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I am news editor of Physics World magazine. I also contribute regularly to the website and work on the Physics World special report programme. I joined Physics World in 2008 after completing a PhD in condensed-matter physics at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. I mostly cover the development of physics facilities around the world. Outside work, over the past couple of years I have become particularly adept at changing nappies.
Italian government pulls funding for particle accelerator
Read article: Italy cancels €1bn SuperB collider
"Honeytrap" physicist jailed by court in Buenos Aires
Read article: Paul Frampton hit by 56-month drugs sentence
Government approves £70m orbiter to red planet
Read article: India set for Mars mission in 2013
New collider would study the Higgs boson
Read article: Physicists unveil plans for ‘LEP3’ collider at CERN
Russian millionaire Yuri Milner establishes the Fundamental Physics Prize