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The Cockcroft Institute brings together the best accelerator scientists, engineers, educators and industrialists.

People

Director of the Cockcroft Institute
Professor Stewart Boogert
Professor of Accelerator Physics,
University of Manchester

 

Founding Director and Chief Scientist
John Dainton
FInstP, FRSA, FRS,
Formerly Sir James Chadwick Chair of Physics,
University of Liverpool

Lauren Ellams
(Events and Administration Manager)
lauren.ellams@stfc.ac.uk

Neil Batley
(CI Management Accountant)
neil.batley@ukri.org

Emily Grundill
(CI/ASTeC Administration Support)
emily.grundill@stfc.ac.uk

Emily Baker
(Personal Assistant to ASTeC Director)
emily.baker@stfc.ac.uk

Jim Clarke (Department Head and ASTeC Director)

Peter McIntosh (Technical Division Head and Deputy ASTeC Director)

Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Science Division Head)

Andy Goulden (Business, Programmes and Facilities Division Head)

Ben Shepherd (Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group Leader)
Alex Bainbridge
David Dunning
Alex Hinton
Matthew King
Alan Mak
Kiril Marinov
Amelia Pollard
Neil Thompson
Nasiq Ziyan

Hywel Owen (Accelerator Physics Group Leader)
Alex Brynes
Hugh Churn
Louise Cowie
Ben Hounsell
Frank Jackson
Mark Johnson
James Jones
Lee Jones
Julian McKenzie
Boris Militsyn
Bruno Muratori
Tim Noakes
Suzanna Percival
Peter Williams

Ed Snedden (Femtosecond Lasers & Timing Group Leader)
Anam Ahmed
Katherine Morrow
Jinglei Ouyang
Lewis Reid
Mark Roper
Calum Tollervey
David Walsh

Alan Wheelhouse (RF & Cryogenics Group Leader)
Ayo Akintola
Afshan Afrash
Anisullah Baig
Zakia Bilques
Andy Blackett-May
Aaron Farricker
Anthony Gilfellon
Conor Jenkins
Matthew Jones
Nirav Joshi
Andy Moss
Shrikant Pattalwar
Jake Sawyer
Anna Shabalina
Taaj Sian
Ivan Skachko
Paul Smith
Fatih Yaman

Andrew Vick (Vacuum Solutions Group Leader)
Chris Benjamin
Katherine Clarke
James Conlon
Eliza Fox
Joe Herbert
Ben Hool
Paul Johnson
Rebekah Luff
Oleg Malyshev
Eleni Marshall
Keith Middleman
John Murphy
Daniel Seal
Liam Smith
Reza Valizadeh
Sam Weedon
Stuart Wilde

Storm Mathisen (Accelerator Diagnostics & Instrumentation Group Leader)
James Gawthorpe
Thomas Hall
Bobby Lee
Valentina Malconi
Patrick McGuinness
Cameron Moffat
Toby Overton
Tom Pacey
Antony Palmer
Yuri Saveliev
Emily Shackleton
Edward Shand
Max Shipley
Rob Smith
Andrew Wooten

Rachael Buckley (Facility Operations Group Leader)
Gary Collier
Elis Carsley
Alison Cooper
Joe Diakun
Alisa Healy
Phil Hornickel
Gary Hughes
Nadia Jones
Lukas McCormack
Alex Odell
Chris Plant
Ian Scarratt
Roland Schnuerer
Andrew Shovelton
Faye Taylor
Nathan Tindsley
Bradley Wilson

Lisa Howard (Programmes Group Leader)
Milly Allen
Emily Baker
Julie Bradley
Stephen Buckley
Alex Caddick
Ed Cavanagh
Jacob Cunnison
Lauren Ellams
Mike Ellis
Emily Grundill
Chloe Pugh

Anthony Gleeson (Business Development)
Rachel James (Business Development)

more information about ASTeC 

ASTeC Organogram

Academics
Christoper Arran (Physics)
Robert Apsimon (Engineering)
Ian Bailey (Physics)
Graeme Burt (Engineering)
Amos Dexter (Engineering)
Jonathan Gratus (Physics)
Steven Jamison (Physics)
Rosa Letizia (Engineering)
Harry Marks (Engineering)
Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy (Physics)
Claudio Paoloni (Engineering)
Peter Ratoff (Physics)
Robin Tucker (Physics)

 

