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Department Of Physics
Research Centres
- Centre for Advanced Instrumentation
- Centre for Materials Physics
- Centre for Particle Theory
- Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
- Durham Centre for Soft Matter (DCSM)
- Durham Terahertz Group
- Durham X-ray Centre
- JQC-DU/NE (Joint Quantum Centre - Durham/Newcastle
- Photonics Materials Centre
Research Groups
- Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Institute for Computational Cosmology
- XDur
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
- 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
Director of the ICC
Head of QLM
Director of XDur
Academic Staff
- Prof Charles Adams
- Prof David Alexander
- Dr. Jeppe Rosenkrantz Andersen
- Professor Del Atkinson
- Prof Carlton Baugh
- Celine Boehm
- Prof Richard Bower
- Dr Stuart Brand
- Dr Elizabeth Bromley
- Dr Anthony Brown
- Dr David Carty
- Prof Paula Chadwick
- Professor Stewart Clark
- Prof Shaun Cole
- Dr Graham Cross
- Dr Fernando Dias
- Prof Chris Done
- Dr Alastair Edge
- Dr Peter Edwards
- Dr Vincent Eke
- Prof. Suzanne Fielding
- Professor Michele Fumagalli
- Prof Simon Gardiner
- Dr Nikitas Gidopoulos
- Prof John Girkin
- Prof Nigel Glover
- Ruth Gregory
- Dr Douglas Halliday
- Prof Damian Hampshire
- Dr Qing He
- Prof Ifan Hughes
- Dr Michael Hunt
- Prof. Jeremy M. Hutson
- Prof Adrian Jenkins
- Dr Matthew Jones
- Dr Vivien Kendon
- Valentin [Valya] Khoze
- Frank Krauss
- Dr Halim Kusumaatmaja
- Prof Cedric Lacey
- Professor Tom Lancaster
- Alexander Lenz
- Dr Baojiu Li
- Professor Gordon Love
- Dr John Lucey
- Daniel Maitre
- Prof Richard Massey
- Prof Tom McLeish
- Dr Budhika Mendis
- Dr Nigel Metcalfe
- Professor Andy Monkman
- Prof Simon Morris
- Prof Richard Myers
- Dr Peder Norberg
- Silvia Pascoli
- Benjamin Pecjak
- Dr Philippa Petts
- Dr Robert Potvliege
- Peter Richardson
- Mr Jack Richings
- Prof Tim Roberts
- Dr Chris Saunter
- Prof Ray Sharples
- Professor Ian Smail
- Michael Spannowsky
- Dr Margarita Staykova
- Dr Peter Swift
- Dr Marek Szablewski
- Prof Brian Tanner
- Dr Ian Terry
- Professor Tom Theuns
- Dr Kislon Voitchovsky
- Prof Martin Ward
- Prof Kevin Weatherill
- Dr Richard Wilman
- Dr Richard Wilson
- Dr Cristina Zambon
Research Staff
- Dr Hameed Al-Attar
- Mr Yasir Altowairqi
- Peter Ballett
- Dr Alastair Basden
- Dr Nazim Bharmal
- Dr Richard Bielby
- Dr Tom Billam
- Mr Andrew Blance
- Dr. Cyril Bourgenot
- Nassim Bozorgnia
- Dr Elizabeth Bridge
- Dr Tim Butterley
- Dr Marius Constantin Cautun
- Dr Sabya Chatterjee
- Dr Elizabeth Cooke
- Dr Andrew Cooper
- Mr Juan Manuel Cruz-Martinez
- Dr Agnese Del-Moro
- Dr Colin Dunlop
- Mr Alexander Eggemeier
- Dr Xiande Feng
- Dr Matteo Fossati
- Dr L Gao
- Dr Matjaž Gomilšek
- Miss Violeta Gonzalez-perez
- Mr Philip Gregory
