Prof. Steve Myers
ADAM Executive Chairman
| Appointed: Nov. 2015
| Nationality: British / Irish
Skills and experience
Electronic engineer who works in high-energy physics; completed a Ph.D
at Queen's University, Belfast in 1972 before joining CERN; appointed
CERN Director of Accelerators and Technology
and Head of CERN Medical Applications; honorary member of the European
Physical Society and of the Royal Irish Academy; won the Duddell Medal
and Prize of the Institute of Physics and the International Particle
Accelerators Lifetime Achievement Prize "for his numerous outstanding
contributions to the design, construction, commissionimg, performance
optimization, and upgrade of energy-frontier colliders - in particular
ISR, LEP, and LHC - and to the wider development of accelerator
science”; jointly awarded the EPS Edison Volta Prize and the Prince of
Asturias Prize of Spain; became an Officer of the Order of the British
Empire.
Role / Responsibilities
Steve is responsible for monitoring, supervising and driving the overall technical and engineering aspects of ADAM activities, scrutinising the technical projections and targets of ADAM regularly assess performance against those targets; and reviewing technical and engineering designs with particular regard to the overall design of the accelerator.