concepts in glass physics V, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France
7th Sep 2011
Using the Topological Cluster Classification to identify slow clusters within Wahnström supercooled liquids
at the 8th Liquid Matter Conference, University of Vienna, Austria
18th Aug 2010
Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Small Colloidal Clusters
at the International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter 2010, Nara, Japan
20th Jul 2010
Simulations of Small Colloidal Clusters
at CECAM: Mesoscale Methods for Colloidal Hydrodynamics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
9th Mar 2009
Locally favoured structures in Lennard-Jones liquids
at Discussion Meeting on Colloids, grains and dense suspensions: under flow and under arrest, The Royal Society, London, UK