- Ms Madusha Gunawardhana
- Mr Jiaxin Han
- Dr Jianhua He
- Dr Ewan Hemingway
- Dr David Hoyle
- Dr Holger Israel
- Dr Mathilde Jauzac
- Valery Khoze
- Dr Jennifer King
- Dr A Kirby
- Dr Hermine Landt
- Dr Claudio Llinares
- Dr Emma Lofthouse
- Dr Lowry McComb
- Mr Graham John Murray
- Dr Mark Neyrinck
- Dr Sam Nolan
- Dr James Osborn
- Dr Danielle Pizzey
- Dr Ana Rakonjac
- Dr Andrew Reeves
- Mr Andrew Robertson
- Dr Stephen Rolt
- Dr Richard Ruiz
- Dr Aleksey Rusov
- Dr Matthieu Schaller
- Dr Jurgen Schmoll
- Holger Schulz
- Dr Mahavir Sharma
- Dr Lara Small
- Dr R Smith
- Dr Mark Swinbank
- Dr Alasdair Thomson
- Dr Alfred Tiley
- Dr Matthew Townson
- Dr Laura Young
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- James Currie
- Dr Alis Deason
- Dr Penelope Lawton
- Dr Elisabeta Lusso
- Fabian Maucher
- Dr Tim Morris
- Dr David Rosario
- Dr Alice Von-der-heydt
- Dr Julie Wardlow
Emeritus Staff
- Prof Richard Abram
- Prof David Bloor
- Prof Martyn Chamberlain
- Prof David Flower
- Alan Martin
- Dr John Osborne
- Prof Tom Shanks
- Prof F Richard Stephenson
- Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale
Visitors
- Mr Juan Leopoldo Cuspinera-Contreras
- Dr Przemyslaw Ryszard Data
- Mr Peng Jia
- Dr Yang-Shyang Li
- Dr Idit Zehavi
Administrative Staff
- Mrs J Bentham
- Mr Steven Berry
- Ms Lindsay Borrero
- Miss Penny Carse
- Mrs Clare Chadwick
- Mrs Claire Davies
- Mrs Trudy Forster
- Mrs Victoria Greener
- Mrs Linda Grieve
- Mrs Wendy Hedley
- Mrs Dorothy Jenkins
- Miss Gill Oliver
- Miss Lucinda Pigden
- Mrs Joanne Richardson
- Mr Greg Robson
- Mr Adrian Skelton
- Mrs Claire Whitehill
- Miss Heather Whitmore
- Mrs Linda Wilkinson
- Dr Clare Woodward
- Mrs Emma Worden
Computing/Engineering Staff
- Mr Leon Bowen
- Dr DG Bramall
- Dr Ariadna Calcines Rosario
- EUR ING Paul Clark
- Dr Nigel Dipper
- Dr PW Draper
- Mr CM Dubbeldam
- Dr Deli Geng
- Mr Joss Guy
- Dr EL Heck
- Dr J C Helly
- Mr Jerry Hinson
- Dr Chunyong Li
- Mr AP Lotts
- Mr G McCallum
- Mr Richard Regan
- Mr D Ryder
- Mr Benjamin Shaw
- Mr Oliver Smith
- Graeme Watt
- Mr EJ Younger
Technical Staff
- Mr Stephen Lishman
- Mr Wayne Dobby
- Dr Jason Anderson
- Mr Michael Armstrong
- Mr Lee Bainbridge
- Mr Andrew Crosby
- Mr Andrew Davies
- Mr John Dobson
- Mr Paul Foley
- Mrs Susan Hilton
- Mr Andrew Hunter
- Mr Ian Johnson
- Mr Duncan Kennedy
- Mr Duncan McCallum
- Mr Tony McFarlane
- Mr K Parkin
- Mr David Pattinson
- Dr Mark John Raine
- Mr Kevin Ring
- Mr Malcolm Robertshaw
- Mr John Francis Scott
- Mr Reece Stockport
- Mrs Lynne Wall
- Mr Kristian Whatcott
Other
Associated Staff
Research Student
- Mr Benedict Aaronson
- Miss Asli Abdullahi
- Mrs Faten Al-abdulaali
- Ms Fangxia An
- Mr Behzad Ansarinejad
- Mr Hiram Ariguznaga-castillo
- Mr Joaquin Armijo-torres
- Mr Stefan Arridge
- Mr Greg Ashworth
- Mr Sinan Azzawi
