Georgia Acton

Georgia Acton is a Lecturer in Physics at Merton College, Oxford, affiliated with the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics (RPC). Her research focuses on Stellarator optimisation and plasma turbulence in 3D magnetic fields, collaborating with Michael Barnes and Sarah Newton. She has presented at major conferences, including an invited talk at the 20th European Fusion Theory Conference (EFTC 2023).

Teaching roles include tutoring third-year undergraduate Fluid Dynamics for three years, mentoring master's students in Kinetic Theory, and teaching Vector Calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Statistical Mechanics at the undergraduate level. She designed the Dimensional Analysis course for the UNIQ Summer School and delivered public outreach lectures such as 'Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion.'

Her involvement in outreach includes organising Physics Olympiad events, school visits, and developing teaching aids for secondary schools. She contributes to the Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics research group at RPC.