Robert finished his MPhys. at Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 2007 and stayed on to study a D.Phil. in feedback electronics before moving to CERN to undertake a postgraduate research fellowship in 2012. He then started at Lancaster University's Engineering department in 2014 as a PDRA before becoming an international lecturer in 2018, teaching at the LU/BJTU joint campus in Weihai, China.
Robert's research interests are:
- High power RF electronics
- Radiotherapy
- Nonlinear & off-axis beam dynamics
- Feedback electronics and filter design
- Interactions between charged particle beams and RF electromagnetic fields
- Broadband RF acceleration
