Andy Parker is a Professor of High Energy Physics at Cambridge University, with over 160 publications on aspects of particle physics. His current research interests involve experiments to reveal new physics in the Tera-electron-volt energy regime. He is a founder of the ATLAS experiment for the Large Hadron Collider, and for 6 years he was the project leader for the ATLAS Inner Detector, the most complex detector system so far created at CERN. He is also involved in large-scale distributed computing grids, used for various scientific projects. He was awarded the Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in 1997.