Professor Nick Brook is Manchester Met’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, overseeing a growing research portfolio. He joined the University in 2022 after leadership roles at Bath, UCL and Bristol, returning to the city where he achieved both his first degree and PhD.

Nick is an extensively-published physicist whose research interests lie in the use of Cherenkov detectors for particle ID, Quantum Chromodynamics and high throughput computing.

He was one of the original signatories of the LHCb experiment at CERN, a 70-partner international collaboration set up to explore what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and build the Universe we inhabit today. In the lead up to the first collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, Nick was the Computing Project lead for the LHCb experiment and  was on the management board of the CERN LHC Computing Grid, the world’s largest operational computing grid.

Previous Leadership & Management roles

Dean (Faculty of Science) - University of Bath - 2016-2022
Member of Institute of Coding Governance Board - 2018-2022
Dean (Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences) - UCL - 2014-2016
Head of School of Physics - University of Bristol - 2011-2014

LHCb representative on the LCG Software and Computing Committee (CERN)  2002-2004
LHCb representative on the LCG Management Board (CERN) 2004- 2010
LHCb representative LCG Memoranda of Understanding task force16 2004
Member of UK CERN fellowship panel 2000-2003 (chair of panel for 2 years)
External member of the CERN applied fellowship panel 2004-2014 
LHCb Physics Planning Group (CERN), 2011-2012
LHCb Technical Board (CERN), 2003-2007
LHCb Collaboration Board (CERN), 1999-2011
ZEUS Collaboration Board (DESY), 1999-2004