Prof Simon Peeters

Post:	Professor of Physics (Critical Infrastructure Resilience Network)
Other posts:	Reader (Experimental Particle Physics Research Group)

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Biography

I completed my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in Experimental Particle Physics on the Inner Detector of the ATLAS experiment and a study of potential Higgs searches with this experiment. Because at that time the ATLAS would not be operational for a quite a few years, I switched to neutrino physics. I joined the University of Oxford as a PostDoctoral Researcher and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (for which I shared in the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics in 2015).

I joined the University of Sussex in 2008 and continue on to work on the forefront of neutrino physics (with the experiments SNO+, JSNS2, and DUNE). I also developed a strong interest in experiments looking for the direct observation of Dark Matter (DEAP-3600, DarkSide), which face many similar experimental challenges as in neutrino physics.

Role

• Chair of the Experimental Particle Physics (EPP) research group
• Director of Recruitment and Admissions for the school of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• Chair of the teaching laboratory committee

Community and Business

I regularly give public talks about particle physics to the general public, secondary and primary schools. I am also working with local businesses to help them to develop better products, using my experience with particle physics detectors.