Deepa Angal-Kalinin is Head of the Science Division in ASTeC. She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of accelerator physics. During this time, she has contributed to the design and commissioning of several light source projects, collective effects in LHC and global design effort for International Linear Collider project.  She currently leads the CLARA project at Daresbury Laboratory including the user exploitation programme. ​​​​​​