Swapan Chattopadhyay

Swapan Chattopadhyay (born December 26, 1951) is a particle accelerator physicist noted for his pioneering contributions of innovative concepts, techniques and developments in high energy particle colliders, coherent and incoherent light sources, ultrafast sciences in the femto and atto second regimes, superconducting linear accelerators and various applications of interaction of particle and light beams He has directly contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, eg the Super ProtonAntiproton Synchrotron and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley, the asymmetricenergy electronpositron collider PEPII at Stanford, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab and the FreeElectron Lasers at Jefferson and Daresbury Laboratories Chattopadhyay currently holds a triple appointment as the Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics jointly at the 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 international centre of accelerator science and technology, the Cockcroft Institute (UK), opened officially by the UK Minister of Science Lord Sainsbury in 2006