Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, F. Inst. P, FAPS, FAAAS
Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics
Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester 
And
Director
Cockcroft Institute
Daresbury, Warrington
Cheshire, UK.


     Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay holds the Sir John Cockcroft Chair of 
Physics at Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster -- the 
First Chair of accelerator physics in UK, named after the British Nobel 
Laureate credited with creating the field. Concurrently, he is the 
inaugural Director of the newly created international centre of 
accelerator science and technology, the Cockcroft Institute  in 
Cheshire, UK – a joint venture of STFC, Universities of Liverpool, 
Manchester, Lancaster and the North West Development Agency (NWDA). 
Joining the university faculty since April 19, 2007, and working closely 
with staff at Rutherford Appleton Lab, Daresbury Lab and UK Industries, 
Prof. Chattopadhyay is spearheading the UK initiatives in advancing 
accelerators to drive particle, nuclear, synchrotron radiation and 
neutron sciences on a national and international scale as well as 
promoting knowledge exchange in collaboration with academia, federal 
research labs and industry. 

     Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Chattopadhyay served as the 
Associate Director of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility 
in USA (2001-2007), Founder/Director of the Centre for Beam Physics at 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1992-2001) and Senior Scientist 
at Berkeley Lab and Professor in the Graduate School at University of 
California at Berkeley (1984 – 2001). 
     Born and educated in Darjeeling and Calcutta, India as a National 
Scholar and National Science Talent Scholar till completion of his 
undergraduate studies, he completed Ph.D. in Physics from Berkeley in 
1982 and spent two critical years 1982-1984 at CERN in Geneva, 
Switzerland as a Scientific Attaché. There he contributed significantly 
to the phase-space cooling of antiprotons leading to luminous 
proton-antiproton collisions that established the existence of the 
Intermediate Vector Bosons responsible for the unification of the 
electro-weak force in nature. Subsequent professional developments have 
led to increasing diversification of Prof. Chattopadhyay’s career over 
time leading to significant milestones of accomplishments to date: 
design, construction and commissioning of the Advanced Light Source at 
Berkeley, 
pioneering the Berkeley-Stanford Asymmetric Electron-Positron Collider 
PEP-II towards CP-violation studies, initiating the research program at 
Berkeley on laser-plasma acceleration and on ultra-fast x-ray sources in 
the femto- and atto-second time scales and critical advancements in 
microwave superconductivity at Jefferson Lab  leading the way to current 
and future grand instruments of science such as the Spallation Neutron 
Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA and the current 
superconducting version of the International Linear Collider , to name a 
few.

     Prof. Chattopadhyay is a Fellow of the American Physical Society 
(USA), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
(USA) and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK). He has been awarded 
the Berkeley Halbach Prize (1996) for development of femto-second X-ray 
sources, multiple US Department of Energy Research Awards, JAERI 
Distinguished Visiting Scientist of the Year award (Japan 1995-96), and 
Raja Ramanna Memorial Award (India, 2005). He is currently the 
Vice-chair of the American Physical Society’s division of physics of 
beams, a member of the beam dynamics panel of the International 
Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and serves on numerous 
editorial, advisory and review committees throughout the world.  Having 
contributed to the conception, design, construction, commissioning and 
operation of numerous accelerators for particle physics, nuclear 
physics, synchrotron radiation and neutron sciences around the world, 
especially mentoring scientists in the developing nations and with 
significant research accomplishments in advanced particle and photon 
beam physics, Prof. Chattopadhyay is a frequently invited speaker and 
advisor at professional societies and government research agencies 
around the world.