Professor Simon Hooker

Simon Hooker leads a research group working on plasma accelerators and novel sources of coherent x-rays. He is a tutorial fellow of Merton College.

Following undergraduate and graduate degrees in Oxford he moved to Stanford University before returning to Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

In 2010 he was a co-recipient of the American Physical Society's John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, and he was awarded the IOP's Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize in 2020. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Optical Society of America.

With Colin Webb, FRS he has written an undergraduate textbook on Laser Physics for Oxford University Press.