Brief CV and Research Roles
Appointments
1974-76 SRC/NATO
Fellow - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California
1976-77 Research
Staff Member - Nuclear Science Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
1978 Senior
Demonstrator - Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
1978-83 SRC
Advanced Fellow - Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
1983-99 Lecturer,
Senior Lecturer, Reader - Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
1999-present Professor of
Physics (Personal Chair) - University of Liverpool
1999-2000 Marie Curie
Fellow (on sabbatical from University of Liverpool) - University of Jyväskylä
2000-2013 Head of
Nuclear Physics Group – University of Liverpool
2002-2005 Head of ISOLDE
Group (on secondment from University of Liverpool) - CERN
2015-present Senior Research
Fellow (part-time following retirement) – University of Liverpool
Awards
and Fellowships
1974 Awarded SRC/NATO Fellowship
1978 Awarded SRC Advanced Fellowship
1992 Elected
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
1999 Awarded Marie Curie Fellowship
2012 Conferred
Rutherford Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics
2019 Elected
Fellow of the Royal Society
2019 Conferred
Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the University of Jyväskylä
Collaborations
and Projects
UK
Member of Project
Committee of the Oxford University Superconducting Linac
(1982-84)
Member of Gamma-ray Working Party (Daresbury) (1984-92)
Member of Recoil Separator Working Party (Daresbury) (1984-87)
Member of Charged Particle Working Party (Daresbury) (1986-89)
Member of Linac Project Working Party (Daresbury)
(1988-90)
Chair of SUSAN
Spectrometer Working Party (Daresbury) (1988-90)
Chair of Gamma-ray Working Party (Daresbury) (1991-92)
Chair of Gamma-ray Users Group (UK) (1992-94), member (1994- 2002)
Spokesman and Project Scientist of GREAT project (EPSRC; Daresbury-Liverpool-Manchester-
Stafford-Surrey-York; Jyväskylä) (1999-2004)
Member of CASIM (cyclotron) Coordinating Group (Daresbury) (2001-2002)
Member of CASIM Steering Committee (Daresbury) (2001-2003)
Deputy Spokesperson of ISOL-SRS project (STFC; Daresbury-Edinburgh-Liverpool-Manchester-Surrey-York;
CERN) (2012-21)
Jyväskylä
Spokesperson of SACRED collaboration (Liverpool and Jyväskylä) (1994-2002)
Spokesperson of JUROSPHERE collaboration (Jyväskylä)
(1996-1997)
France and Germany
Member of Proposal Committee for PIAFE facility (ILL Grenoble)(1997)
Co-Spokesman of Munich
Accelerator for Fission Fragments project (LMU and TU Munich) (1998-2005)
Head of FRS tracking detector working group and the ancillary-detector
working group (RISING – GSI, Germany) (2001-5)
Member of board of directors of the Munich Accelerator for Fission
Fragments project (LMU and TU Munich) (2005-6)
EU and other European
Member of Heavy and Exotic Nuclei Programme Committee
(Finland-France-Germany-UK) (1999-2004)
Member of EXOTAG EU Vth framework Research & Technology
Development project (CERN-Finland-France-Germany-Poland-UK) (1999-2004)
Coordinator of “New Skills for Detector
Development at Liverpool Physics” – EU Vth framework Marie Curie Development
Host (University of Liverpool) (2001-2005)
Member of Steering Committee for Vth framework EURISOL conceptual
RTD study (2002-05)
Member of Writing Committee for VIth
framework EURISOL Design Study proposal (2003-05)
Member of MINIBALL Steering Committee (2003-05)
Coordinator of INTAG Joint Research Activity (Belgium-CERN-Finland-France-Germany-Israel-Italy-Poland-UK)
in EURONS EU VIth framework Integrated Infrastructure
Initiative (2004-2008)
Coordinator of ISOLDE Trans-National Activity in EURONS EU VIth framework Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (CERN)
(2004-2005)
Member of Project Coordination Committee and Executive Board of VIth framework Integrated Initiative for Infrastructures
EURONS (2005-08)
