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Professor in the Department of Physics+44 (0) 191 33 43574

Biography

I read Physics at Keble College, Oxford graduating with first class honours in 1994. I remained in Oxford at Linacre College for my D.Phil. on laser spectroscopy of muonium with Patrick Baird and Pat Sandars. I was then awarded a Lindemann Fellowship and moved to Boulder, Colorado to work with Carl Wieman at JILA on Bose-Einstein condensation. I returned to Oxford in 2001 as a postdoctoral researcher with Chris Foot and secured a Junior Research Fellowship at Brasenose College. In 2002 I was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which I transferred to Durham in 2004. I was promoted to Reader in 2008 and full Professor in 2013.

Research interests

  • Bose-Einstein condensation
  • bright matter-wave solitons
  • the application of neutral atoms and molecules to quantum simulation and precision measurement
  • two-species quantum degenerate gases
  • ultracold atomic collisions and Feshbach resonances
  • ultracold molecules

Publications

Conference Paper

  • Rb-85 BEC near a Feshbach resonance
    Claussen, N., Cornish, S., Roberts, J., Cornell, E., & Wieman, C. (2001). Rb-85 BEC near a Feshbach resonance. In E. Arimondo, P. DeNatale, & M. Inguscio (Eds.), AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (pp. 325-336).
  • Measurement of the muonium 1S-2S transition frequency
    Meyer, V., Bagayev, S., Baird, P., Bakule, P., Boshier, M., Breitruck, A., Cornish, S., Dychkov, S., Eaton, G., Grossman, A., Hubl, D., Hughes, V., Jungmann, K., Lane, I., Liu, Y., Lucas, D., Matyugin, Y., Merkel, J., Putlitz, G., … Yakhontov, V. (1998). Measurement of the muonium 1S-2S transition frequency (T. Nelson, Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1109/cpem.1998.699731

Journal Article

Supervision students