PDRAs
Amelia Edwards (Engineering)
Anis Baig (Engineering)
Laurence Nix (Engineering)
Manoj Phatangare (Engineering)
Ricardo Lopez (Engineering)

Sergey Siaber (Physics)
Titus-Stefan Dascalu (Physics)

PhD Students/Junior Fellows
Conor McFarlane (Engineering)
Dan Seal (Engineering)
Nathan Leicester (Engineering)
Sara Toole (Engineering)
Lewis Gurran (Engineering)
Victoria Hill (Engineering)
Daniel Turner (Engineering)
Sam Smith (Engineering)
Matthew Southerby (Engineering)
Nattaphong Nuchsirikulaphong (Engineering)
Racheng Bi (Engineering)
Joshua Gregory (Engineering)
Ben Keeble (Engineering)
Will Pash (Engineering)

Taylor Boyd (Physics)
Cinzia Chiapetta (Physics)
Ryan McGuigan (Physics)

more information about Lancaster University Engineering Group

more information about Lancaster University Accelerator Physics Group

Academics
Carsten Welsch (Physics), Head of the Accelerator Physics Group
James Bradley (Engineering)
Laura Corner (Engineering)
Geoff Dearden (Engineering)
Andy Wolski (Physics)

PDRAs/Senior Fellows
Daliya Aflyatunova (Physics)
Debdeep Ghosal (Physics)
Alexander Hill (Physics)
Narender Kumar (Physics)
Bifeng Lei
(Physics)
Milaan Patel
 (Physics)
Bharat Singh Rawat
(Physics)
Benjamin Rienacker (Physics)
Joseph Wolfenden (Physics)
Hao D. Zhang (Physics)

PhD Students/Junior Fellows
Will Butcher (Physics)
Lauryn Eley (Physics)
Rupeshkumar Ghagi (Physics)
Ana Maria Guisao-Betancu (Physics)
Ravi Gupta (Physics)
Angus Jones (Physics)
Harry Jones (Physics)
Sam Jones (Physics)
Alexander Jury (Physics)
Montague King (Physics)
Farhana Thesni Mada Parambil (Physics)
Connor Monaghan (Physics)
D Morris (Physics)
Andrew Potter (Physics)
Miles Radford (Engineering)
Lewis Reid (Physics)
Oliver Stringer (Physics)
Catherine Swain (Physics)
Qiyuan Xu (Physics)

Project Team
Hannah Acton 
Naomi Smith

Alexandra Welsch

more information about the QUASAR Group

more information about University of Liverpool Accelerator Physics Group

Academics

Darren Graham (Physics & Astronomy),
Head of the Accelerator Physics Group
Robert Appleby (Physics & Astronomy)
Oznur Apsimon (Physics & Astronomy)
Will Bertsche (Physics & Astronomy)
Stewart Boogert (Physics & Astronomy)
Morgan Hibberd (Physics & Astronomy)
Roger Jones (Physics & Astronomy)
Guoxing Xia (Physics & Astronomy)

PDRAs
Hossein Saberi
David Christie
Can Davut
Carlo Emilio Montanari
Rohit Kumar
Kristina Small

PhDs
Aras Amini
Oliver Betteridge
Joseph Bradbury
Patrick Dalton
Fabio D’Andrea
Marin Deniaud
Andrea Fornara
Anthony Gilfellon
Beatriz Higuera Gonzalez
Rebecca Habgood
Jack McGunigal
Filip Peczek
Jaspal Singh
Jiaqi Zhang
Emily Barrett
Jordan Byrne
Samuel Norman
Euan Smith
George Smith

more information about University of Manchester Accelerator Physics Group

Academics
Paul McKenna (Physics)
Brian McNeil (Physics)
Kevin Ronald (Physics)

PDRAs
E Brunetti
C Donaldson
B Ersfeld
R Gray
W He
M King
P MacInnes
G G Manahan
C Robertson
P Traczykowski
C Whyte
M Wiggins
H Yin
A Young
L Zhang

PhD Students/Junior Fellows
Georgia Adam
A Beaton
L Boulton
David Campbell (Physics)
K Carnell
Alexander Dick
A F Habib
T Heinemann
A Higginson
K Kokurewicz
Andrzej Kornaszewski
Jenny Morgan
Laurence Nix
H Padda
Pornthep Pongchalee (Physics)
Lorne Rutherford (Physics)
A Sutherland
T Wilson

more information about University of Strathclyde Plasmas Group