Roger Cashmore - Curriculum Vitae#

Roger John Cashmore was born at 22th August 1944 in the United Kingdom. He started his education at Dudley Boys Grammar School. In 1965 he got BA degree at St John´s College at Cambridge University. Then he continued his studies at Balliol College and University College, both at Oxford University, where he gained his PhD at 1969. His doctoral thesis was entitled A study of inelastic pion-proton interactions in the range 600-800 MeV/c.

Cashmore started his carrier as research associate at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he worked until 1974, when he returns to Oxford as a research officer. He was a teaching lecturer at Christ Church for two years, as well as Senior Research Fellow at Mellow and Fellow and Tutor at Balliol. As a university lecturer in Physics he started working at 1979. Cashmore was appointed Reader in Experimental Physics in 1990 and Professor of Experimental Physics in 1991. He was also a Head of Particle and Nuclear Physics from 1991 until 1996 and Chair of the Department of Physics for two years. He is also Deputy Director General and Research Director of Collider Programmes at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Roger John Cashmore was appointed Principal of Brasenose at 2002, and just recently he unannounced that he wants to retire from his role as Principal at the end of the academic year (30thSeptember 2011). After his 7 years at Brasenose, during which time there have been many substantial and successful changes, the Principal wishes to focus on his role as Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and to return to his research interests at CERN and the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), at what is a particularly exciting time for particle physics.

He was Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1982, Science and Engineering Research Council Senior Research Fellow from 1982 until 1987, a guest scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for a year, and held an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 1995.

Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II appointed Roger Cashmore Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George for services to international cooperation in particle physics in the New Year Honours List 2004. He was awarded the C.V. Boys Prize in 1983. Cashmore was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1985, a member of Academia Europa in 1992, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1996, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998. On 28th July 2010 business Secretary Vince Cable appointed Roger Cashmore as the Chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.