Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Theoretical and computational physics and chemistry
Public outreach & key achievements
I am a Reader in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Queen's. I hold a European Research Council grant (2019-2024) for a research programme developing theory for antimatter interactions with atoms, molecules and condensed matter. I graduated MPhys from Balliol College, Univesity of Oxford (2008) and PhD in Theoretical Atomic Physics from QUB (2011).
Since then I have been a Visiting Fellow at ITAMP, Harvard University, a Research Fellow at Durham University Chemistry Department and the Joint Quantum Centre, and an EPSRC Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. I was awarded the 2019 Institute of Physics Sir David Bates prize for outstanding contributions to atomic, molecular, quantum and plasma physics, the 2018 QUB Vice-Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Prize, and the 2017 international ICPEAC Sheldon Datz prize.
I am Treasurer for the Institute of Physics Ireland, and secretary of the Institute of Physics Atomic and Molecular Interactions Group (AMIG), and member of the scientific advisory board for the International workshop for positron and positronium physics (POSMOL).
Research students
| PhD Title | Many-body theory of positron-molecule interactions |
| Name | Jack Cassidy |
| Year of Study | 2020 - |
| PhD Title | Theory and computation for positron interactions with many-electron systems |
| Name | Jaroslav Horfierka |
| Year of Study | 2019 - |
| PhD Title | Positron interactions in atoms and clusters |
| Name | David Waide |
| Year of Study | 2016 - |
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
- School of Mathematics and Physics
- Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (CTAMOP)
- Antimatter and Many-Body Theory: Green Group