Rate My Professor G. Burt

Graeme Burt is Professor of Particle Accelerator Engineering in the School of Engineering at Lancaster University. He received the B.Sc. (Honours) degree in Physics from the University of Strathclyde in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the same institution in 2004. He began his career at Lancaster University as a Research Associate in the Cockcroft Institute and advanced through positions as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering before becoming Professor. Burt also serves as Associate Director at Security Lancaster and Academic at the Cockcroft Institute. He leads the RF Engineering of Accelerators at Lancaster (REAL) research group and is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Burt's research focuses on particle accelerator engineering, including RF structures, high-power RF systems, and novel acceleration methods for applications in particle physics, medical radiotherapy, and security. As principal investigator, he leads projects such as the Cockcroft Core Grant 2025-2028, SAPPHIRE: Supra-African Physics Partnership for Health Innovation and Radiotherapy Expansion (2025-2027), Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA, 2024-2026), and THz frequency structures for particle accelerators (2024-2027), funded by STFC and other bodies. He has played a key role in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider upgrade at CERN as HL-LHC-UK Project Manager and UK Crab Leader. Burt chaired the Linac Conference from 2018 to 2020, served on the Science and Technology Facilities Council (2015-2018), and is a member of CERN. He has produced over 150 research outputs, including contributions to the CLIC readiness report (2026, European Physical Journal Special Topics) and papers on average-power scalability of multi-cycle terahertz sources (2025, Optics Letters) and harmonic klystron frequency converters (2025, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices). Burt received the Dean's Award for Researcher of the Year in the Professor category from Lancaster University's Faculty of Science and Technology.