Ken Peach

<h2 >Ken Peach (Chair)</h2>

<div >Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and  Interim Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.</div>

<div >B.Sc (Edinburgh, 1967), Ph.D. (Edinburgh, 1972) F.Inst.P, C.Phys (1989), FRSE (1999)</div>

<p >Professor Peach is Professor Emeritus at the university of Oxford, having been Professor of Accelerator Science with the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (of which he was Director 2005-2010) at the University of Oxford; He has recently been appinted Interim Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Okinawa Institute of Science and technology (OIST). He is interested in all aspects of the treatment of cancer using charged particles such as protons and light ions such as helium or carbon, including the accelerator, imaging and diagnostic equipment, radiobiology, and cancer informatics. Previously he has worked on the design of a new type of accelerator (the non-linear non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient accelerator) with particular emphasis on Charged Particle Cancer Therapy and on CLIC, the Compact Linear Collider. Between 1998 and 2005 he was Director of the Particle Physics Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and was also Director of e-Science from 2004 to 2005. From 1996 to 1998 he was Deputy Leader of the Experimental Physics Division at CERN. Before that, he was at the University of Edinburgh from 1970 to 1996, performing a number of experiments on the decays of neutral kaons and other experiments, mostly at CERN. He has served as a member of or chair of many international review committees, including being the chair of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee from 2007 to 2009. He was a member of the SNO Agency Review Committee and the Scientific Sub-Committee from 1998 to 2005."

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