Chairs for new STFC Advisory Panels

STFC has appointed the five new Chairs of the Advisory Panels to the Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics (PPAN) Science Committee. The Advisory Panels have been set up to develop and maintain research roadmaps in their areas and to act as two way conduits of communication between STFC, PPAN and the research communities.

The five Advisory Panels and their Chairs are as follows:

• Particle Physics Advisory Panel (PPAP)
  Chair - Professor Philip Burrows, University of Oxford
  
  
• Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel (NPAP)
  Chair - Professor Martin Freer, University of Birmingham
  
  
• Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel (PAAP)
  Chair - Professor Philip Mauskopf, Cardiff University
  
  
• Near Universe Advisory Panel (NUAP) - covering those parts of the astronomy and space science programmes concerned with the sun, solar system and the properties of objects within our galaxy
  Chair - Professor Michele Dougherty, Imperial College
  
  
• Far Universe Advisory Panel (FUAP) - covering those parts of the astronomy and space science programmes concerned with the global properties of our galaxy, with objects beyond our galaxy, and with cosmology
  Chair - Professor Bob Nichol, University of Portsmouth

STFC is in the process of appointing the other panel members and the full membership will be published in due course. View the Advisory Panels' draft terms of reference.