Meet Dan Faircloth, Low Energy Beams Group Leader at the ISIS Spallation Neutron Source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Dan received his degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1995, and stayed on to earn an MSc in electrical power engineering in 1996 and a PhD in high voltage engineering in 2000. After completing his studies he worked for 3 years at the UK’s National Grid research laboratories before moving to ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

For over 20 years Dan has worked on accelerator technologies across the whole of ISIS. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and the founder of the IET Particle Accelerator Engineering Network. He has a rich history of international collaboration. He worked on the development of the CERN LINAC4 ion source and has delivered a diagnostic beam to the CERN ALPHA experiment. He has also provided ion sources to CSNS, ESS Bilbao and FNAL. Dan’s Low Energy Beams group has extensive capabilities to develop accelerator hardware and related plasma technologies for national labs and industry.

Dan gives lectures about particle sources, secondary beams and high voltage engineering for the John Adams and Cockcroft Institutes in the UK. He has been a lecturer for CAS since 2011. He helped to develop the CAS school on ion sources in 2012.