Professor Jonathan Flynn PhD, FHEA
Professor of theoretical physics.
Jonathan Flynn is in the Theoretical Particle Physics research group, with particular interest in lattice QCD supercomputer simulations for flavour physics and wider interests in flavour physics phenomenology. He came to Southampton in 1991 after a PhD at Harvard University and postdoctoral positions at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Chicago. He has been Head of Department (2015-2019) and was previously in charge of undergraduate teaching as Director of Programmes. He has been external examiner for theoretical physics degree programmes at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin. He is a past chair of the CERN Computing Resources Scrutiny Group, scrutinising the computing requirements of the four main LHC experiments. He is also a past chair of STFC's GridPP Oversight Committee, monitoring the UK's contribution to the worldwide LHC computing grid (wLCG).