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