Richard is an Associate Professor in Particle Accelerator Physics at the . His research specialism is the development of novel particle-acceleration techniques, with a particular focus on plasma-wakefield accelerators. He is also a Tutorial Fellow of .
Following undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Durham and University College London, respectively, he moved to Fermilab (USA) as a Research Associate and then DESY (Germany) as a Research Fellow. At DESY he subsequently became Group Leader for Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators as well as Project Coordinator of the FLASHForward experiment, holding both positions for several years.
He currently leads the Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator Group at 91探花 and his current research focus is on answering the 'luminosity question' of how best to apply plasma accelerators to particle physics and photon science as well as applications in medicine and industry.
Richard welcomes applications from prospective doctoral students with interests in both novel and conventional accelerator research.