Welcome to the JAI!
Professor Alexander Gerbershagen to join the John Adams Institute, University of Oxford
Prof. Alexander Gerbershagen
Professor Alexander Gerbershagen, currently Head of the Particle Therapy Research Center at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, will be joining the JAI at the University of Oxford from January 2026.
Prof. Philip Burrows, JAI Director said:
It is an honour and a pleasure to announce that Prof. Gerbershagen will join the JAI faculty in Oxford. He is a world-leader in the field and will significantly strengthen our research programmes in advanced beamlines for medical applications. We look forward to welcoming Alex in Oxford in early 2026.
Alexander Gerbershagen has a master’s degree in mathematical physics from University of Cambridge and a DPhil in particle physics from the University of Oxford and JAI. He has worked at CERN on the beamline design of a future electron-positron collider CLIC, and later at Paul Scherrer Institute on the development of the proton therapy facility PROSCAN. Later, he joined CERN as a staff beam physicist, where he has been responsible for the operation of beamlines for fixed target experiments and test beams, while contributing to a number of particle therapy projects, such as VHEE-FLASH and GaToroid. Since 2022 he has been serving as the Head of the Particle Therapy Research Center at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, working on particle therapy accelerators, diagnostics and isotope production.
