Staff Profiles

Here you can find out more about the staff that work at Diamond. It takes lots of different people doing many different jobs to make a synchrotron run smoothly. Our staff profiles are categorised into three different areas.

Lorraine Bobb - Head of the Diagnostics Group

Growing up locally in West Berkshire I remember being intrigued by the “silver donut” in the Oxfordshire countryside. It wasn’t until my undergraduate MSci Physics degree at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), that I discovered Diamond Light Source and the impressive synchrotron accelerator complex within. Read more...

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 Annette Kleppe - Principal Beamline Scientist I15 

 I joined Diamond Light Source as a PDRA in 2006 from the Department of Earth   Sciences in Oxford. At that time the newly build light source represented one of the   largest investments into scientific research in the UK for the last three or four   decades. Read more...

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Matilda Stickels - Legal Counsel

I trained as a solicitor and have a Masters in Legal Practice (MLP). My university and professional backgrounds have exposed me to intellectual property and copyright law, which is what my role as Legal Counsel at Diamond is all about.  Read more...

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Jessica - Graduate Software Engineer

Computer science was the most logical thing for me to study. When I was in primary school my parents had a computer at home and I loved setting it up, installing software, and fixing anything that wasn’t working. In after school classes I enjoyed robotics and learning about binary numbers. Read more...

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