Member of Management Board of VIth framework
EURISOL Design Study (2005-9)
Member of Coordination Board of VIth framework
EURISOL Design Study (2005-9)
Member (ex-officio) of Steering Committee of VIth
framework EURISOL Design Study (2005-09)
Member of Writing Committee for VIIth
framework Integrating Activity ENSAR (2007-09)
Member of EURISOL Project Office (2009-11)
CERN
Member of Convening Committee of Proposal for ISOLDE booster
(CERN) (1992-3)
Member of Proposal Committee for REX-ISOLDE facility (CERN) (1994)
Chair of Standing Group for the Upgrade of ISOLDE Facility (CERN) (2002-05),
member (2005-12)
Spokesperson of ISOLDE Collaboration (CERN) (2004-05)
Chair of the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee (CERN) (2005-8),
member (2002-05, ex-officio 2008-12)
Member of
HIE-ISOLDE Steering Committee (CERN) (2010-13)
Physics Coordinator of TSR Collaboration (CERN) (2011-16)
Experiments (spokesperson,
since 2002)
ISOLDE (CERN)
IS405 Obtaining empirical validation of shape-coexistence in the
mass 70 region: Coulomb excitation of a radioactive beam of 70Se
IS452 Measurements of shape co-existence in 182,184Hg
using Coulomb excitation
IS475 Measurements of octupole collectivity in Rn and Ra using
Coulomb excitation
IS552 Measurements of octupole collectivity in Rn and Ra nuclei
using Coulomb excitation
JYFL (Jyväskylä, Finland)
S05 Shape co-existence in 182-188Hg
S21 Investigation of octupole collectivity in 224U
IPN ALTO (Orsay, France)
N-SI-69 Measurement of octupole collectivity in Nd, Sm and Gd nuclei using Coulomb excitation
Conference Organisation
Member of Organising Committee of the
National Postgraduate School, 1981-83
Director of National Postgraduate School
in Nuclear Physics, September 1989
Co-Chair of Conference on Nuclear and
Particle physics, University of Liverpool, 9-11 April 1991
Member of Organising Committee of NSF
Daresbury Requiem Conference, March 1993
Member of Organising Committee of N + N
Workshop, Konnevesi, Finland, January 1995
Co-Chair of Organising Committee of
Workshop on “Future Directions in Nuclear Structure”, The Cosener’s
House, Abingdon, September 1998
Chair of Workshop “Study of Nuclei Far From
Stability Using Tagging Techniques”, Liverpool, 21-22 February 1999
Director of NATO Advanced Research
Workshop “Techniques and Selected Applications of Nuclear Physics”, Krzyze, Poland, 2-4 September 1999
Co-Chair of Workshop on “Very Heavy
Nuclear Systems”, ECT* Trento, 9-14 July 2001
Co-Chair of Organising Committee of
Workshop on “Future Directions in Nuclear Structure”, The Cosener’s
House, Abingdon, April 2002
Chair of ISOLDE Workshop, CERN, 16-18
December 2002
Chair of ISOLDE Workshop, CERN, 15-17 December
2003
Co-Chair of Workshop “Physics with a
Multi-MW Proton Source”, CERN, 25-27 May 2004
Chair of ISOLDE Workshop, CERN, 13-15
December 2004
Member of Organising Committee of Workshop
“Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at CERN” (NuPAC),
CERN, 10-12 October 2005
Co-organiser of EURORIB’10 Conference, Lamoura, 6-11 June 2010
Co-Chair of Workshop on “Violations of
discrete Symmetries in Atoms and Nuclei, ECT* Trento, 15-19 November 2010
Member
of Organising Committee of TSR@ISOLDE Workshop, CERN,
29-20 October 2012
Member
of Organising Committee of TSR@ISOLDE Workshop, CERN,
14 February 2014
Member
of Organising Committee of TSR@ISOLDE Workshop, CERN,
27-28 April 2015
Chair of Organising Committee
“Reflections on the Atomic Nucleus”, Liverpool, 28-30 July 2015
PhD students
J
Simpson (1983)
J
D Burrows (1985)
A
M Y El-Lawindy (1986)
R
J Tanner (1988)
R
J Poynter (1989)
C
A White (1990)
T
H Hoare (1991)
N
Clarkson (1992)
A
J Cresswell (1994)
P
M Jones (1995)
J
F Smith (1995)
J
F C Cocks (1996)
K
J Cann (1998)
P
T Greenlees (1999)
D
Hawcroft (2000)
NJ
Hammond (2002)
C
Scholey (2002)
N
Amzal (2002)
RD
Humphreys (2003)
AM
Hurst (2006)
A
Petts (2010)
LP
Gaffney (2012)
GG
O’Neill (2016)