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Department Of Physics
Research Centres
- Centre for Advanced Instrumentation
- Centre for Materials Physics
- Centre for Particle Theory
- Centre for Polymer & Soft Matter Research
- Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
- Durham Terahertz Group
- Durham X-ray Centre
- JQC-DU/NE (Joint Quantum Centre - Durham/Newcastle
- Photonics Materials Centre
Research Groups
Advanced Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Applied Historical Astronomy
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Gamma Ray Astronomy
- High Energy Astrophysics
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Particle Physics
Research Expertise
- Adaptive optics
- Astronomical spectroscopy
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- Electroweak interactions
- Hadron spectroscopy
- Higgs Boson studies
- Infrared instruments
- Large optical/infrared telescopes
- Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms
- Particle physics database
- Particle physics phenomenology
- Parton distributions
- Quantum chromodynamics
- Rearrangement collisions
- Relation to early universe
- Rotational and vibrational excitation
- Supersymmetry and duality
Research Facilities
- Supercomputing cluster of 18 IBM 355 workstations with parallel
- Computing environment
- A Hewlett-Packard (HP) Unix cluster of 1 HP720, 9 HP710 and 3 HP712/80
- Workstations, together with 10 HP-xterminals, with internet access to
- The outside world
- A VAX/UMS cluster of 4 VAX stations with decnet and internet access to
- Starlink computer node: SUN and VMS clusters
- DEC station 5000 and GRAPE machine for cosmological simulations
- Workshop capable of designing and building equipment from the very large
- To the very fine
- Electronics workshop
- Microprocessor Centre for the design and construction in all aspects of
- Microprocessing
- Imaging polarimeter/CCD system
- Access to leading international research telescopes
- 13 Tesla superconductivity solenoid with variable temperature access
- From 300mK-300K
- 17 Tesla, 40mm bore super-conducting magnet for magnetic transport and
- Heat capacity measurements from 2K to room temperature
- 2 vibrating sample magnetometers
- Faraday balance
- Torque magnetometers
- 2 Tesla electromagnets
- Grazing incidence X-ray reflectometer
- High resolution double and triple axis X-ray diffractometers
- Extensive electrochemistry facilities
- Facilities to produce and process conductive polymers
- Facilities to make a wide range of electrical transport measurements
- Steady state photo-induced spectrometer based around an Ar+ ion laser
- And dye laser
- Femtosecond laser oscillator and amplifier using a Titanium Sapphire 30
- F.sec. self mode locked
- Oscillator, plus CW pumped Ti : Sapphire amplifier
- Nd:YAG laser and instrumentation for measurement of optical
- Non-linearities
- CO laser, CO2 lasers
- Apparatus for characterisation of optical waveguides
- Facilities to do photo luminescence, photoluminescence excitation,
- Spectroscopy, photoconductivity between 4K and 300K
- Electroabsorption spectrometer - spectral range 0.4eV-5eV,
- Operating-field 0-10KHz @ 0-10KV
- Chemistry laboratory
- Clean room
- Transmission and scanning electron microscope
- LC bridge and Q-meter instrumentation
Staff
Academic Staff
- Prof Richard Abram
- Prof Charles Adams
- Prof David Alexander
- Dr Jeremy Allington-Smith
- Dr Jeppe Rosenkrantz Andersen
- Dr Del Atkinson
- Prof Carlton Baugh
- Dr Tom Beale
- Dr Celine Boehm
- Prof Richard Bower
- Dr Stuart Brand
- Dr Elizabeth Bromley
- Dr David Carty
