Mark Sarsfield is an Industrial Chemist with a PhD in inorganic chemistry, has chartered accreditation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Appointed as an NNL Laboratory Fellow within the Radiochemistry team, Mark is the technical lead on projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Ltd, and the EU Framework Program VII/H2020.
With a strong background in actinide chemistry, Mark provides technical support to the NDA plutonium disposition programme and THORP and MAGNOX reprocessing plants at Sellafield and is an independent technical expert on the Magnox Reprocessing Technical Committee. Mark leads a UK Safeguards programme, delivering training courses for the IAEA and provides similar training to MoD and NNL staff on the nuclear fuel cycle.
He has developed an international network through participation in EU framework projects (PATRICIA, ASGARD, ACSEPT) and collaborations with US National Laboratories. Mark is a visiting research fellow at the University of Manchester and has published one book chapter and over 55 journal articles with a h-index of 24.
