Technical Director for DIAMOND appointed

Dr Richard Walker has been appointed Technical Director for the DIAMOND synchrotron project, due to be built at the CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. The appointment has been made jointly by the OST, the Wellcome Trust and the French Government. He takes up his position on 7 January 2002. Dr Walker has been employed at the Sincrotron Trieste in Italy since 1988, where he is currently Director of the Light Sources Division. Prior to his employment in Italy, Dr Walker spent 13 years in the Accelerator Physics group at Daresbury Laboratory.

Figure 1 Dr Richard Walker.