
Academic staff
Find out more about our academic staff and please get in contact if you have a question.
Academic staff

Professor Justin Read
Head of the School of Mathematics and Physics

Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Distinguished Chair, Professor of Physics, Professor of Public Engagement in Science, Centre Director

Professor Jeremy Allam
Professor of Ultrafast Optoelectronics

Dr Wooli Bae
Lecturer in Experimental Soft Matter Physics

Professor Wilton Catford
Professor, Research Group Leader of Experimental Nuclear Physics

Professor Steven Clowes
Director of Physics, Quantum Foundations and Technologies Research Group

Dr Michelle Collins
Reader (Associate Professor)

Dr Payel Das
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Dr Alexis Diaz Torres
Reader in Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Dr Daniel Doherty
Associate Professor

Dr Denis Erkal
Reader (Associate Professor) of Astrophysics

Professor David Faux
Professor of Physics

Professor Marian Florescu
Professor of Physics

Dr Eran Ginossar
Associate Professor

Dr Alessia Gualandris
Associate Professor
Dr Isabella Guido
Senior Lecturer in Experimental Biological Physics

Dr Jack Henderson
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Dr Robert Izzard
Senior Lecturer

Dr Izabela Jurewicz
Lecturer in Soft Matter

Professor Joseph Keddie
Professor of Soft Matter Physics

Dr Konstantin Litvinenko
Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in Physics
Professor Gavin Lotay
Professor, Director of Research and Innovation

Dr Lisa Morrison
Lecturer in Physics

Professor Benedict Murdin
Professor of Physics, Head of the Photonics and Quantum Sciences Group

Dr Noelia Noel
Senior Lecturer, PhD in Astrophysics

Professor Rebecca Nutbrown
Professor of Medical Physics

Dr Silvia Pani
Senior Lecturer in Applied Radiation Physics

Professor Zsolt Podolyak
Professor

Professor Patrick Regan
Professor of Radionuclide Metrology

Dr Andrea Rocco
Associate Professor (Reader) in Physics and Mathematical Biology

Dr Jesús Rubio Jiménez
Surrey Future Fellow, Quantum Foundations and Technologies Research Group

Dr Richard Sear
Associate Professor (aka Reader), Soft Matter, Biological and Medical Physics Group leader

Professor Paul Sellin
Professor of Physics

Dr Caroline Shenton-Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Applied Nuclear Physics

Professor Paul Stevenson
Professor of Physics, AWE William Penney Fellow

Dr Matteo Vorabbi
Lecturer in Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Dr Esra Yuksel
Lecturer in Theoretical Nuclear Physics