Profile

I have been working closely with CERN ever since my CERN Fellowship which I had between 2005 and 2007, although it did involve some international mobility.

I founded my QUASAR Group in the frame of a Helmholtz YIG Award in 2007 and have been leading this Group ever since – currently there are more than 30 members and 18 different nationalities – it really feels every day like the world is working together on common problems; very similar to the experience I made at CERN.

Since November 2008, I am a faculty member at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology. In October 2011 I was promoted to Professor of Physics and I also lead the Liverpool Accelerator Science Group. I have been leading the entire Physics Department at Liverpool since 2016.

I am specialized in accelerator design and optimization, the development of underpinning technologies – in particular novel beam diagnostics – as well as fundamental science and industry applications of accelerators, from high energy discovery machines, to antimatter facilities, medical accelerators and ultra-compact accelerators-on-a-chip. CERN is my group’s most important research partner and we are collaborating on almost every accelerator at CERN – from the keV antiproton beams at the AD, all the way to the TeV proton beams in the flagship LHC.

I have been a partner in numerous national and international research projects and have been coordinator of 10 EU projects to date, amongst which the large scale networks DITANET,LA³NET, oPAC, OMA, AVA and EuPRAXIA-DN. I am a member of numerous international advisory committees and a frequent speaker at international workshops and conferences.