Paul Collier OBE FREng is a British physicist and the Head of Beams Department (BE) at CERN. He has worked on the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP), the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),[1][2] either through engineering contributions or leadership over 25 years.
Paul Collier | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Sheffield Hallam University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | CERN Sheffield Hallam University |
Biography and career
editIn 1982, Collier went to Sheffield Hallam University to study for a PhD in applied physics. He later became a lecturer in applied physics and electrical engineering at the same university.
Collier now works at The European Organization for Nuclear Research better known as CERN. He started at CERN in January 1987, as part of a 3-year fellows training program for young scientist and engineers.[3] During his program, he worked on the construction and installation of the radio frequency accelerating system for the accelerator LEP. At the end of the 3-year program, he was recruited as an engineer and sent to work in the operations group.
Collier is the head of Beams Department at CERN.[4]: 89 He has been in that role since 2009. The Beams department's task is to operate the accelerators at CERN. The department has around 600 people, approximately 400 are staff members and the rest are students, fellows and industrial support staff.
Memberships and honors
edit- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), 2015[1]
- Order of the British Empire (OBE) Queen's Birthday Honours Overseas list, June 2019[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Paul Collier". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ Stoddart, Charlotte (29 March 2022). "How particle accelerators came to be". Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews. doi:10.1146/knowable-032822-1. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ^ "Paul Collier". Alumni profile. Sheffield Hallam University. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
- ^ "Paul Collier's presentation on 17 December 2018". CERN. 17 December 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2019: the Foreign Secretary's overseas list" (PDF). Birthday Honours lists 2019. Gov.UK. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.