Curriculum Vitae of

Peter Robert Hobson BSc PhD C.Phys. M.Inst.P

Employer: Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH

Department: Electronic and Computer Engineering

Current Post: Reader

Date of Appointment: 1/9/1986 (promoted 1/10/95 and 1/10/2000)

Academic and Professional Qualifications

School 1965-1977, Daniel Stewart's and Melville College, Edinburgh University 1977-1981, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland (Degree in Physics)

1980 Awarded the Fraser (Donald) Bursary, Edinburgh University

1981 Graduated with Honours BSc, class 2i

1981-1984, University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Postgraduate research, leading to the award of a PhD, in High Energy Physics

1983 Awarded the Carey Foster Research Prize, University College London

1985 Awarded the degree of PhD (University of London)

 Professional

1984 Appointed to an RA1A post at University College London (Physics & Astronomy)

1986 Appointed as Lecturer in Department of Physics, Brunel University

1991 Elected to Membership of the Institute of Physics (C.Phys., M.Inst.P.)

1995 Promoted to Senior Lecturer at Brunel University
2000 Promoted to Reader at Brunel University

 Research Development over last five years In the last five years I have had two main areas of research, Particle Physics and holography. In Particle Physics, I have begun to play an active role in the new CMS collaboration which has proposed an experiment for the recently approved Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In this collaboration I have been involved in developing entirely new scintillators based on hafnium fluoride glasses in close collaboration with a group at RAL. Arising out of this I was awarded one of the first PPARC "PIPSS" grants to work with UK industry on the exploitation of these developments. Currently I am involved (with Bristol, ICST&M and RAL) in setting up a UK "Regional Centre" for the production of the end-cap calorimeters for the CMS experiment. This is an industrial scale project with a scheduled completion data for the CMS detector in the year 2005.

Since 1990 I have also been working on precision holographic photogrammetry, and in particular the image structure in replayed hologram images, and the problems of acquiring data from 3D image volumes. I formed an inter-disciplinary collaboration of holographers and oceanographers to pursue the possibility of using holography underwater to record marine plankton. In 1994 we were successful in winning NERC funding, and I was awarded one semester's sabbatical leave by Brunel University in October 1994 to pursue this research in Aberdeen University. I have continued to expand this research with the creation of a European collaboration to produce a prototype submersible holographic camera (EU funding awarded in 1997).

Publications Author, or co-author, of over 270 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. The majority of these publications (about 220) have been as one of over 300 authors in the OPAL international High Energy Physics collaboration. The remainder have been either sole author papers or papers with a small number of co-authors; these have been mainly in the field of optical holography, or detector development.

I have been one of the organisers and Guest Editors of the first five Position Sensitive Detectors Conferences whose proceedings have been published as special issues of Nuclear Instruments and Methods (A).

Referee for Nuclear Instruments and Methods (A), Optics and Laser Technology, Electronics Letters, Journal of Modern Optics, Deep Sea Research, Measurement Science and Technology Book reviewer for Journal of Contemporary Physics

Technical skills