Professor of Physics at Queen Mary University of London, leading the Particle Physics Research Centre.
Together with Sadaf Alam, Jon leads the National Federated Compute Services Network Plus Programme. He is Science Director of the STFC IRIS Federation and a member of the project board of the GridPP Project.
Jon completed his PhD in Experimental Particle Physics at Imperial College London in 2000. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate first for Imperial and then from 2004 for Northwestern University based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. In 2006 he took up a PPARC Advanced Research Fellowship at Imperial College. In 2012 he joined Queen Mary as a Lecturer with promotion to Professor in 2021.
Jon’s scientific interests have spanned many areas including detector design, data acquisition systems, algorithm development, precision electroweak measurements and searches for Higgs bosons and new phenomena. More recently he has been focussing on measurements of neutrinos and the search for dark matter. However, a constant theme throughout his career has been research computing, acting at various times as a user, developer, administrator, service provider, coordinator and leader.
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