- Ms Stephanie Bartle
- Mr Benjamin Beswick
- Dr Robert Bettles
- Mr Gavin Bewick
- Mr Jacob Blackmore
- Mr Alexander Blair
- Mr Sownak Bose
- Dr Alistair Bounds
- Mr Paul Branch
- Miss Helen Brooks
- Dr Hannes Busche
- Mr Timothy Callow
- Mr Xuan Chen
- Mr William Collier
- Mr James Collinson
- Mr Mark Corrigan
- Mr Christopher Davies
- Ms Clara Despard
- Miss Paloma Lays Dos-santos
- Miss Anna Genina
- Mr Steven Gillman
- Mr David Graves
- Mr Timothy Green
- Mr Andrew Griffin
- Mr Charles Gurnham
- Mr Alexander Guttridge
- Mr John Helm
- Ms Clare Higgins
- Mr Daniel Holck
- Mr Jun Hou
- Mr Benjamin Huddart
- Ms Teodora Ilieva
- Mr Andrew Innes
- Mrs Oto-obong Inyang
- Mr Thomas Jubb
- Dr James Keaveney
- Miss Niamh Keegan
- Mr Jacob Kegerreis
- Mr Daniel King
- Mr Matthew Kirk
- Mr George Lansbury
- Mr Matteo Leo
- Mr Robin Linten
- Dr Yun Long
- Mr Amrit Lotay
- Mr Ruari Mackenzie
- Mr Stuart McAlpine
- Mr Lewis Mcard
- Mr Thomas-William McNaught-Roberts
- Mr Juan Miramontes-martinez
- Mr Charles Moehl
- Mr Ariam Mora-hernandez
- Mr Oliver Newton
- Mr Ben Nicholson
- Mr Roberto Nobuyasu
- Dr Kieran O'Brien
- Mr Piotr Oleskiewicz
- Miss Saavidra Perera
- Ms Maria Piscopo
- Mr Alexis Plascencia-Contreras
- Mr Dorian Praia-do-amaral
- Mr Francis Ridgeon
- Ms Natasha Rigby
- Dr Joshua Rogers
- Mr Jaime Salcido
- Mr Robert Schoonmaker
- Mr Darren Scott
- Mr Difu Shi
- Mr Alexander Smith
- Mr Andrew Smith
- Mr Nicholas Spong
- Mr Lee Stothert
- Mr Liam Stubbington
- Mr Sivakkumaran Sukumaran
- Mr Charles Swindells
- Mr Calvin Sykes
- Mr Mustafa Tokaç
- Mr James Trayford
- Mr William Trewby
- Mr Henry Truong
- Mr Paul Walker
- Mr Tse-chun Wang
- Mr Stephen Webster
- Mr Robert Williams
Uncategorised
- Mr Atreya Acharyya
- Mrs Nada Al-taisan
- Mr Joseph Allcock
- Mrs Latifah Alshammari
- Mrs Taghreed Alsulami
- Mr James Ashford
- Miss Ala Bahaaldin
- Dr Karis Baker
- Shankha Banerjee
- Mr Hugh Barlow
- Mr Cristian Barrera-hinojosa
- Dr Martin Bauer
- Mr Christoph Becker
- Mr Alexander Beckett
- Johannes Bellm
- Dr Alejandro Benitez-Llambay
- Ms Hongmei Bi
- Mr Thomas Birch
- Mr Jack Birkin
- Mr James Black
- Dr Elvira Bohl
- Mr Joshua Borrow
- Mr Tommaso Boschi
- Mr Adam Boutcher
- Dr Sarah Bromley
- Mr Ralph Brooks
- Mr Francesco Buciuni
- Ms Lucy Budge
- Mr Joseph Bullock
- Mr Thomas Callingham
- Mrs Linda Campbell
- Fabrizio Caola
- David G. Cerdeno
- Mr Rahul Chacko
- Gurpreet Chahal
- Mikael Chala
- Dr Nicholas Chancellor
- Mr Andrew Cheek
- Mr Simon Chislett-McDonald
- Mr Paul Clark
- Ms Madeline Close
- Mr Marco Colella
- Miss Clare Collyer
- Dr Ryan Cooke
- Ms Carolina Cuesta-lazaro
- Mr Jonathan Cullen
- Ms Aoife Curran
- Mr Thomas Cutler
- Dr Christopher Davison
- Mr Miguel De-icaza-lizaola
- Mr Giuseppe De-laurentis
- Luca Di-luzio
- Dr Sofia Dimoudi
- Dr. Celine Dinet
