Science Board members

Professor Neville Harnew

Professor Neville Harnew obtained his BSc from Sheffield University in 1974 and his PhD from the University of London in 1978. He became a research assistant at the University of Michigan and then a CERN Fellow before moving to the University of Oxford in 1986. Neville became Professor of Physics in 2002.

At CERN he has worked on the UA2 Experiment and in Oxford on the ZEUS and LHCb experiments. On LHCb he was the UK Principal Investigator between 1995-2004 and Project Leader for the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) system at CERN between 2004-2008. His primary LHCb physics interest is the study the origin of the CP-violation mechanism in B-hadron decays. This is one of the mechanisms thought to be responsible for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe.

Professor Harnew has served on a number of (then) PPARC and STFC Committees, including Chair of the PPESP, Deputy Chair of the PPRP, member of the Particle Physics Grants Committee and Science Committee.