- Dr Paula Chadwick
- Professor Stewart Clark
- Prof Shaun Cole
- Dr Simon Cornish
- Dr Graham Cross
- Prof Chris Done
- Dr Claude Duhr
- Dr Alastair Edge
- Dr Peter Edwards
- Dr Vincent Eke
- Dr Suzanne Fielding
- Dr Sebastian Franco
- Prof Carlos Frenk
- Dr Simon Gardiner
- Dr Nikitas Gidopoulos
- Prof John Girkin
- Prof Nigel Glover
- Prof Ruth Gregory
- Dr Douglas Halliday
- Prof Damian Hampshire
- Prof Peter Hatton
- Prof Ifan Hughes
- Dr Michael Hunt
- Prof. Jeremy M. Hutson
- Dr Adrian Jenkins
- Dr Matthew Jones
- Prof Valentin [Valya] Khoze
- Dr Frank Krauss
- Dr Halim Kusumaatmaja
- Dr Cedric Lacey
- Dr Tom Lancaster
- Dr Alexander Lenz
- Prof Gordon Love
- Dr John Lucey
- Dr Daniel Maitre
- Dr Chris Maxwell
- Prof Tom McLeish
- Dr Budhika Mendis
- Dr Nigel Metcalfe
- Professor Andy Monkman
- Prof Simon Morris
- Prof Richard Myers
- Prof Silvia Pascoli
- Dr Benjamin Pecjak
- Dr Philippa Petts
- Dr Robert Potvliege
- Dr Peter Richardson
- Dr Tim Roberts
- Dr Chris Saunter
- Prof Tom Shanks
- Prof Ray Sharples
- Dr Adrian Signer
- Professor Ian Smail
- Dr Michael Spannowsky
- Dr Peter Swift
- Dr Marek Szablewski
- Prof Brian Tanner
- Dr Ian Terry
- Dr Tom Theuns
- Prof Martin Ward
- Dr Kevin Weatherill
- Dr Richard Wilman
- Dr Richard Wilson
- Dr Cristina Zambon
Research Staff
- Mr Khalid Abdullah
- Dr James Aird
- Dr Hameed Al-Attar
- Dr Pablo Arnalte-Mur
- Dr Alastair Basden
- Dr Nazim Bharmal
- Dr Richard Bielby
- Dr Urban Bitenc
- Ms Kim-Kristin Buttenschoen
- Dr Tim Butterley
- Dr Yanchuan Cai
- Mr James Collinson
- Dr Michael Daniel
- Dr Pierre-philippe Dechant
- Dr Agnese Del-Moro
- Dr Fernando Dias
- Mr Matthew Dolan
- Dr Colin Dunlop
- Dr Christoph Englert
- Mr Joseph Findlay
- Dr Poshak Gandhi
- Dr L Gao
- Mr Lucian Harland-lang
- Dr Wojciech Hellwing
- Dr J C Helly
- Dr Paul Heslop
- Dr Hendrik Hoeth
- Dr Stephen Hopkins
- Dr David Hoyle
- Dr Vygintas Jankus
- Dr Alexander Karim
- Dr Aglaé Kellerer
- Prof Valery Khoze
- Dr Jennifer King
- Dr Yusei Koyama
- Dr Ulrich Krohn
- Dr Hermine Landt
- Dr Baojiu Li
- Dr Ben Lowing
- Dr Christoph Luhn
- Dr Alberto Mariotti
- Dr Simone Marzani
- Dr Peter Mason
- Dr Richard Massey
- Dr Ricard Matas-navarro
- Mr Christopher Mccabe
- Dr Lowry McComb
- Dr Matthew Middleton
- Dr Manimala Mitra
- Dr Tim Morris
- Mr James Mullaney
- Dr GJ Murray
- Dr Sam Nolan
- Dr Peder Norberg
- Dr James Osborn
- Dr Yan Qu
- Dr Emanuele Re
- Prof David John Robertson
- Dr Stephen Rolt
- Mr Richard Rowan-robinson
- Mr Sebastian Sapeta
- Mr Till Sawala
- Dr Jurgen Schmoll
- Dr Marek Schoenherr
- Dr Vimal Simha
- Dr R Smith
- Dr John Stott
- Dr Mark Swinbank
- Dr David Szwer
- Dr JM Taylor
- Dr Aidan Taylor
- Dr Yeekin Tsui
- Dr Paul Tulip
- Dr LMG Tyas
- Dr Jie Wang
- Dr Lingyu Wang
- Dr Christoph Weiss
- Dr Jo Woodward
- Dr Fan Xiao
- Mrs Korinna Christine Zapp
Emeritus Staff
- Prof David Bloor
- Prof Martyn Chamberlain
- Prof David Flower
- Dr R Fong
- Prof Alan Martin
- Dr John Osborne
- Prof F Richard Stephenson
- Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale
Visitors
Administrative Staff
- Mrs J Bentham
- Ms Lindsay Borrero
- Miss Penny Carse
- Mrs Clare Chadwick
- Miss Ashley Crosby
- Miss Helen Dabill
- Mrs Claire Davies
- Mrs Trudy Forster
- Mrs Wendy Hedley
- Mrs Dorothy Jenkins
- Miss Natalie Kennedy
- Miss Gill Oliver
- Mrs Joanne Richardson
- Mr Greg Robson
- Mrs Sabine Schindler
- Mr Adrian Skelton
- Mrs Claire Whitehill
- Mrs Linda Wilkinson
- Dr Clare Woodward
Computing/Engineering Staff
- Mr Leon Bowen
- Dr DG Bramall
- EUR ING Paul Clark
- Dr Nigel Dipper
- Dr PW Draper
- Mr CM Dubbeldam
