My ambition is to contribute to the development of the technologies required to study the properties of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces that bind them together. I am convinced that these same technologies have the potential to create new opportunities at accelerator-based scientific infrastructures and to serve society by delivering a paradigm-shift in the bio-medical application of particle beams.
My research interests also include the development of muon accelerators to serve future high-precision neutrino experiments and as the basis of a multi-TeV muon collider. As spokesman of the international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment I led the construction project and the successful commissioning and data taking programmes which culminated in the publication in Nature of the collaboration's seminal demonstration of ionization cooling. The muon is unstable and so the beam must be accelerated rapidly to the desired energy. Fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerator (FFA) technology has been shown to provide the ideal solution to the acceleration of muon beams. Therefore the development of FFA technology provides a key link between my work on LhARA and my work on muon beams for particle physics.