Leadership, governance & service

Selected leadership, governance and advisory roles spanning international research collaborations, national funding and fellowship panels, university strategy and interdisciplinary research programmes, together with research funding and conference organisation activities.

Leadership & management roles

Within international scientific collaborations

2025– Member, DarkSide experiment International Advisory Board, LNGS — one of six board members advising on policy and strategic matters for the >€100M DarkSide project (70 institutions, 14 countries).
2022–24 Coordinator, ATLAS Education & Outreach group, CERN — elected by 181 institutes; reports to the ATLAS spokesperson; managed a core team of ~20.
2021–23 Editorial Board member, DarkSide international project, LNGS — executive oversight and planning of the physics programme, strategy and outputs.
2020– Member, DarkSide Collaboration Institutional Board, LNGS.
2017–20 UK representative, International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) Collaboration Board.
2017–18 Chair, ATLAS B-Physics trigger data-stream taskforce, CERN.
2016–19 LHC liaison, Quarkonium Working Group Collaboration (~250 researchers).
2014–16 Leader, ATLAS B-Physics & Light States research group, CERN — one of seven ATLAS physics groups; set research strategy and oversaw operational delivery for the research group and managed eight subgroup leaders.
2010– Editorial Board member and chair for ATLAS and DØ physics analyses.
2010–14 Leader, Quarkonium & b-Production research subgroup at ATLAS (~30 researchers).
2010–14 Leader, Monte Carlo generator algorithms group at DØ, Fermilab (~25 researchers).
2010–12 Signature coordinator, B-trigger algorithms group at ATLAS (~20 researchers).

Within national scientific projects

2026– DarkSide-UK Physics Coordinator — coordinating UK activities for science exploitation of DarkSide-20k during installation, commissioning and initial data-taking.
2021– Work strand lead, signal-processing electronics, DarkSide-UK — one of three top-level work strands, spanning five UK institutes.
2020– Chair, Institutional Board, DarkSide-UK — cost/schedule reviews and leadership appointments across 15 institutes.
2019–21 Convener, ATLAS-UK B-Physics group (20 institutes).
2013–15 Convener, ATLAS-UK Standard Model physics group (20 institutes).

Within funding agencies

2026– Appointed member, UKRI-STFC Projects Peer Review Panel — expert evaluation and strategic advice on major UKRI-STFC project proposals across particle physics, particle astrophysics, nuclear physics and astronomy.
2025– Royal Society University Research Fellowships extended research appointment panel (astronomy, cosmology, physics, earth & environmental sciences).
2022–24 Chair, UKRI-STFC GridPP7 Peer Review Panel — UK computing for experimental particle physics and the WLCG; refocused R&D toward sustainable computing.
2019– Member, UKRI-STFC Particle Physics Grants Panel — assessment of all UK particle-physics grant applications, ~£100M per cycle (reappointed 2022; again 2025–27).
2018– Individual grant/fellowship review-panel member: UKRI Talent Peer Review College; Royal Society URFs; STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships; Alan Turing Institute programmes; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); National Science Centre (Poland).

Within the organisational structure of the University of Manchester

2026– Chair, Manchester Leadership Group for the British Science Festival 2027; member, British Science Association BSF Steering Group.
2026– Member, Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement (JBCE) Programme Advisory Board.
2025– Member of Senate, University of Manchester.
2025– Member, UoM Public and Civic Engagement Group.
2024– Member, Faculty Extended Leadership Team, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
2024– Associate Dean for Engagement (public, civic, outreach), Faculty of Science & Engineering — strategic leadership of the FSE Engagement strand; reconfigured the function into an income-generating unit securing >£400k external funding in the first year.
2017–25 Director, 4IR STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science — consortium across Manchester (lead), Lancaster and Sheffield; 28 PhD students.
2017– Leader, Manchester dark matter research group — founded the research area; central role in the successful UK DarkSide funding bid; delivered 25% of the DarkSide-20k silicon photosensor instrumentation.
2016–25 Postgraduate Coordinator for Particle Physics — admissions, training, pastoral support and finance for over 120 research students across the role; over 65 at any one time.
2015–20 Member, Department of Physics & Astronomy Equality & Diversity and Juno committees (Athena SWAN / IoP Juno Champion period).

