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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
Departmental Administration
Director of the ICC
Director of XDur
Director of Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Director of the CEA
Academic Staff
- Prof Charles Adams
- Prof Adekunle Adeyeye
- Dr Rodrigo Alonso-de-pablo
- Dr Nicola Amorisco
- Dr. Jeppe Rosenkrantz Andersen
- Professor Del Atkinson
- Dr Anders Aufderhorst-roberts
- Prof Carlton Baugh
- Prof Richard Bower
- Dr Nicholas Bristowe
- Dr Elizabeth Bromley
- Dr David Carty
- Francesca Chadha-day
- Prof Paula Chadwick
- Professor Stewart Clark
- Prof Simon Cornish
- Associate Professor Fernando Dias
- Prof Chris Done
- Professor Alastair Edge
- Dr Peter Edwards
- Dr Vincent Eke
- Richard Keith Ellis
- Prof. Suzanne Fielding
- Prof Carlos Frenk
- Professor Michele Fumagalli
- Professor Simon Gardiner
- Dr Nikitas Gidopoulos
- Prof John Girkin
- Prof Nigel Glover
- Ruth Gregory
- Prof Damian Hampshire
- Dr Qing He
- Dr Lucien Heurtier
- Prof Ifan Hughes
- Dr Michael Hunt
- Prof. Jeremy M. Hutson
- Prof Adrian Jenkins
- Prof. Matthew Jones
- Dr Viv Kendon
- Valentin [Valya] Khoze
- Frank Krauss
- Prof Halim Kusumaatmaja
- Prof Cedric Lacey
- Professor Tom Lancaster
- Alexander Lenz
- Prof Baojiu Li
- Professor Gordon Love
- Dr John Lucey
- Daniel Maitre
- Prof Richard Massey
- Dr Anna McLeod
- Dr Budhika Mendis
- Dr Nigel Metcalfe
- Professor Andy Monkman
- Prof Simon Morris
- Dr Peder Norberg
- Dr Kieran O'Brien
- Silvia Pascoli
- Benjamin Pecjak
- Dr Philippa Petts
- Dr Robert Potvliege
- Peter Richardson
- Prof Tim Roberts
- Dr Chris Saunter
- Dr Simone Scaringi
- Prof Ray Sharples
- Professor Ian Smail
- Prof. Margarita Staykova
- Dr John Patrick Stowell
- Dr Peter Swift
- Professor Mark Swinbank
- Dr Marek Szablewski
- Dr Ian Terry
- Professor Tom Theuns
- Dr Elsen Tjhung
- Jessica Turner
- Prof Kislon Voitchovsky
- Prof Martin Ward
- Prof. Kevin Weatherill
- Dr Richard Wilman
- Dr Richard Wilson
- Dr Cristina Zambon
Research Staff
- Dr Qaisar Abbas
- Dr Diana Alvarez-ruiz
- Mr. Toonyawat Angkhanawin
- Dr Christian Arnold
- Dr Lisa Bardou
- Dr Alastair Basden
- Dr Alejandro Benitez-Llambay
- Dr Nazim Bharmal
- Mr Andrew Blance
- Dr Elvira Bohl
- Dr Alistair Bounds
- Dr. Cyril Bourgenot
- Dr Elizabeth Bridge
- Dr Anthony Brown
- Dr Tim Butterley
- Dr Marius Constantin Cautun
- Dr Sabya Chatterjee
- Dr Jie Chen
- Miss Ting-yu Cheng
- Dr Ryan Cooke
- Dr Jorge De-blas-mateo
- Dr Alis Deason
