Roger Webb is Director of the UK National Ion Beam Centre which is an EPSRC National Research Facility. He is a recognised expert in the field of the interaction of energetic ion beams with surfaces. He is a founding member and chair of the international committee of the Computer Simulation of Radiation Effects in Matter conference series and he is the UK representative on the European Conference on Accelerators and Applied Research and the International Ion Beam Analysis conference series.  He has been a member on a number of IAEA advisory panels relating to ion beam interactions with materials. He is the treasurer to the Institute of Physics Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions group. He has >40 years of experience in the application and understanding of ion-solid interactions and has led the Surrey Ion Beam Centre since 2004. He has published over 230 refereed papers and book chapters (h-index 27, >2500 citations) and made more than 200 presentations at conferences and workshops worldwide. He leads research programmes advancing new methods for ion beam analysis and in the irradiation and implantation of ions in solids.