About us

The PIRATE Facility is owned and maintained by CEPSAR, The Open University. Unless noted otherwise, staff listed below are in the Department of Physical Sciences.

Contact us by email 
pirate@open.ac.uk


The PIRATE project team

Team member
Role
Ulrich Kolb
Principle Investigator
Richard Busuttil 
Software maintenance & routine operations
Jakub Bochinski
Routine operations
Carole Haswell
Data analysis techniques and scientific exploitation
Vadim Burwitz (MPE Garching, and OAM) Hardware
Juan Rodriguez (OAM) OAM liaison and maintennace
Stefan Holmes Software consultant


Past team members   

Summer students
Shripathi Hadigal (ISU Strasbourg)
Samantha Rolfe (Leicester, now OU)
John Rostron (St. Andrews, now Warwick)

OU affiliates
John Barker (University Centre, Blackburn College)
Karl Wraight (OU)
Vanessa Stroud

OU staff
Rob Lucas (software developer)



Acknowledgements

The PIRATE project gratefully acknowledges the support by the dedicated OAM staff without whom the successful operations would be impossible. We thank all PIRATE expert users, past and present, who made important contributions to the commissioning and maintenance of the facility.

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