People

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

People

Director

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

Administrative Personnel

Sonja Scott-Jones (Events and Administration Manager)

Neil Batley (CI Management Accountant)

Emily Grundill (CI/ASTeC Administration Support)

Lauren Hamblett (Personal Assistant to Technical Division Head/Administration Support)

Emily Baker (Personal Assistant to ASTeC Director)

STFC ASTeC Staff

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)

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

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

Alan Wheelhouse (RF & Cryogenics Group Leader)
Ayo Akintola
Andy Blackett-May
Jacob Cunnison
Aaron Farricker
Anthony Gilfellon
Conor Jenkins
Matthew Jones
Nirav Joshi
Andy Moss
Shrikant Pattalwar
Jake Sawyer
Anna Shabalina
Taaj Sian
Ivan Skachko
Paul Smith

Andrew Vick (Vacuum Solutions Group Leader)
Milly Allen
Chris Benjamin
Katherine Clarke
James Conlon
Joe Herbert
Ben Hool
Paul Johnson
Rebekah Luff
Oleg Malyshev
Eleni Marshall
Keith Middleman
John Murphy
Oliver Poynton
Jordan Rigby
Daniel Seal
Liam Smith
Reza Valizadeh
Stuart Wilde

Ed Snedden (Femtosecond Lasers & Timing Group Leader)
Alexander Aiken
Omair Ghafur
James Henderson
Katherine Morrow
Lewis Reid
Mark Roper
Patrick Sterling
Callum Tollervey
David Walsh

Yuri Saveliev (Accelerator Diagnostics & Instrumentation Group Leader)
James Gawthorpe
Valentina Malconi
Storm Mathisen
Patrick McGuinness
Geoffrey Morris
Toby Overton
Tom Pacey
Antony Palmer
Emily Shackleton
Edward Shand
Rob Smith
Rosa Ward
Andrew Wooten

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

Lisa Howard (Programmes Group Leader)
Emily Baker
Zakia Bilques
Julie Bradley
Stephen Buckley
Lynn Caddick
Mike Ellis
Emily Grundill
Lauren Hamblett
Sonja Scott-Jones

Anthony Gleeson (Business Development)

Integrated staff
Henry Holt
Ian Scarratt

more information about ASTeC 

Lancaster University

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

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

University of Liverpool

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)
Dmitry Gudkov
(Physics)
Alexander Hill (Physics)
Narender Kumar (Physics)
Bifeng Lei
(Physics)
Milaan Patel
 (Physics)
Bharat Singh Rawat
(Physics)
Benjamin Rienacker
(Physics)
Alexander Webber-Date (Physics)
Joseph Wolfenden (Physics)
Hao D. Zhang (Physics)

PhD Students/Junior Fellows
Cristian Bontoiu (Physics)
Will Butcher (Physics)
Lauryn Eley (Physics)
Luana Parsons Franca (Physics)
Rupeshkumar Ghagi (Physics)
Ana Maria Guisao-Betancu (Physics)
Alex Herrod (Physics)
Angus Jones (Physics)
Harry Jones 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)
Ondrej Sedlacek (Physics)
Oliver Stringer (Physics)
Catherine Swain (Physics)
Natalia Triantiafyllou (Physics)
Sara Morales Vigo (Physics)
Qiyuan Xu (Physics)

Project Team
Constantinos Astreos
Minh Cao
Naomi Smith

Ricardo Torres
Alexandra Welsch

more information about the QUASAR Group

more information about University of Liverpool Accelerator Physics Group

University of Manchester

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

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

PhDs
Aras Amini
Oliver Betteridge
Joseph Bradbury
Sam Burford-Eyres
Patrick Dalton
Fabio D’Andrea
Marin Deniaud
Andrea Fornara
Anthony Gilfellon
Beatriz Higuera Gonzalez
Rebecca Habgood
Liam McCarthy
Jack McGunigal
Hannah Norman
Filip Peczek
Christopher Shaw
Jing Shu
Jaspal Singh
Adam Steinberg
Hannah Wanstall
Jiaqi Zhang

more information about University of Manchester Accelerator Physics Group

University of Strathclyde

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