As Executive Director Science Andrew is responsible for AWE’s Scientific community. He also leads the company’s Strategic External and Industrial Outreach programmes and the International Liaison Office. He is the AWE Chief Technical Officer ensuring that the technical programme of work at AWE is strategically aligned to the mission requirements.
In October 2019 Andrew was appointed to be the interim Director of Science, Engineering and Technology and was formally confirmed in role in March 2020.
From 2016 Andrew was Head of Physics and before that, from 2013 he was AWE’s Chief Scientist in which role he assured AWE Science and Capability and led the company’s Strategic External Outreach.
For six years Andrew was also deputy Chair of the AWE Nuclear Safety Committee and the Warhead Safety Committee. He was appointed as a visiting Professor at Imperial College London in 2012. He is a Chartered Physicist, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
Andrew was appointed Head of Plasma Physics in 2011. The Department’s main role was using high power lasers to underwrite high energy density physics simulations. Andrew was Asset Manager for the ORION laser, one of the largest science capital investments in the UK, and managed several other science facilities. In the same year, Andrew became Head of Profession for Physics.
Andrew joined AWE in 1997 where he worked on physics assessment, mathematical modelling, code development and research on space and DT laser plasmas and explosives ageing.
Andrew is married and has two children.