- Dr Matteo T. Degiacomi
- Mr Rishi Deshmukh
- Dr Sofia Dimoudi
- Dr Alexander Eggemeier
- Dr. Azadeh Fattahi
- Dr Xiande Feng
- Dr Laurence Fitzpatrick
- Mr. Hugo Fortin
- Dr Matteo Fossati
- Dr L Gao
- Dr Matjaž Gomilšek
- Dr Stephen Goodsell
- Mr Philip Gregory
- Dr Bitten Gullberg
- Mr Alastair Harrison
- Dr David Hoyle
- Dr Lina Hoyos-campo
- Mr Benjamin Huddart
- Dr Mathilde Jauzac
- Valery Khoze
- Dr A Kirby
- Mr Suman Kuila
- Dr Nadzeya Kukhta
- Dr. Hermine Landt
- Dr Penelope Lawton
- Mr David Little
- Mr Mattia Lizzo
- Dr Emma Lofthouse
- Dr Mark Lovell
- Dr Elisabeta Lusso
- Dr Guillaume Mahler
- Mr. Samuel Moore
- Dr Tim Morris
- Dr Graham John Murray
- Dr Anna Niemiec
- Dr James Nightingale
- Professor Sam Nolan
- Dr James Osborn
- Mr. Jack Parker
- Dr Danielle Pizzey
- Dr Mark John Raine
- Dr Ana Rakonjac
- Dr Venkata Krishnan Ramaswamy
- Dr Alexander Richings
- Dr Andrew Robertson
- Dr David Rosario
- Dr Cameron Rulten
- Dr Matthieu Schaller
- Mr Sebastian Schenk
- Dr Jurgen Schmoll
- Dr Shi Shao
- Dr Lara Small
- Dr Russell Smith
- Mr Kleitos Stavrou
- Dr Lazar Staykov
- Dr Alasdair Thomson
- Dr Alfred Tiley
- Dr Matthew Townson
- Dr Luke Tyas
- Dr Yannick Ulrich
- Dr Arti Yadav
- Dr Laura Young
- Dr Pauline Zarrouk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Mr Chantif Alampounti
- Mr Aristeidis Amvrosiadis
- Dr Jack Araz
- Mr. Benjamin Cartwright
- Mr. Anton Charman
- Mr. Jack Griffiths
- Mr. Charles Haddon
- Mr. Robert Heighton
- Mr. Alberto Hernandez-melian
- Mr. Edwin Herrera-chacon
- Dr Rachel Houtz
- Miss Shiqian Hu
- Mr Sebastian Jaskiewicz
- Mr. Peter Meinzinger
- Mr. James Petley
- Mr. Guillaume Rostagni
- Mr. Daniel Ruttley
- Miss Hannah Turner
- Dr Alice Von-der-heydt
Teaching Staff
Emeritus Staff
- Prof Richard Abram
- Prof David Bloor
- Prof Martyn Chamberlain
- Prof David Flower
- Alan Martin
- Emeritus Professor Richard Myers
- Dr John Osborne
- Prof Tom Shanks
- Prof F Richard Stephenson
- Prof Brian Tanner
- Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale
Associate Staff
- Mr Joshua Brown
- Mr Dimitrios Charlaftis
- Miss Arshpreet Dhatt
- Mr Allen Drews
- Miss Annabelle Foster
- Miss Megan Green
- Mr Paul Kerner
- Dr Martin Mangler
- Mr Yilin Wang
Visitors
Administrative Staff
- Mr Adrian Skelton
- Mrs Suzanne Joyce
- Mrs J Bentham
- Ms Lindsay Borrero
- Miss Penny Carse
- Mrs Clare Chadwick
- Mrs Claire Davies
- Mrs Trudy Forster
- Mrs Wendy Hedley
- Mrs Dorothy Jenkins
- Mrs Joanne Richardson
- Mrs Shufei Rowe
- Mrs Claire Whitehill
