Research
Research Interest 1
I am a research high energy physicist who has worked on QCD with the OPAL collaboration, SUSY searches with the ALEPH collaboration and B physics with ATLAS, BaBar and since 2000 LHCb. I have also helped build the LHCb VELO detector at Liverpool.
I currently study the decays of the Bs and Lambda_b meson using LHCb data and am the coordinator for all software to support the LHCb VELO detector.
I run the Liverpool GridPP site, which is part of the international network of computers that are required to analysis the LHC data.
Research groups
Research grants
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2022
UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
October 2022 - September 2025
GridPP6 University of Liverpool Tier-2 Hardware Tranche-2 (2022-2024)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2021 - March 2024
LHCb Upgrade II: maximising HL-LHC discovery potential
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2020 - September 2024
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2019 - September 2025
GridPP6 Liverpool Staff Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2020 - March 2024
GridPP5 Liverpool site tranche 2 h/w Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2018 - March 2020
GridPP5 Liverpool site tranche 1 h/w Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
December 2016 - March 2018
GridPP4+ NorthGrid Liverpool h/w Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
December 2015 - March 2016
Particle Physics Consolidated award
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2015 - September 2019
GridPP5 Liverpool Staff Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2016 - September 2020
LHCb Upgrade: Beyond the Energy Frontier.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2014 - March 2023
GridPP4: The UK Grid for Particle Physics
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2011 - September 2013
Particle Physics Consolidated Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2012 - September 2016
LHCb e-science workpackage 2&3: VELO software [WP2], tools and algorithms [WP3].
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
August 2005 - November 2008
Scheduler demonstrator for a parallel processor based computer cluster: STFC Global Challenges Concepts Fund
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2014 - March 2016
GridPP4 Tranche-II NorthGrid-Liverpool Staff Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2013 - September 2015
GridPP4+ Liverpool Staff Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2015 - March 2016
GridPP4 Tranche-2 NorthGrid Liverpool h/w Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
November 2013 - March 2014
Provision of Tier-2 computer hardware and system support from Sept 2007 to March 2011
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2008 - June 2011
Provision of Tier-2 computer hardware and system support from February 2010 to March 2011.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
February 2010 - April 2011
Particle Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2006 - September 2011
The University of Liverpool, Department of Physics Rolling Grant.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2009 - March 2011
University of Liverpool, Department of Physics Particle Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2010 - September 2012
GridPP networking infrastructure (DRI)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
December 2011 - March 2012
GridPP4 Tranche 1 NorthGrid Liverpool Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
February 2012 - March 2012