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I am head of the Particle Physics Theory (PPT) group in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. I have been in Glasgow since 1986 having previously worked in Cambridge University, CERN, Cornell University, The Ohio State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara.

My research is focussed on the phenomoenology of the strong force, and in particular the solution of the theory, QCD, using a numerical method known as lattice QCD. More details are available from the research link on the left.

I am a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2005 I was awarded the Rosalind Franklin prize by the Royal Society and in 2006 an OBE in the Queen's 80th birthday Honours list. I also won the Institute of Physics High Energy Particle Physics group prize in 2006. I currently hold a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust senior research fellowship.

I chair the Diversity committee for the Institute of Physics and sit on IOP Council and the Athena Forum. I am a member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council particle physics grants panel (theory). During 2008 I sat on the review panel for the RCUK review of physics, aka the Wakeham Committe.