Peter Ratoff (1974)
Emeritus Professor of Physics at Lancaster University
Born and educated in the north-west of England, he read physics at Oxford University and completed a PhD in experimental neutrino physics at University College London. Following postdoctoral research positions at Caltech and Oxford University, he was appointed to a lectureship in particle physics at Lancaster University in 1991 and is now a Distinguished Professor at the same institution. He served as head of the Physics Department for nearly nine years and then spent a similar period based at STFC Daresbury Laboratory as the Director of the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science & Technology, a partnership between the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester & Strathclyde, and STFC. In early 2023 he stepped down from the Cockcroft Directorship to take up a new leadership role at Daresbury in the DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) detector construction factory.
