Mark_Thomson_(physicist)
Mark Thomson (physicist)
British academic
Mark Thomson (born 28 April 1966) is a British particle physicist. He is a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Since January 2018, he has been the Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, one of the nine councils of UK Research and Innovation.[1] Thomson is a delegate of the United Kingdom to CERN Council,[2] the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)[3] and European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS).[4]