About
I'm Marcus Turner-Wood, a Physics with Nuclear Science graduate from the University of Liverpool. I'm currently interning at VEC, working on digital innovation for SMEs in Liverpool and am involved with AI agents, digital twins, computer vision, and related tools. I'm about to start a PhD in the nuclear physics group at Liverpool, studying how single-particle excitations drive shape coexistence via Pb-d transfer reactions. I'm also the founder and former president of the University of Liverpool Nuclear Society, and helped affiliate the university with the Nuclear Institute to strengthen academic–industry collaboration.
This site is a periodically-updated publication of short articles and write-ups on topics I find interesting or important, spanning physics research, mathematics, and philosophy, alongside a record of projects I've worked on.
The articles section covers whatever I've been reading or thinking about at the time; the projects section documents specific pieces of research and lab work, with full reports available where relevant.
Beyond physics
The internship at VEC turned an existing interest in innovative technology into something more by giving me understanding into what a business's problem is and then proposing a tool for it and, finally, presenting the result in terms that make sense to people who aren't going to read the code. I'm equally interested in the funding side of innovation and research, namely, how research councils and universities allocate money, how spin-outs get funded and grow, and the data science and AI tools increasingly used to study all of that. The UK Spin-out Tracker and Agentic Factory projects, both from that same internship, came out of these interests.
Further from work, I enjoy learning about philosophy and anthropology, follow the psychiatric research literature on psychedelics, and have long-running interests in mycology and Surrealist art. On the physics side specifically, I follow fusion research closely with a particular focus on stellarators.
Outside of all that I enjoy hiking and going wild camping and the Coast to Coast Path and a via ferrata route are both on the list for the near future. A student boxing match last year, which I lost, and a trip around Italy after a four-week medical physics internship in Rome, looking at turning plastic scintillators into threads, are both among the things I'm most proud of, alongside getting onto a PhD studentship straight from undergrad. Carlo Rovelli, Merlin Sheldrake, Salvador Dalí, Richard Feynman, and Bertrand Russell are the figures I keep coming back to.
CV
Contact
If you'd like to get in touch, the best way is via LinkedIn.