Physics & joint degrees

Richard is an Associate Professor in Particle Accelerator Physics at the John Adams Institute. His research specialism is the development of novel particle-acceleration techniques, with a particular focus on plasma-wakefield accelerators.

Following undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Durham and University College London, respectively, he moved to Fermilab (USA) as a Research Associate and then DESY (Germany) as a Research Fellow.

At DESY he was Group Leader for Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators as well as Project Coordinator of the FLASHForward experiment for many years. His current research focus is on answering the ‘luminosity question’ of how best to apply plasma accelerators to particle physics and photon science as well as applications in medicine and industry.

Richard welcomes applications from prospective doctoral students with interests in both novel and conventional accelerator research.

Richard teaches Mathematical Methods for Physicists (CP3 and CP4) in the first year and Electromagnetism and Optics (A2) in the second year.

His research specialism is in Particle Accelerator Physics, specifically in the development of Novel Accelerator Technology for the miniaturisation and increased proliferation of particle accelerators. In recent years he has taken a leading role in the research of Plasma-Wakefield Accelerators, with a particular interest in answering the ‘luminosity question’ of plasma accelerators through high-repetition-rate and high-average-power operation.

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I am an experimental physicist focusing on using ultracold atomic gases to study many-body quantum phenomena. The first five years of my research career were spent investigating magnetism, superconductivity and quantum phase transitions in a conventional condensed matter setting of the Quantum Matter group at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Then in 2008, recognising the potential for the study of many body physics, I decided to switch fields to study cold atomic gases in the group of Zoran Hadzibabic. In 2012 I became a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF), also based in Cambridge.

In April 2018 I moved to Oxford and continue to hold my Royal Society URF. I have started a new experimental cold atom group and we are building up an ultracold Erbium experiment to study the effects of long-range dipole-dipole interactions on both equilibrium and non-equilibrium many-body quantum phenomena.

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A DPhil student studying Condensed Matter Physics under the co-supervision of Prof. Andrew Boothroyd and Dr Kejin Zhou from Diamond Light Source.

My research consists mainly of probing strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in quantum materials using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) in Diamond Light Source. As a complementary technique, I use neutron scattering to help me gain more information about other aspects of my materials. I also create mathematical models to describe novel quantum phases and do computer simulation to compare with experimental data obtained. By improving our understanding of these quantum effects, we can efficiently search or design materials with useful properties for application in electronic and spintronic devices.

I particularly focus on quantum magnetism in two branches of quantum materials. 1. Heavy metal oxide as strong Mott insulators, 2. Double perovskites with highly entangled spin and orbital angular momenta. I am also studying low energy excitations in strongly correlated materials and the magnetic structure in Weyl semimetals.

I am a Clarendon Scholar and I completed my MPhys degree at the University of St Andrews.

I am currently serving as a college lecturer in physics at Worcester College. I am also serving as a tutor at St Edmund Hall and Keble College.

I teach courses including:

• Papers CP1/2: Mechanics, Circuit Theory & Electromagnetism
• Papers CP3/4: Mathematics
• Papers A1: Thermal Physics
• Papers A2: Electromagnetism & Optics

• Quantum materials
• Superconductivity
• Quantum Magnetism
• Topological Materials
• Crystal Growth
• RIXS

I am a DPhil student in the Particle Theory group, working under the supervision of Ed Hardy. I completed both my undergraduate and MMathPhys degrees at Oxford.

I am interested in how we can test theories beyond the standard model of particle physics with astrophysical observations and experiments on earth. I am particularly motivated by questions such as the nature of dark matter, and how our universe might fit in with quantum gravity.

Stefan is an Associate Professor at Engineering Science, Man Group Research Fellow in Financial Machine Learning and former Deputy Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Mentor in the FinTech stream at the Creative Destruction Lab at Saïd Business School, all at the University of Oxford. He also works on commercial projects with Man Group, the funding partner of the Oxford-Man Institute, firstly as a Scientific Advisor and later as Principle Quant.

Stefan’s research is focused on applied machine learning in finance, economics and natural sciences, including deep learning, reinforcement learning, network and NLP approaches. He is also interested in exploring early use cases of quantum computing. At the Oxford Internet Institute Stefan teaches the intensive module on Machine Learning and the elective on Applied Machine Learning as part of the MSc in Social Data Science.

Through the University of Oxford, Stefan frequently engages in collaborative projects with industry partners including NVIDIA, Graphcore, Nokia and Lockheed Martin. He has extensive consulting experience in leading machine learning projects in application domains such as finance and healthcare with clients ranging from listed companies to SMEs and start-ups. Stefan holds a DPhil in Mathematical Physics from Imperial College.

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