Professor Susan Smith is Head of STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory, she was appointed as head in 2012. She works closely with the JV partners in the SciTech Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus to accelerate the growth of the Campus. Susan led the team responsible for developing a strategy to secure their far reaching vision: to develop the campus as a national centre for large-scale science, innovation and entrepreneurship deliver growth and high quality jobs, regionally in North West England and nationally across the UK.
A graduate of Glasgow University, Susan started as a physicist in 1985 at Daresbury Laboratory on the development of the SRS and then the design of the Oxford Compact Source. From ~1995 till 2007, she led the lattice design for the UK’s Diamond Light Source and then progressed to the leadership of accelerator studies. She is currently Director of STFC’s Accelerator Science and Technology Centre, a partner constituent of the Cockcroft Accelerator Institute together with Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster Universities.
