CURRICULUM VITAE

  NAME:     ANDREW PETER HAMMERSLEY (Dr.)

HOME ADDRESS: WORK ADDRESS:

7 Rue Honoré de Balzac, European Synchrotron

Grenoble 38100, Radiation Facility,

France BP 220, Grenoble 38043

Tel: 33-(0)476333538 France Tel: +33-(0)476882041 Fax: +33-(0)476882542 E-mail: hammersley@esrf.fr

DATE OF BIRTH: 27th July 1961 AGE: 39

MARITAL STATUS: Single SEX: Male

PLACE OF BIRTH: Bishop's Stortford, U.K. NATIONALITY: British

SECONDARY SCHOOL / UNIVERSITY ATTENDANCE

Cambridge Grammar School September 1972 - July 1974 (which became)

The Netherhall School September 1974 - July 1979

Southampton University October 1979 - July 1982

University of Birmingham October 1982 - May 1986

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Year Subject Grade

G.C.E. `O' Levels 1976 Mathematics A

1977 English Language B

English Literature C

French C

Physics A

Chemistry A

Biology B

Geography A

Additional Mathematics C

Geometric and Mechanical A Drawing

1978 Science in Society C

G.C.E. `A' Levels 1979 Physics A

Mathematics B

Chemistry B

B.Sc. Hons. 1982 Physics 2(i) (Southampton)

Ph.D. 1986 Department of Space (May 1986)

(Birmingham) Research

CAREER HISTORY

June 1987 - present European Synchrotron Scientific

Radiation Facility, Programmer/

BP 220, Grenoble 38043, Physicist France

July 1986 - June 1987 Dept. of Space Research, Post-Doctoral

University of Birmingham, Research P.O. Box 363, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

I have also had a number of part-time and temporary posts: Part-time shop assistant (Tesco Stores Ltd. Cambridge), Summer technical assistant (Goodfellow Metals, Cambridge), Censor (National Census, 1981), and Christmas Postman.

COMPUTING SKILLS

Languages: ANSI-C, Basic, Fortran (77/90/95), Java, Lisp, Occam, Pascal, Visual C++
Graphics: GKS, OpenGL, PHIGS, PostScript, Win32, X-11
Operating Systems: Compaq TRU64, DEC-Ultrix, DEC-VMS, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Linux, MS-DOS, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun SOLARIS, Windows (3.1/95/NT)
Word Processing: TEX, L^ATEX, MS-Word
Numerical Analysis: BLAS, LAPACK, Matlab, Optimisation methods, Fourier Transforms, Maximum Entropy Method, Maximum Likelihood Method, etc.
Others: CASE, HTML, POSIX.1, Structured design methodologies

LANGUAGE SKILLS

French: I have lived in France for 12 years and have a high level of spoken and written French.
Spanish: I have studied Spanish in night classes and have a basic level.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Full driving licence, Ship V.H.F. radio operator permit (French), Ship pilot licence (French)

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Student and staff supervision
Coordinator of international initiative to standardise data formats within the crystallographic community,
(Sailing Club: Responsible for windsurfing equipment and skipper on yacht cruises)

NON-ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Cycle Touring, Hill walking, Literature, Photography, Sailing/Windsurfing, (R.Y.A. Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced certificates, University Team, Yacht cruising), Tennis

PUBLICATIONS

``FIT2D: A Multi-Purpose Data Analysis and Display Program'', A. P. Hammersley, J. Appl. Cryst., In press, (2000)

``Determination of the Structure of Selenomethionine-Labelled Hydroxymethylbilane synthase in its active form by Multi-Wavelength Anomalous Dispersion'', A. Hädener, P. K. Matzinger, A. R. Battersby, S. McSweeney, A. W. Thompson, A. P. Hammersley, S. J. Harrop, A. Cassetta, A. Deacon, W. N. Hunter, Y. P. Nieh & J. R. Helliwell, Acta Cryst. D, 55, 631-643, (1999)

``A Consensus Model of Molecular Packing in Type 1 Collagen'', T. J. Wess, A. P. Hammersley, L. Wess & A. Miller, J. Structural. Biol., In press, (1999)

``FIT2D: V9.129 Reference Manual V3.1'', A. P. Hammersley, ESRF Internal Report, ESRF98HA01T, (1998)

``Molecular Packing of Type 1 Collagen in Tendon'', T. J. Wess, A. P. Hammersley, L. Wess & A. Miller, J. Mol. Biol., 275, 255-267, (1998)

``FIT2D: An Introduction and Overview'', A. P. Hammersley, ESRF Internal Report, ESRF97HA02T, (1997)

``Reducing Bias in the Analysis of counting statistics data'', A. P. Hammersley, & A. Antoniadis, Nucl. Instr. Meth., A394, 219-224, (1997)

