Robert Smith

Associate Professor

Dr Rob Smith is an experimental physicist at Oxford whose work focuses on ultracold atomic gases and many-body quantum phenomena. He leads a group building an erbium (highly magnetic atom) cold-atom experiment to explore effects of long-range dipole-dipole interactions in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium regimes. His research explores phenomena such as supersolidity, turbulence in quantum fluids, impurity physics, and open quantum systems. In recent work, his group has experimentally measured the interaction-induced shift of the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature in dipolar gases.

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/group/dipolar-quantum-gases-group

Matthew Fuchter

Professor of Chemistry

My research group focus is on functional molecules, chiral materials, and photoswitchable systems with applications across materials science, medicine and sustainable technologies

Gianluca Gregori

Professor of Physics

My research interests are: Laboratory Astrophysics; Fusion energy; Quantum plasmas; Fundamental physics with high-power lasers

Chao He

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

My research interests include polarisation optics, biomedical microscopy and vectorial imaging

Laura Herz

Professor of Physics

My research is focused on investigating nanostructured molecular and inorganic semiconducting materials

Doug Higgs

Emeritus Professor, Consultant Physician

We use state-of-the-art laboratory and computational approaches to understand how mammalian genes are switched on and off during development and differentiation and how this goes awry in human genetic diseases.

Felix Hofmann

Professor of Engineering Science

I’m interested in the effect of defects on material properties, ranging from single atom defects, such as vacancies and interstitials, to extended defects, such as dislocations, to macroscopic defects, for example cracks and voids.