Andy Parker

Andy is a CERN leader and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department) at the University of Cambridge.

Andy is a Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Physics Department. He is an expert in high energy physics, extraspace dimensions, quantum-sized black holes and supersymmetry, with over 500 publications to his name. He is a founder of the ATLAS experiment for the Large Hadron Collider and has commercially developed silicon detectors, fast electronics, large software systems and pattern recognition, and he has pioneered computational radiotherapy and artificial photosynthesis. Andy’s awards include the Pilkington Prize for excellence.