``Monochromatic Protein Crystallography Data Collection Using an X-ray Image Intensifier/ CCD Detector'', A. P. Hammersley, K. Brown, W. Burmeister, L. Claustre, A. Gonzalez, S. McSweeney, E. Mitchell, J.-P. Moy, S. O. Svensson, & A. Thompson, J. Syn. Rad., 4, 67-77, (1997)

``Two-Dimensional Detector Software: From Real Detector to Idealised Image or Two-Theta Scan'', A. P. Hammersley, S. O. Svensson, M. Hanfland, A. N. Fitch & D. Häusermann, High Pressure Research, 14, 235-248, (1996)

``A Novel Technique for Accurate Intensity Calibration of Area X-ray Detectors at Almost Arbitrary Energy'', J.-P. Moy, A. P. Hammersley, S. O. Svensson, A. Thompson, K. Brown, L. Claustre, A. Gonzalez & S. McSweeney, J. Synchrotron Rad., 3, 1-5, (1996)

``imageNCIF: An Initiative to Standardise Image Formats'', A. P. Hammersley, CCP13 Newsletter, 4, 14-16, (1995)

``Calibration and correction of distortions in 2D detector systems'', A. P. Hammersley, S. O. Svensson, A. Thompson, H. Graafsma, Å. Kvick & J.-P. Moy, Rev. Sci. Instr., 66, 2729-2733, (1995)

``Type 1 Collagen Packing, Conformation of the Triclinic Unit Cell'', T. J. Wess, A. P. Hammersley, L. Wess & A. Miller, J. Mol. Biol., 248, 487-493, (1995)

``Calibration and correction of spatial distortions in 2D detector systems'', A. P. Hammersley, S. O. Svensson, & A. Thompson, Nucl. Instr. Meth., A346, 312-321, (1994)

``Measurements and Corrections of Spatial Distortions in Imaging Plate Systems'', S. O. Svensson, A. P. Hammersley, A. Thompson, A. Gonzalez, & T. Ursby, CCP4/EPS-EACBM Newsletter, 29, (1993)

``Reconstruction of Images from a Coded-Aperture Box Camera'', A. P. Hammersley, T. Ponman & G. K. Skinner, Nucl. Instr. Meth., A311, 585-594, (1992)

``Parallelisation of an Interactive Fitting Algorithm'', G. Berruyer & A. P. Hammersley, The CP90 Europhysics Conference on Computional Physics, 254-262, (1991)

``Efficient Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform Subroutines for Real-Valued or Hermitian Data'', A. P. Hammersley, The Computer Journal, 34, 362-370, (1991)

``Parallelisation of a 2-D Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm'', A. P. Hammersley, The CP90 Europhysics Conference on Computional Physics, 363-366, (1991)

``Synchrotron radiation investigations of the polymorphic transitions in saturated monoacid triglycerides. Part 2: Polymorhism study of a 50:50 mixture of tripalmitin and tristearin during crystallization and melting'', M. Kellens, W. Meeussen,
A. P. Hammersley & H. Reynaers, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 58, 145-148, (1991)

``MFIT: Multiple Spectra Fitting Program'', A. P. Hammersley, & C. Riekel, Syn. Rad. News, 2, 24-26, (1989)

``Error Analysis for a Noncyclic Imaging System'', T. Ponman, A. P. Hammersley & G. K. Skinner, Nucl. Instr. Meth., A262, 419-429, (1987)

``Techniques for the Analysis of Data from Coded-Mask Z-Ray Telescopes'', G. K. Skinner, T. Ponman, A. P. Hammersley & C. J. Eyles, Astrophysics and Space Science, 136, 337-349, (1987)

``The Reconstruction of Coded Mask Data Under Conditions Realistic to X-Ray Astronomy Observations'', Ph.D. Thesis, (1986)

``Data Processing of Imperfectly Coded Images'', A. P. Hammersley & G. K. Skinner, Nucl. Instr. Meth., 221, 45-48, (1984)

COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

CAREER INTERESTS AND AIMS

I am interested in continuing in the field of scientific computing. I have developed considerable experience in the many areas necessary to produce successful scientific software products and technical results (e.g. Project management, software engineering, crystallography, numerical analysis, image processing).

Ideally I would like to extend the application of these skills and my supervisory skills by coordinating a team of scientific programmers working on an interesting and challenging project.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK AT THE ESRF

I provide data reduction, analysis, and display support of the scientific experiments at a major international science institute. This has resulted in a comprehensive data analysis and display program called FIT2D. This is the most used analysis program at the ESRF and is also used by more than 180 external user groups. Information including full documentation is available at URL:

http://www.esrf.fr/computing/expg/subgroups/data_analysis/FIT2D

The main use of the program is for area data calibration and correction, integration of 2-D data to 1-D ``$2\theta$'' scans, and model fitting of 1-D and 2-D functions to experimental data. A number of papers have been published describing the algorithms.

