Prof Dr Carsten P Welsch
| Name | Carsten P. Welsch Group Leader |
| Address | Cockcroft Institute (S.07) Sci -Tech Daresbury University of Liverpool Warrington WA4 4AD, UK |
| Phone | +44 (0) 1925 86 43 52 +44 (0) 79 73 24 79 82 |
| carsten.welsch@cockcroft.ac.uk |
Background
Professor Carsten P Welsch studied physics and economics at the Universities of Frankfurt (Germany) and UC Berkeley (USA) and completed his PhD in accelerator physics at the University of Frankfurt. After two years as Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and almost three years as Fellow at CERN, he founded the QUASAR Group in 2007. He has been a member academic staff at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology since 2008. In 2011, he was promoted to Full Professor of Physics and he was Head of the Physics Department between 2016 and 2023. Under his leadership, the Department developed into one of the UK's very best physics departments (REF2021 and 2x Guardian Top 10).
Professor Welsch's research drives scientific breakthrough in low energy antimatter physics, as well as innovation in the design and optimization of particle accelerators and underpinning technologies. His QUASAR Group has pioneered many innovative beam monitoring techniques - from gas jet-based non-invasive beam monitors over high dynamic range halo monitors, all the way to cryogenic current comparators for the characterization of nA beams.
As Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he is constantly pushing for improved teaching standards. He has initiated and coordinated six pan-European research networks that were supported by the EU with 25M€. These have successfully trained more than 100 Marie Curie Fellows. He is also Director of two STFC CDTs on Data Intensive Science, LIV.DAT and LIV.INNO. These are some of the largest research and training initiatives ever realized in his research area. As past Chair of STFC's Education Training and Careers Committee and member of the UKRI Skills Advisory Group, current member of STFC Council, and advisor to governments and policy organizations, he frequently takes a lead role in strategic research and training planning on an international scale.
Professor Welsch has organized more than 50 international conferences, schools and topical workshops for the wider scientific community. His outreach activities have impacted on Millions around the world and allowed him to share his passion for discovery science, particle accelerators and physics more widely. As a member of various scientific advisory committees, he helps define future research trends and the advancement of physics.