Rate My Professor G. Burt

Burt's research focuses on particle accelerator engineering, including RF structures, high-power RF systems, and novel acceleration methods for applications in particle physics, medical radiotherapy, and security. As principal investigator, he leads projects such as the Cockcroft Core Grant 2025-2028, SAPPHIRE: Supra-African Physics Partnership for Health Innovation and Radiotherapy Expansion (2025-2027), Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA, 2024-2026), and THz frequency structures for particle accelerators (2024-2027), funded by STFC and other bodies. He has played a key role in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider upgrade at CERN as HL-LHC-UK Project Manager and UK Crab Leader. Burt chaired the Linac Conference from 2018 to 2020, served on the Science and Technology Facilities Council (2015-2018), and is a member of CERN. He has produced over 150 research outputs, including contributions to the CLIC readiness report (2026, European Physical Journal Special Topics) and papers on average-power scalability of multi-cycle terahertz sources (2025, Optics Letters) and harmonic klystron frequency converters (2025, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices). Burt received the Dean's Award for Researcher of the Year in the Professor category from Lancaster University's Faculty of Science and Technology.