Ronan McGrath

                Ronan

                McGrath is a Professor of Physics at the University of
                Liverpool and a member of the Surface

                  Science Research Centre.

He

                earned a B.A. (Moderatorship) in Theoretical Physics
                from Trinity College Dublin in 1983, and a PhD from the
                same institution in 1988. Following a year teaching
                physics and maths at A-level in Bath, he returned to
                Trinity as a PhD student in surface physics. He spent a
                year of his PhD in the Fritz Haber
                  Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and
                graduated in 1988. He was a post-doctoral member of the
                technical staff at AT&T

                  Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill in New Jersey
                from 1988-1990, after which he was appointed to a
                Lectureship in physics at the University of Liverpool
                and progressed to be awarded a personal chair in 2004.
                His leadership experience includes the post of Head of
                the Department
                  of Physics (2008-2011), where he contributed to
                the development of the Stephenson

                  Institute for Renewable Energy.  From

                2012-2018 he served as Dean of the School
                  of Physical Sciences . The School of Physical
                Sciences comprises the departments of chemistry,
                mathematical sciences and physics, with 150 academic
                staff and an annual turnover of £40m. 
His research career initially focused on the
                properties of semiconductor surfaces as a PhD student
                with Prof. Iggy
                  McGovern. He then moved on to study the role of
                alkali metals in catalytic processes and since about
                2000 has studied quasicrystals and related complex
                metallic alloys. He has published around 145 papers and
                is a member of several international advisory boards. He
                has extensive experience of working at international
                facilities including ERSF, Brookhaven National
                  Laboratory, and Diamond,
                where he was a member of a working group for the
                construction of one of the surface physics beamlines.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a
                Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a
                member of the Council and Senate of the University of
                Liverpool. He has been a member of the Board of the Cockcroft Institute
                and  chair of the Board of the Knowledge Centre for
                Materials Chemistry. He served as a member of the
                Technical Advisory Committee of the Centre for Process
                Innovation, and is a member of the Liverpool City Region
                Science and Innovation Audit Delivery Group. He is
                secretary-general of the CMAC European Network on
                  Complex Metallic Alloys and a governor of Childwall Abbey
                  School.


	Ronan McGrath

	Ronan McGrath is a Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Surface Science Research Centre. He earned a B.A. (Moderatorship) in Theoretical Physics from Trinity College Dublin in 1983, and a PhD from the same institution in 1988. Following a year teaching physics and maths at A-level in Bath, he returned to Trinity as a PhD student in surface physics. He spent a year of his PhD in the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and graduated in 1988. He was a post-doctoral member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill in New Jersey from 1988-1990, after which he was appointed to a Lectureship in physics at the University of Liverpool and progressed to be awarded a personal chair in 2004. His leadership experience includes the post of Head of the Department of Physics (2008-2011), where he contributed to the development of the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy. From 2012-2018 he served as Dean of the School of Physical Sciences . The School of Physical Sciences comprises the departments of chemistry, mathematical sciences and physics, with 150 academic staff and an annual turnover of £40m. His research career initially focused on the properties of semiconductor surfaces as a PhD student with Prof. Iggy McGovern. He then moved on to study the role of alkali metals in catalytic processes and since about 2000 has studied quasicrystals and related complex metallic alloys. He has published around 145 papers and is a member of several international advisory boards. He has extensive experience of working at international facilities including ERSF, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Diamond, where he was a member of a working group for the construction of one of the surface physics beamlines. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Council and Senate of the University of Liverpool. He has been a member of the Board of the Cockcroft Institute and chair of the Board of the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Centre for Process Innovation, and is a member of the Liverpool City Region Science and Innovation Audit Delivery Group. He is secretary-general of the CMAC European Network on Complex Metallic Alloys and a governor of Childwall Abbey School.

Ronan McGrath

Ronan McGrath is a Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Surface Science Research Centre.