Professional service

2011– Journal referee — PRL, JHEP, EPJC, NJP, Rev. Mod. Phys., Phys. Lett. B.
2009– Chair/member of sixteen Editorial Review Boards within ATLAS and DØ.

Fellowships & prizes

2025 Co-awardee, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
2020–24 University Presidential Fellowship, University of Manchester.
2019–23 Turing Fellowship / Turing AI Fellowship, Alan Turing Institute.
2015 Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, UKRI-STFC.
2015 Senior Experimental Fellowship, IPPP, University of Durham.
2013 Co-awardee, European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.
2013 EU Marie Curie IEF Fellowship, European Commission.

Research grants

Combined grant income attributable to me of £6.2 million, with a total grant value of £25.5 million. Awarded five competitive research fellowships, co-awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2025) and the European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2013).

2025–27 Particle Physics Experimental Consolidated Grant · Co-I · STFC
2024–27 DarkSide-UK project grant · PI · STFC
2023–25 Boulby Laboratory infrastructure development project · PI · UKRI
2023–26 Experiment Responsive RA Grant · Co-I · STFC
2023–24 Data Intensive Science CDT funding · PI · STFC
2022–25 DarkSide-UK project grant · PI · STFC
2022 IRIS Digital Research Infrastructure grant · PI · STFC
2022–25 Particle Physics Experimental Consolidated Grant · Co-I · STFC
2021 4IR CDT Impact Acceleration Account award · PI · STFC
2021–25 PPRP DarkSide project grant · Co-I (UK) / PI (UoM part) · STFC
2020–24 Training Grant (Industrial CASE) · PI · STFC
2020 CDT award (NPIF talent funding) · PI · STFC
2019–21 Turing AI Project Award — “Towards machine learning-enabled scientific discovery” · PI · Alan Turing Institute
2019–23 DarkSide Experimental Consolidated Grant · Co-I · STFC
2019–22 Manchester Consolidated Grant · Co-I · STFC
2017–25 CDT award — “From Steam Engines to Data Engines: big science and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)” · PI · STFC
2017–19 ATLAS Upgrade R&D research grant · Co-I · STFC
2016–20 PPGP Capital Equipment grant · Co-I · STFC
2015–20 Senior Experimental Fellowship award · PI · IPPP Durham
2015–20 Ernest Rutherford Fellowship — “Using the LHC as an electroweak boson collider” · PI · STFC
2013–15 Marie Curie IEF — “A path to understanding: precision studies through Weak Boson Fusion” · PI · EU FP7

Conference & workshop organisation

2026 Chair — DarkSide Collaboration meeting, Manchester, UK
2025 Chair — DarkSide-UK Collaboration meeting, Manchester, UK
2023 Chair — ATLAS-UK collaboration meeting, Manchester, UK
2023 Organising committee — International Workshop on Multiple Parton Interactions at the LHC, Manchester, UK
2022 Organising committee — Lepton Photon 2021 (held 2022), Manchester, UK
2021 Organising committee — Quarkonia As Tools, Virtual
2021 International Scientific Committee — Light Detection in Noble Elements
2019 Chair — Data science physics & astronomy scoping workshop, Alan Turing Institute, UK
2019 Organising committee — Light Detection in Noble Elements, Manchester, UK
2019 Chair — Dark Matter UK community meeting, Manchester, UK
2019 Local organising committee — PASCOS 2019, Manchester, UK
2019 Organising committee — Quarkonia As Tools, Aussois, France
2018 Organiser — Effective Field Theory Hackathon (5-day workshop), IPPP Durham, UK
2017 Working group convener — LHC Chapter 2: The Run for New Physics, IIP-UFRN Natal, Brazil
2016 Organiser — Future of Vector Boson Fusion measurements (workshop), IPPP Durham, UK
2015 Convener & organiser — QCD sessions, EPS-HEP 2015, Vienna, Austria
2015 Organising committee — IoP High Energy Particle Physics Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK
2014 Organising committee — Quarkonium2014: Probing QCD at the LHC, CERN, Geneva
2013 Organiser — ATLAS workshop on Vector Boson Fusion, Manchester, UK
2013 Scientific organising committee — Young Experimentalist & Theorist Institute on HEP, Durham, UK
2013 Organiser — Experimental-theory workshop on new physics opportunities with vector boson plus quarkonium production, CERN, Geneva
2012 Convener — QCD sessions, Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, Kyoto, Japan

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