About
Simon Hooker leads a and novel sources of coherent x-rays. He is a tutorial fellow of .
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 for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, and he was awarded the IOP's 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 for Oxford University Press.
Research interests
Light-matter interactions, plasma accelerators