Advisory Panels to PPAN

Five standing advisory panels will report to STFC’s Science Committee for Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics.

The panels will cover the areas of:

• Particle Physics Advisory Panel (PPAP) - this information is held on the University of Cambridge website (link opens in a new window)
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• Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel (NPAP) - this information is held on the University of Birmingham website (link opens in a new window)
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• Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel (PAAP) - this information is held on the Cardiff University website (link opens in a new window)
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• Near Universe Advisory Panel (NUAP) - covering those parts of the astronomy and space science programmes concerned with the sun, solar system and the properties of objects within our galaxy
  
  
• Far Universe Advisory Panel (FUAP) covering those parts of the astronomy and space science programmes concerned with the global properties of our galaxy, with objects beyond our galaxy, and with cosmology - this information is held on the Portsmouth University website (link opens in a new window)
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The remit of the panels will include Theory, High Performance Computing and Data Curation issues in their respective areas.

The panels are tasked to:

• Draft and maintain a roadmap describing current and future research opportunities in their areas, for presentation and approval by PPAN
• Consult and interact with the community to ensure its views are canvassed and there is an appropriate and effective route for communication with STFC on strategic programmatic issues
• Make an independent presentation to PPAN on the relevant panel area in years in which an STFC Programmatic Review takes place, thereby providing community input to the programmatic review process
• Respond to other specific requests from PPAN for advice as the need arises

Each panel will consist of a chair, deputy chair and between three and six (more in exceptional cases) additional members, one of whom will ideally be appointed from the relevant grants panel. Members will serve for two years with the possibility of reappointment.

STFC will support and organise one face to face meeting of each panel per year, but panel members are encouraged to self-organise additional meetings as they feel necessary.

Panel Members

The membership of each panel can be found below:

Particle Physics Advisory Panel:

• Chair: Phil Burrows – University of Oxford
• Deputy Chair: Claire Shepherd-Thermistocleas – STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• Cinzia Da Via – University of Manchester
• Tim Gershon – University of Warwick
• Nigel Glover – Durham University
• Mark Thomson – University of Cambridge
• Dan Tovey – University of Sheffield

Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel:

• Chair: Martin Freer – University of Birmingham
• Alison Laird – University of York
• Zsolt Podolyak – University of Surrey
• Neils Walet – University of Manchester
• Phil Woods – University of Edinburgh

Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel:

• Chair: Philip Mauskopf – Cardiff University
• Giles Hammond, Glasgow – University of Glasgow
• Phillip Harris – University of Sussex
• Jim Hinton – University of Leeds
• Alex Murphy – University of Edinburgh
• Silvia Pascoli – Durham University

Near Universe Advisory Panel:

• Chair: Michele Dougherty – Imperial College London
• Emma Bunce – University of Leicester
• Paulo D’Arrigo – Astrium
• Ian Franchi – Open University
• Boris Gaensicke – University of Warwick
• Tom Hartquist – University of Leeds
• Sarah Matthews – University College London (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
• Don Pollacco – Queen’s University Belfast

Far Universe Advisory Panel:

• Chair: Bob Nichol – University of Portsmouth
• Anthony Challinor – University of Cambridge
• Sarah Bridle – University College London
• Shude Mao – University of Manchester
• Rob Fender – University of Southampton
• Chris Conselice – University of Nottingham
• Paul O'Brien – University of Leicester