- Mrs Linda Wilkinson
Computing/Engineering Staff
- Mr Leon Bowen
- Dr DG Bramall
- Dr Christopher Davison
- Dr Nigel Dipper
- Dr Peter W. Draper
- Mr CM Dubbeldam
- Miss Shannon Fletcher
- Mr Warrand Francis
- Dr Deli Geng
- Mr Joss Guy
- Dr EL Heck
- Dr J C Helly
- Mr Jerry Hinson
- Dr Graham Jones
- Dr Chunyong Li
- Mr AP Lotts
- Mr G McCallum
- Mr Richard Regan
- Mr D Ryder
- Mr Benjamin Shaw
- Graeme Watt
- Mr Aleksander Wawrzynczak
- Mr James Willis
- Mr EJ Younger
Technical Staff
- Mr Greg Robson
- Mr Stephen Lishman
- Mr Wayne Dobby
- Dr Jason Anderson
- Mr Michael Armstrong
- Mr Lee Bainbridge
- Mr Steven Berry
- Mr Gary Birchall
- Dr Robert Borthwick
- Mr Andrew Davies
- Mr John Dobson
- Mr Paul Foley
- Mrs Victoria Greener
- Mrs Kathryn Hall
- Mrs Susan Hilton
- Mr Andrew Hunter
- Mr Ian Johnson
- Mr Duncan McCallum
- Mr Tony McFarlane
- Miss Michelle Minns
- Mr K Parkin
- Mr David Pattinson
- Mr Robert Platt
- Mr Kevin Ring
- Mr Malcolm Robertshaw
- Mrs Lynne Wall
- Mr Kristian Whatcott
Other
Associated Staff
Research Student
- Miss Asli Abdullahi
- Mr Atreya Acharyya
- Ms Faten Alabdulaali
- Mr. Faisal Alayed
- Mr Joseph Allcock
- Mr Asaad Alluhaybi
- Miss Carolina Andonie
- Mr Behzad Ansarinejad
- Mr Hiram Ariguznaga-castillo
- Mr Joaquin Armijo-torres
- Mr Oluwafemi Aro
- Mr Stefan Arridge
- Mr Cristian Barrera-hinojosa
- Miss Ana Beaumont
- Mr Christoph Becker
- Mr Alexander Beckett
- Mr Benjamin Beswick
- Dr Robert Bettles
- Mr Gavin Bewick
- Mr Jack Birkin
- Mr Jacob Blackmore
- Mr Alexander Blair
- Mr Joshua Borrow
- Mr Thomas Callingham
- Mr Timothy Callow
- Ms. Catherine Cerny
- Mr Raymond Christianto
- Mr William Collier
- Mr Mark Corrigan
- Ms Carolina Cuesta-lazaro
- Ms Aoife Curran
- Mr Christopher Davies
- Mr Miguel De-icaza-lizaola
- Ms Clara Despard
- Mr Brad Din
- Mr Nicolas Dubost
- Ms Ugne Dudzeviciute
- Mr Willem Elbers
- Mr Edward Elliott
- Ms Alice Eltvedt
- Miss Sofie Erner
- Miss Amy Etherington
- Mr Oliver Farley
- Miss Victoria Fawcett
- Mr. Luke Fernley
- Miss Abigail Finch
- Miss Lois Flower
- Mr. Matteo Fratta
- Miss Anna Genina
- Mr. Adam Gerrand
- Miss Sam Gibson
- Mr Steven Gillman
- Mr Jamie Graham
- Mr David Graves
- Mr Andrew Griffin
- Mr. Ryan Griffiths
- Mr Cameron Grove
- Mr Charles Gurnham
- Mr Alexander Guttridge
- Mr Max Harvey
- Mr Zachary Hawkhead
- Mr Qiuhan He
- Mr Cesar Hernandez-aguayo
- Ms Clare Higgins
- Mr Jun Hou
- Mr. Daniel Hudson
- Mr Joshua Hughes
- Mr. Filip Husko
- Ms Teodora Ilieva
- Mr Andrew Innes
- Mrs Oto-obong Inyang
