Alan Barr
Work:
Denys Wilkinson Building
Keble Road
Oxford
OX1 3RH
Home:
2 Cedar Drive,
Witney,
Oxfordshire,
OX28 1EJ
E-mail:
barr@hep.ucl.ac.uk
D.O.B.
2nd May 1977
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: British
Education and Employment
2007-
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
University Lecturer in Particle Physics, and PPARC Advanced Fellow
2007-
Merton College, Oxford
Tutorial Fellow in Physics
2005-2007
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
University Lecturer and PPARC Advanced Fellow
Oct 2005 to May 2006: Attachment to CERN
2002-2005
High Energy Physics group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
PPARC Postdoctoral Fellow
Jan 2004 to August 2005: Attachment to University of Oxford Particle Physics
1999-2002
High Energy Physics group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Ph.D. funded by Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
June 2001 to Dec 2001: Attachment to CERN
1998
CERN Summer Studentship
CMS silicon R&D group – leading contributor to beam test analysis
1995-1999
Churchill College, Cambridge
Natural Sciences Tripos: M. Nat. Sci. in Exp. and Theor. Physics – first class honours
Natural Sciences Tripos: B.A. in Exp. and Theor. Physics – first class honours
1988-1995
Coleraine Academical Institution, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry
A-Level: 5A's in Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Chemistry, and Biology
GCSE:
9A's, 2B's, including English, Mathematics, and French
Postgraduate Teaching and Supervision
2006
2005-
2003-
Lectures – High energy physics (UCL)
University of London course on Higgs and supersymmetric physics
Supervisor – postgraduate student supervisor (UCL)
Projects on supersymmetry discovery at ATLAS and commissioning and cosmic ray studies
of the ATLAS SCT.
Supervisor – 4th year projects
Cambridge 2003-2004 and UCL 2006-2007
Undergraduate Teaching
2004-2005
1999-2001
1999-2003
1999-2001
Class Tutor – 4th year particle physics course (Oxford)
Three terms. 4  1st class and 3  2:1 from class of eight
College Supervisor – 1st year mathematics for Natural Sciences (Churchill, Cambridge)
Six terms teaching four pairs of students
Examples class demonstrator – various revision classes (Cavendish, Cambridge)
Electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics
Practical demonstrator – 3rd year project on bubble chamber experiment (Cavendish,
Cambridge)
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Research Grants
2006
C.I.
Submitted
DAQ and off-detector electronics for an ATLAS tracker upgrade
2006
P.I.
Submitted
Design studies for an ATLAS tracker upgrade (joint CASE
studentship proposal with RAL)
2006
C.I.
£5.7 M
Experimental High Energy Particle Physics Research at UCL
2005
P.I.
£210 k
Exploring Beyond the Standard Model Physics with the ATLAS
Experiment at the LHC
2002
P.I.
£97 k
Preparing for Beyond the Standard Model Physics with the
ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
Additional Roles
200620062006
2006
2005-2006
2004-2005
Management board – ATLAS semiconductor tracker UK MB, UCL representative.
Editor – ATLAS supersymmetry data preparation paper: “Search for direct gaugino
production with early ATLAS data”
Invited contributor – Council of Science and Technology research endeavour seminar (UK
government top-level advisory panel on S&T)
Reviewer – ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker, Frequency Scanning Interferometer (SCT FSI)
system.
Convener – UK working group for supersymmetric and exotic physics at the ATLAS
experiment.
Scientific organizing committee – YETI conference at the Institute for Particle Physics
Phenomenology, Durham, Jan 2005: ‘From current collider experiments to the Large
Hadron Collider’
Public Understanding of Science
2000-
Interviews – for the broadcast media, including the BBC and Channel 4 News
Advisor – Science Museum exhibit on LHC physics.
Talks – secondary school physics classes
Physics Masterclass – particle physics teaching and demonstration for A-level students
National Science Week – hands-on physics experiments for the general public
Awards
1996-1999
1995
Beatrice Blower-Brown Award – special academic award, Churchill College, Cambridge
Bullard Prize – for the highest mark in Physics in Churchill College, Cambridge
Churchill College Scholarships – awarded in all years for Cambridge undergraduate
examination results
Institute of Physics Award – for highest mark in A-level Physics Examination (N.I. Board)
Hans Sloane Award – for highest marks in combined A-level Physics, Chemistry, and
Biology (N.I. Board, 2nd prize)
Clothworker's Guild Scholarship – for best A-Level results in Coleraine Academical
Institution
Other Skills
Media training Royal society media training course with commendation
Programming C, C++, OO design, CORBA, Java, FORTRAN
Languages
English (native). French (working knowledge)
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