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I'M
Will 
Deacon
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PHYSICIST + INSTRUMENT INNOVATOR

01 Skill Set

MICROSCOPY

75%

AUTOMATION

70%

OPTICS

95%

MICROFLUIDICS

85%

DATA ANALYTICS

80%

ELECTRONICS

85%

PROFESSIONAL 

Automation | Optics | Microfluidics | Electronics. 

I find solutions to complex physical challenges through instrumentation. 

 

My expertise in automation, optics, microfluidics, and electronics enables me to take a holistic view of an instrument's operation, allowing me to drive technical teams to find the most elegant solutions.

 

02 PUBLICATIONS

MY LATEST WORK AND PUBLICATIONS SEE MORE >

Over the last decade, I've had the opportunity to work on some exciting and truly ground-breaking projects: from making non-magnetic materials magnetic at the University of Leeds, Stoner Labs, to counting single photons with picosecond resolution in Prof. Jeremy Baumberg's Nanophononics Centre at the University of Cambridge, and most recently hugely parallelised single-cell manipulation at Lightcast Discovery where are creating an instrument with the potential to revolutionise cell biology.  

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03 Experience

2023 - to date

System Technical Lead

Lightcast Discovery

Provide technical support to heads and directors/ executives to manage technical risks. Offer direct support to technical teams across software and integration, microfluidic products, manufacturing, and biology.

2020-2023

Software + Hardware Interfaces Leader

Lightcast Discovery
In this role, I was responsible for facilitating technical activities between software and hardware teams. Allowing us to rapidly automate and control a complex instrument.. 

2019-2020

Scientist [Physicist]

Lightcast Discovery

Developed a range of optical, electronic, and algorithmic technologies for the manipulation of single cells.

Mar- Nov 2019

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Cambridge

Developed a signal processing technique utilising FPGAs to perform picosecond timestamping. This technique allowed for the detection of single photon per second signals that are otherwise undetectable with standard technologies. 

2014-2019

PhD Candidate

University of Cambridge

Designed, developed, and built an ultrafast optical system for interogating vibrations in nanostructures and few-molecules systems over the picosecond timescale. 

2013- 2014

MPhys Researcher

University of Leeds

Utilised hybridisation to create magnetic materials from non-magnetic Buckminster fullerenes and transition metals. 

2012-2014

Research Associate

University of Leeds

Worked on a drug-delivery system for cancer, where microbubbles laden with hydrophobic anti-cancer drugs could selectively target tumors using ultrasound.

PUBLICATIONS
EXPERIENCEO
CONTACT
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CONTACT
Dr Will Deacon | Biotech Instrumentation + Innovation

If you have an interesting project, or would like to talk through a potential idea, feel free to connect with me. 

If you're an aspiring physicist or a keen mind intent on a career in complex devices please reach out for mentoring.

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