- Mr Andrew Jackson
- Mr David Jenkins
- Mr Jacob Kegerreis
- Mr Ashley J. Kelly
- Mr Daniel King
- Miss Lizelke Klindt
- Mr Daniel Kynoch
- Mr Douglas John Laidlaw
- Mr. Brivael Laloux
- Miss Xuewen Liu
- Mr Sheridan Lloyd
- Mr Henry Lockwood
- Dr Yun Long
- Ms. Aurelie Magniez
- Mr Ra'ad Mahmoud
- Mr Giorgio Manzoni
- Mr Lewis Mcard
- Mr Thomas-William McNaught-Roberts
- Miss Ruth McTiernan
- Mr Myles Mitchell
- Mr Jake Mitchell
- Mr Ariam Mora-hernandez
- Mr Vladimir Morozov
- Mr. Samuel Musson
- Mr Alexander Newbold
- Mr Ben Nicholson
- Mr Laurentiu Nita
- Mr Piotr Oleskiewicz
- Ms Maria Piscopo
- Mr Lucas Powell-rudden
- Mr Dorian Praia-do-amaral
- Mr. Jonathan Pritchett
- Mr Arnau Quera-Bofarull
- Mr. Patrick Render
- Mr Jack Richings
- Mr Francis Ridgeon
- Ms Natasha Rigby
- Dr Joshua Rogers
- Mr Alberto Rosales-de-leon
- Mr Thomas Rose
- Mr. Cheng-zong Ruan
- Mr Sergio Ruiz-bonilla
- Mr Omar Ruiz-macias
- Mr. Thomas Sandnes
- Mr Rajath Sathyaprakash
- Mr Jan Scholtz
- Mr. Joseph Scott
- Mr Aidan Sedgewick
- Mr Difu Shi
- Ms Ellen Sirks
- Mr Andrew Smith
- Mr Stefan Spence
- Mr Nicholas Spong
- Mr Stuart Stach
- Mr Sivakkumaran Sukumaran
- Ms Tiantian Sun
- Mr Charles Swindells
- Mr Calvin Sykes
- Miss Sut-ieng Tam
- Mr Henry Truong
- Mr Charles Vincent
- Mr. Vivek Wadhia
- Mr Paul Walker
- Miss Louise Welsh
- Miss Mia West
- Ms. Lily Westerby-griffin
Uncategorised
- Mrs. Nourah Al-muhawish
- Mr Faisal Alanazi
- Mr Kalel Alsaeed
- Mrs Latifah Alshammari
- Mrs Taghreed Alsulami
- Miss Taghreed Altamimi
- Mr James Ashford
- Dr Josie Auckett
- Mr. Samuel Avis
- Simon Badger
- Professor Colin D. Bain
- Dr Karis Baker
- Shankha Banerjee
- Mr Hugh Barlow
- Dr Martin Bauer
- Ms Jemma Bennett
- Miss Khadeejah Bepari
- Ms Anke Biekoetter
- Mr Thomas Birch
- Mr James Black
- Mr. Luis Bojorquez-montijo
- Mr Adam Boutcher
- Mr Oscar Braun-white
- Dr Sarah Bromley
- Mr Ralph Brooks
- Ms Lucy Budge
- Mr Joseph Bullock
- Dr Ariadna Calcines-rosario
- Mrs Linda Campbell
- David G. Cerdeno
- Mr Rahul Chacko
- Gurpreet Chahal
- Mikael Chala
- Mr Tsang Chan
- Dr Nicholas Chancellor
- Mr Andrew Cheek
- Dr Shuying Chen
- Mr Simon Chislett-McDonald
- Mr Paul Clark
- Mr James Cochran
- Ms Clare Collyer
- Mr Jonathan Cullen
- Mr Thomas Cutler
- Mr. Tony Dalton
- Dr Sofia De-carvalho-ribeiro
- Mr Giuseppe De-laurentis
- Mrs Rachael Devlin
- Dr. Celine Dinet
- Mrs Ann-marie Dixon
- Mrs Deborah Dolphin
- Miss Lucy Downes
- Dr Rajeshwari Dutta
- Mr Adam Easton
- Ms Chauby Ekta
- Dr Marc Kenneth Etherington
