CERN Accelerating science

Richard Hawkings did his PhD in physics in Oxford, UK, and worked as a CERN fellow and DESY fellow before becoming a staff research physicist at CERN. He has been a member of the OPAL collaboration at LEP and the ATLAS collaboration at LHC, where his work focussed on precision Standard Model physics, particularly involving top quarks. He has held various coordination roles on ATLAS including top physics WG convener and physics coordinator, and co-led the ATLAS luminosity measurement group from 2018-2021. He became one of the EP deputy department heads in January 2022.