- Dr D Grellscheid
- Dr EL Heck
- Mr Jerry Hinson
- Mr T Jackson
- Mr Michael Johnson
- Mr AP Lotts
- Mr G McCallum
- Mr D Ryder
- Mr Mark Short
- Mr Robert Talbot
- Dr MR Whalley
- Mr EJ Younger
Technical Staff
- Mr Stephen Lishman
- Mr Wayne Dobby
- Mr David Allan
- Mr Lee Bainbridge
- Mr John Bate
- Mr Steven Berry
- Mr Michael Clarey
- Mr Stephen Clifford
- Mr Andrew Crosby
- Mr Andrew Davies
- Mrs Andrea Dawson
- Mr John Dobson
- Mr Paul Foley
- Mrs Victoria Greener
- Mrs Susan Hilton
- Mr Andrew Hunter
- Mr Ian Johnson
- Mr Ian Manfren
- Mr Michael Mcbreen
- Mr Duncan McCallum
- Mr K Parkin
- Mr David Pattinson
- Mr Matthew Plumb
- Mr Mark Raine
- Mr Kevin Ring
- Mr Malcolm Robertshaw
- Ms Emily Roe
- Mr John Francis Scott
- Mr Reece Stockport
- Mr John Summerill
- Mr Norman Thompson
- Mrs Lynne Wall
- Mr Kristian Whatcott
Research Student
- Mr Daniel Adams
- Mrs Faten Al-abdulaali
- Mr Saleh Alluqmani
- Mr Simon Armstrong
- Mr Thomas Armstrong
- Mr Murat Aydemir
- Miss Shangkari Balenderan
- Mr Peter Ballett
- Mr Alexandre Barreira
- Mr Robert Bettles
- Miss Danielle Boddy
- Mr Cyril Bourgenot
- Ms Elizabeth Bridge
- Mr Kai Brunner
- Mr David Burn
- Mr Daniel Busbridge
- Mr Hannes Busche
- Miss Kirsteen Butler
- Mr Peter Byrne
- Mr Asahi Cano-marques
- Mr Christopher Carr
- Mr Ben Carrick
- Mr Matthew Cashmore
- Mr Ben Chehade
- Mr Xuan Chen
- Miss Joanne Chorley
- Mr Javan Cook
- Mr William Cowley
- Miss Alice Danielson
- Mr Jonathan Davis
- Mr Philip Dean
- Miss Sarah Dempsey
- Mr Daniel Farrow
- Mr Charles Finn
- Miss Dora Fohring
- Mr Thomas Frawley
- Ms Michelle Furlong
- Mr Daniele Galloni
- Ms Emma Gardner
- Mr Gareth Griffiths
- Mr Quan Guo
- Mr Oliver Hall
- Mr Jonathan Harris
- Mr Robert Harris
- Mr Christopher Harrison
- Mr Jacob Head
- Mr John Helm
- Mr Ewan Hemingway
- Mr Michael Hogan
- Mr David Holdaway
- Mr Thomas Hollins
- Miss Katherine Howarth
- Mr Billy Huang
- Mr Ivan Iorsh
- Miss Lilian Jiang
- Mr Owen Jones
- Mr Dariush Kaviani
- Mr James Keaveney
- Mr Stefan Kemp
- Miss Rachel Kennedy
- Mr Michael Koppinger
- Mr George Lansbury
- Ms Penelope Lawton
- Miss Rachael Livermore
- Mr Bartosz Lomanowski
- Mr Mark Lovell
- Mr Wasutep Luangtip
- Miss Anna Marchant
- Miss Eirini Mavroudi
- Mr Daniel Maxwell
- Mrs Tamsyn Mcnaught-Roberts
- Mr Mogtaba Mekki
- Mr Junad Miah
- Mr Thomas Mitchell
- Mr Peter Mitchell
- Miss Arin Mizouri
- Mr Peter Molony
- Miss Robyn Moorcroft
- Mr Thomas Morgan
- Mr David Nandi
- Mr Nikolaos Nikoloudakis
- Mr Thomas Ogden
- Mr Andrew Papanastasiou
- Mr David Paredes
- Mr Jared Parnell
- Mr Robert Perry
- Mr Petar Petrov
- Mr Andrew Reeves
- Mr Gunnar Ro
- Mr Mark Rodgers
- Miss Yetli Rosas-Guevara
- Mr Mark Ross-lonergan
- Mr Sabyasachi Roy
- Mr Cameron Rulten
- Mr Daniel Sadler
- Mr Matthieu Schaller
- Mr Jascha Schewtschenko
- Mr Fraser Scobie
- Mr Harry Shepherd
- Mr Difu Shi
- Miss Ellen Shum
- Mr Scott Silburn
- Mr James Simpson
- Miss Lara Small
- Ms Flora Stanley
- Mr Musaab Sultan
- Miss P Sunwong
- Mr Andrew Sutton
- Mr Nicolas Tejos
- Mr Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-xolocotz
- Ms Jennifer Thompson
- Mr Mustafa Tokac
- Mr Matthew Townson
- Miss P Tummuangpak
- Mr Christophe Vaillant
- Mr Christopher Wade
- Mr Christopher Wallace
- Miss Guanmei Wang
- Mr Alexander Webb
- Mr Lee Weller
- Mr Steven Wells
- Mr George Wells
- Mr Joseph Whitbourn
- Miss Kate Whittaker
- Miss Alexandra Wilcock
- Mr Timothy Wiles
- Mr Ryan Wilkinson
- Mr Robert Williams
- Mr Jack Wilson
- Mr David Winn
- Mr CF Wong
- Mr Christopher Wymant
- Mr Wing Yip
- Mr Manfred Yu
- Mr Mark Zentile