Managing Science Developing your Research, Leadership and Management Skills

by Peach, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780191837234
• ISBN10: 0191837237
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-12-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ken Peach, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford

Afrer 25 years as an experimental particle physicist at the University of Edinburgh and becoming head of the group in 1990, Ken Peach became Deputy Director of the Particle Physics Experiments Division at CERN in 1996, and then Director of Particle Physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1998. In 2005, he became Director of the newly-established John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, a joint venture between the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London. While at Oxford, he co-created the Particle Therapy Cancer Research Institute. Following retirement from Oxford in 2011, he was appointed Dean of Faculty of Affairs in 2014 at the newly-created Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, retiring in 2016.