- Miss Tilly Evans
- Mr. Max Festenstein
- Mr Patrick Foldenauer
- Mr Victor Forouhar Moreno
- Mr Will Foster
- Dr Sotiria Fotopoulou
- Ms. Stephanie Foulds
- Miss Hannah Frost
- Mr Liam Gallagher
- Professor Andrew Gallant
- Miss Polly Gill
- Mr Listra Ginting
- Ms Larissa Gomes-franca
- Raquel Gomez-ambrosio
- Miss Rachel Goodband
- Ms Sarah Goodband
- Mr. Christopher Graham
- Mrs Wendy Gray
- Mr Jack Greenwood
- Miss Parisa Gregg
- Sandeepan Gupta
- Mr William Hamlyn
- Miss Kathryn Hartley
- Mr. Hitham Hassan
- Mr Marian Heil
- Mr Thomas Hicken
- Mr Matthew Hill
- Mr Volkan Hofmann
- Mr Thomas Honey
- Mr Matheus Hostert
- Miss Rongjuan Huang
- Mr. Oliver Hughes
- Dr Soh Ikarashi
- Ms Divya Jain
- Mr. Matthew Jamieson
- Dr Wan Ju
- Miss Niamh Kilcawley
- Mr Andreas Klein
- Mr. Suttikoon Koonkor
- Mr. Jakub Krys
- Mr Kevin Kwok
- Dr David Lagattuta
- Mr Jack Law
- Dr Frederic Leroux
- Jonas Lindert
- Mr Fraser Logue
- Mr. Roy Lomas-zapata
- Mr Joao Luis
- Dr Andrew Mackellar
- Mr. Duncan Mackenzie
- Mr. Makun Madar
- Mrs Catherine Maddox
- Mr Prosenjit Majumder
- Mr Robin Marzucca
- Ms Mohsenah Mashniwi
- Dr Mohammad Masouminia
- Mr Renju Mathew
- Mr. Jonas Matthies
- Mr. Daniel Milne
- Mr Hector Miranda-salinas
- Dr Misaki Mizumoto
- Mr Kristian Moffat
- Mr Ryan Moodie
- Mr Samuel Moody
- Dr Leah Morabito
- Mr. Jonathan Mortlock
- Dr Adel Nader
- Mr Oscar Ochoa-Valeriano
- Mr. Fandi Oktasendra
- Dr Kyle Oman
- Dr Piotr Pander
- Mr Jack Panter
- Dr Alexander Peach
- Mr Benjamin Pearce
- Mr Ismael Perez-marin
- Mr Thomas Pitts
- Mr Francisco Sebastian Ponciano-Ojeda
- Mr Alan Price
- Mr Seth Price
- Dr Annagrazia Puglisi
- Miss Maura Ramirez-quezada
- Miss Apichayaporn Ratkata
- Mr Dominic Reed
- Mr Elliott Reid
- Mr Joey Reiness
- Mr Oliver Rigby
- Muhammad Subkhi Sadullah
- Mr Francesco Sarandrea
- Mrs Catherine Saxton
- Johannes Schlenk
- Dr Marek Schoenherr
- Mr Jack Segal
- Satyajit Seth
- Mr Alvin Shek
- Mr. Jack Shergold
- Ms Chloe So
- Dr Patrycja Stachelek
- Dr Paula Street (née Martin)
- Ms Sharon Sutherland
- Miss Alina Talmantaite
- Mr Craig Testrow
- Dr Fionagh Thomson
- Arsenii Titov
- Mr Joe Troughton
- Mr Luke Turnbull
- Mr Christos Vlahos
- Mr Philip Waite
- Mr Oliver Wales
- Mr Duncan Walker
- Mr Joseph Walker
- Mr Fabrice Wandji
- Ms Ningning Wang
- Mr James Whitehead
- Dr Gail Wilkinson
- Mr Rhys Williams
- Dr. Murray Wilson
- Dr Kali Wilson
- Miss Vanessa Woodhouse
- Dr Steven Wrathmall
- Dr Zhongxiao Xu
- Mr Jiao Yuechun
- Miss Lai Zhang
- Mr. Han Zhang