Dr Andrew Taylor

I am Director of ISIS, the world’s leading pulsed neutron source.  Following a degree in Natural Philosophy from Glasgow and a DPhil in neutron scattering at St John’s College, Oxford, I joined Rutherford Laboratory in 1975 as part of a small team promoting accelerator-based neutron sources as tools to investigate the microscopic structure and dynamics of condensed matter.  During my career at Rutherford Laboratory and a secondment to Los Alamos in the USA, I have made seminal contributions to the development of pulsed neutron source instrumentation and science.  I serve on international advisory committees in Grenoble, China, the United States and Japan.

In 1999 I was awarded an OBE for services to neutron science and in 2006, the Glazebrook Medal from the Institute of Physics.  I was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society Edinburgh in March 2006 and Fellowship of the Institute of Physics in March 2007.  In 2010 I was awarded an Honorary DSc from University of Glasgow and was made an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford in 2011.