Richard is Head of Chemical Crystallography at Oxford. His main research interests are development and application of computational methods to crystallographic refinement problems. He completed a DPhil in Crystallographic Computing in the research group of Dr David Watkin and held posts in academic research and industry before returing to Oxford in 2010. Richard is responsible for the development and distribution of the crystallographic analysis software CRYSTALS.

Bill completed an undergraduate degree and PhD in Cambridge, then 5 years in a fixed-term position in Newcastle before moving to Göttingen in Germany for 6 years, where he developed a particular interest in data collection methods. Since then he's been in Newcastle and formally retired early as Professor of Structural Crystallography in 2009; he continues with research activities for about 2 days per week, combining this with serving as the University's Baptist Chaplain and lots of things outside work. Recent research has included synthetic work in s-block metal coordination and supramolecular chemistry as well as a wide range of structure determination in collaboration with many other groups. Bill led the project to construct station 9.8 at Daresbury, where his group ran the synchrotron component of the EPSRC-funded National Crystallography Service, and he is a major user of beamline I19 at Diamond, including leading a Newcastle/Durham regional team. Bill is Chairman of the Diamond User Committee and a member of the ECA Council, was one of the Section Editors of Acta Crystallographica Section E from when it started in 2001 until 2008, and has been a member of the teaching team of every BCA/CCG Intensive School, in which he's taught most of the topics at some stage.

Lukas is a crystallographer by education. He is interested in the solution of the phase problem by iterative dual-space methods, and is developing software for structure solution based on these methods, especially involving the charge-flipping algorithm. His main research topic is currently the application of electron diffraction to the solution and refinement of crystalu structures. His specific interest is incommensurately modulated structures. Lukas has been awarded the Lewy Bertaut prize 2009 for his significant contribution to the solution of the phase problem in crystallography.

Simon is a Professor of Crystallography working as part of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions in Edinburgh (CSEC). Research in his group focuses on polymorphism in simple molecular solids; the effects of very high pressures on molecular systems; twinning and absolute structure determination. Pressures up to 100 kbar are an extremely powerful tool for studying phase transitions in simple organic systems, and he is currently trying to tune magnetism using pressure. Simon also has an interest in crystal growth from liquids and gases. As Scientific Director of the Intensive School, he is responsible for organising its content

Devinder research interests revolve around the application of Bayesian probability theory to all sorts of data analysis problems, mainly in the physical sciences. He has published a tutorial book on the subject: "Data Analysis - a Bayesian tutorial" (1996, Second Edition 2006, OUP). In addition, he has been teaching "Maths for Natural Sciences" to Chemistry and Physics undergraduates for a number of years and has published two slim tutorial volumes in the Oxford Chemistry Primers series on the "Foundations of Science Mathematics" (1999, OUP).

Judith began her scientific career with an Honours Degree from Bristol University and then she moved to Oxford where she studied with Nobel Prize winner, Dorothy Hodgkin, OM. Judith received her D.Phil from Oxford University in Chemical Crystallography using neutron diffraction techniques and returned to Bristol asa Research Fellow. Among her current projects in collaboration with colleagues in Oxford, her team is developing new, moderm crystallographic software. In Durham, she is also developing advanced X-ray diffraction instrumentation for studying materials at very low temperatures combined with high pressures, enabling researchers to explore structure-property relationships of new 'smart' materials and to begin to explore dynamics in the solid state. Judith has been involved with the BCA school since its inception and remains a vocal supporter of young people in science.

Hazel completed her undergraduate degree (2002) and PhD (2005) in Chemistry at the University of Bath, she then moved to Durham to do a PDRA working for Professor Howard. She attended the school in 2003 and she is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow researching solid-state phenomena including photo-induced solid-state [2+2] cycloaddition reactions, thermochromism and photochromism. She also carries out charge density studies into the bonding and atomic interactions in both organic small molecules and organometallic complexes. She was awarded the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists in 2009 and is currently the chair of the CCG.