- Mrs Ann-marie Dixon
- Mrs Deborah Dolphin
- Miss Lucy Downes
- Mr Nicolas Dubost
- Ms Ugne Dudzeviciute
- Mr Edward Elliott
- Richard Keith Ellis
- Ms Alice Eltvedt
- Dr Marc Kenneth Etherington
- Miss Amy Etherington
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- Dr. Azadeh Fattahi
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- Mrs Wendy Gray
- Mr Jack Greenwood
- Miss Parisa Gregg
- Ramona Grober
- Mr Cameron Grove
- Dr Bitten Gullberg
- Sandeepan Gupta
- Mr William Hamlyn
- Mr Ryan Hanley
- Heribertus Hartanto
- Mr Max Harvey
- Mr Zachary Hawkhead
- Mr Qiuhan He
- Mr Marian Heil
- Mr Cesar Hernandez-aguayo
- Mr Thomas Hicken
- Mr Matthew Hill
- Mr Thomas Honey
- Mr Matheus Hostert
- Miss Rongjuan Huang
- Mr Ryan Jackson
- Mr Andrew Jackson
- Mr Thomas Jackson
- Mr Richard Jardine
- Mr David Jenkins
- Miss Helen Johnson
- Dr Graham Jones
- Dr Charles Jose
- Mr Gerhard Jung
- Mr Ashley Kelly
- Miss Niamh Kilcawley
- Mr Andreas Klein
- Miss Lizelke Klindt
- Miss Anne Klitsch
- Mr Kevin Kwok
- Mr Daniel Kynoch
- Mr Douglas Laidlaw
- Mr Jack Law
- Jonas Lindert
- Mr Simone Lionetti
- Miss Xuewen Liu
- Mr Sheridan Lloyd
- Elias Lopez-asamar
- Mr Joao Luis
- Dr Andrew Mackellar
- Mr Ra'ad Mahmoud
- Mr Prosenjit Majumder
- Dr Craig Manning
- Mr Giorgio Manzoni
- Miss Virginia Marshall
- Dr Paula Martin
- Ms Mohsenah Mashniwi
- Mr Renju Mathew
- Mr Ethan Miller
- Mr Myles Mitchell
- Mr Jake Mitchell
- Dr Misaki Mizumoto
- Mr Kristian Moffat
- Mr Ryan Moodie
- Mr Vladimir Morozov
- Dr Adel Nader
- Dr Emanuele Nardini
- Jan Niehues
- Mr James Nightingale
- Mr Oscar Ochoa-Valeriano
- Dr Nkaepe Olaniyi
- Mr Andres Olivares-del-campo
- Dr Edmund Owen
- Mr Piotr Pander
- Mr Jack Panter
- Mr Alexander Peach
- Mr Benjamin Pearce
- Dr Marianna Pepona
- Mr Daniel Pereira
- Mr Ismael Perez-marin
- Dr Luca Piantanida
- Mr Thomas Pitts
- Mr Francisco Sebastian Ponciano-Ojeda
- Mr Alan Price
- Mr Arnau Quera-Bofarull
- Miss Maura Ramirez-quezada
- Miss Apichayaporn Ratkata
- Mr Thomas Rauh
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- Mr Elliott Reid
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- Dr Alexander Richings
- Mr Joschka Roffe
- Mr Alberto Rosales-de-leon
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- Mrs Shufei Rowe
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- Ms Chloe So
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- Dr Luke Tyas
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- Mr Christos Vlahos
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- Mr Joseph Walker
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- Mr Qi Wang
- Ms Ningning Wang
- Dr Cedric Weiland
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- Mr Murray Wilson
- Dr Kali Wilson
- Miss Vanessa Woodhouse
- Dr Steven Wrathmall, S
- Miss Huizhe Yang
- Ye-ling Zhou
