Research Profile
Prof Tim Wess
Career Profile
Administration within the School
I am Head of School and Chairman of WOPEC and all that entails……
Administration within the University
- Member of University Council
- Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor University Estates (PVC from 2011-)
- Chairman of the working group for the Cardiff Imaging Institute.
- Member of Senate.
- Member of Research Council committees forum.
- Elected Member of Academic Strategy
- Elected member of Human Resources Committee
- Member of University Communications Committee
- Member of University “Athena Swan” co-ordination Committee
- Member of University Redundancy Committee
- Co-opted Member of University Equality and Divesity Committee.
Administration at National level
- Member of the governing body University of Newport. 2009-
- Member of the Science Board Science and Technology Facilities Council. 2007-
- Science and Society fellow, research councils UK 2009-
- Chair of the Physical and Life Sciences Committee for the Science & Technology Facilities Council 2007-2009
- Chair of the Photon Science Governing Body for the New Light Source Project 2007-
- Co-Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for the 2009 International Conference of Small angle X-ray Scattering
- External Examiner for the Field of Leather Technology at The University of Northampton 2007-
- Chairman of the beam time allocation committee representing the BBSRC for beam time allocations at the Daresbury Synchrotron 2004-2007
- Chairman of the working party for design of beamline 11 for the new synchrotron source DIAMOND 2004-2007.
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Diamond Light Source 2005 – 2007.
Administration at International level
- Chair of the Environmental & Cultural Heritage beamtime award committee for the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- Advisor to Slovenian Ministry of Science
Member of RAMIRI Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures
Presentations
Invited speaker at “From Diffraction to Imaging: International Symposium on Scanning Microbeam Small- and Wide-Angle Scattering of Hierarchically Structured
Materials", Berlin, Germany (December 2006)
Plenary speaker at the International Conference on Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Engineering , Singapore (December 2006)
Speaker at the BA Festival of Science 2007 (September 2007)
Interviewed on The Naked Scientists radio programme (October 2007)
Interviewed on The Material World programme on BBC Radio 4 (April 2008)
Plenary speaker at the SR user meeting (September 2008)
Guest lecture at the University College London Centre for Sustainable Heritage (October 2008)
Cardiff University Science in Health Public Lectures – “Nanomedicine – From the submicron to the ridiculous” (January 2009)