Professor of Particle Physics
Fellow of Queens' College
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0HE
Biography:
After a Ph.D. in the Cavendish HEP group working on bubble chamber experiments, followed by several other bubble chamber experiments, I then worked on the UA5 experiment at the CERN SPS collider. For around 20 years I worked on the OPAL experiment at LEP, working on QCD and W-boson physics, and serving variously as software and physics coordinator.
Subsequently I became concerned with plans for experiments at a future e+e- Linear Collider. In particular the CALICE collaboration is carrying out a broad R&D programme aimed at prototyping designs for highly granular calorimeters which are optimised for jet energy reconstruction. I served as the overall analysis coordinator for CALICE for seven years.
Research groups
Research Interests
My main area of current research is on the LHCb experiment at LHC. Specifically, the study of electroweak production processes, like the creation of Z and W bosons, allows the structure of the proton to be probed in unprecedented ways. This work builds on my long-term interest in precision measurements, QCD and calorimetry.