I also coordinated a team which has successfully developed area detector calibration experimental techniques. This team developed new techniques and improved existing ones. This also involved developing data acquisition systems for test purposes. This work formed the basis of the data acquisition and calibration for crystallography at the ESRF, and has resulted in a number of published papers.

I coordinate an international group working to standardise area detector data formats within the crystallographic community (``imageCIF'').

Recently I have started to work on the problem of fast reconstruction of 3-dimensional tomography data. This has so far involved adapting standard algorithms to improve efficiency, whilst maintaining data quality, and tailoring for an optimised hardware / software configuration using a high performance modern workstation (Compaq XP1000). This is being exploited, and even faster reconstruction algorithms are now being developed.

DESCRIPTION OF POSTDOCTORAL WORK

Following the Ph.D. I continued to work at Birmingham to extend further the research and to develop ideas from the thesis work into a practical data analysis system for data from an X-ray telescope. The telescope was launched in 1987 and attached to the Russian MIR space station. The telescope is a coded mask imaging system of non-cyclic design and presents many problems of image reconstruction. The data analysis system was written in FORTRAN 77 on a VAX-11/750 running under the VMS operating system. This system was used for the reconstruction of raw telemetry data from MIR to 2-D images of the X-ray sky.

DESCRIPTION OF Ph.D. RESEARCH WORK

My research at Birmingham was concerned with the imaging properties of coded mask telescopes. Such telescopes work by encoding the observed sources as superposed shadows of a mask pattern; this is called a shadowgram. The shadowgram is recorded by a detector and this forms the data. From the data and knowledge of the mask pattern the original source distribution may be reconstructed; this is usually achieved by computer processing using fast transforms. The technique is used for imaging hard X-rays and Gamma-rays, where focusing devices are/(were) not available, and produces better signal to noise ratios than previous techniques.

My work has involved investigation of the imaging properties of different mask patterns under different conditions with the aim of finding the best mask pattern to use for a particular design of telescope. Linked to this problem various methods of reconstruction have been developed and investigated under different conditions. This has involved producing a large Monte Carlo simulation program to simulate the data formed by different designs of telescopes with various imperfections included in the data. Other programs have been produced to reconstruct the data and to analyse the results. The computing has been carried out using the SERC STARLINK computer node at Birmingham, a VAX-11 750, running under the VMS command system and the programs have been written in FORTRAN 77. In the work I collaborated with Dr. T.J. Ponman and a series of papers were published based on the thesis work.

Additionally, I have been involved in the production of a mask for a coded mask telescope experiment. This required liaising with industrial companies, and with a government research establishment, and in the programming of a computer driven photo-plotter to produce the artwork necessary for a complicated mask pattern.

MAIN SUBJECTS COVERED BY PHYSICS B.Sc. DEGREE

First Year: Basic core physics, lecture courses and practical sessions: Mechanics, Electromagnetism and Gravity, Wave behaviour and Optics, Solid state physics, Core mathematics courses: Linear Analysis and Calculus, Differential Analysis and Vector Analysis, Optional electronics course taught by the electronics department; covering basic analogue and digital electronics and including practical sessions. Computing: Introductory course in BASIC, examined by three assessed programs.

Second Year: Further core physics: Quantum mechanics, Thermal physics, Electromagnetism and Relativity, Atomic and Nuclear physics, Solid state physics, Assessed practical course, Optional Astronomy Courses: Introductory course, Radiative Processes and Detector physics

Third Year: Two term project: (See below), Optional physics course: Material science, Optional astronomy courses: Stellar evolution, Cosmology, Atmospheric physics and Planetary physics, Other options: Data processing, Numerical analysis course work in PASCAL

DESCRIPTION OF THIRD YEAR PROJECT WORK

A quarter of the third year was assessed by a two term long project undertaken concurrently with the lecture courses. Assessment was by a written report submitted at the end of the project. My project was a computing project to evaluate a new method of power spectrum analysis. For the project, I learnt Fortran and took an option in digital data processing for background to the subject. The new method was evaluated by comparison with three existing methods using artificially generated signals with known theoretical power spectra. The new method was based on the maximum entropy method of Gull and Daniell and was compared to the maximum entropy method of Burg and to two traditional methods, one using a truncated autocorrelation function and the other by the averaging of short periodograms of the data. The program was written in FORTRAN 66 and was run on the University Honeywell 6080 computer. The project was successfully completed and showed that the new method gave favourable results. Following graduation my supervisor, Dr. Daniell, and I collaborated in writing a paper of the results. (This paper has since been withdrawn from publication as the identification of a mistake in the published Burg algorithm has made much of the paper outdated.)