Staff expertise in Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics

Head of Department

Professor Martin Hardcastle

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics, Financial Mathematics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist areas: High-energy astrophysics / Statistics
• Staff profile: View Prof Hardcastle's profile

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A-Z staff list

Dr Salah Beddiaf

• Title: Principal Lecturer in Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Differential equations

Professor Elias Brinks

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Galaxies
• Staff profile: View Professor Brinks' profile

Dr Ben Burningham

• Title: Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics and Astrophysics
• Specialist areas: Low-mass stars / Brown dwarfs
• Staff profile: View Dr Burningham's profile

Dr Catarina Carvalho

• Title: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Algebra / Theoretical computer science
• Staff profile: View Dr Carvalho's profile

Dr James Collett

• Title: Principal Lecturer in Physics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Physics / Fluid dynamics
• Staff profile: View Dr Collett's profile

Professor Kristen Coppin

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics, Director of CAR
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics, Financial Mathematics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Submillimetre astrophysics
• Staff profile: View Prof. Coppin's profile

Emeritus Professor Alan Davies

• Title: Professor of Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Numerical algorithms / Financial derivatives / Mathematics outreach

Professor James Geach

• Title: Royal Society University Research Fellow
• Teaching contributes to: Engineering mathematics
• Specialist area: Sub-millimetre astrophysics
• Staff profile: View Prof Geach's profile

Dr Richard Greenaway

• Title: Senior Research Fellow
• Teaching contributes to: Engineering mathematics
• Specialist area: Scientific computing / Light scattering
• Staff profile: View Dr Greenaway's profile

Dr Evelyn Hesse

• Title: Senior Lecturer in Physics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics and Astrophysics
• Specialist areas: Optics / Diffraction
• Staff profile: View Dr Hesse's profile

Dr Edwin Hirst

• Title: Senior Research Fellow
• Specialist area: Laboratory physics / Light scattering

Professor Hugh Jones

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist areas: Low-mass stars / Brown dwarfs / Extrasolar Planets
• Staff profile: View Professor Jones's profile

Dr Steve Kane

• Title: Principal Lecturer in Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Numerical algorithms / Differential equations

Professor Paul Kaye

• Title: Professor of Atmospheric Physics
• Specialist area: Light scattering / Instrumentation
• Staff profile: View Professor Kaye's profile

Professor Sugata Kaviraj

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Galaxies
• Staff profile: View Dr Kaviraj's profile

Professor Chiaki Kobayashi

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Computational astrophysics / High-performance computing
• Staff profile: View Dr Kobayashi's profile

Professor Phil Lucas

• Title: Reader in Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Star formation, brown dwarfs and exoplanets
• Staff profile: View Dr Lucas's profile

Professor William Martin

• Title: Visiting Professor
• Specialist area: Lasers / Optics /
  Light scattering / Atmospheric physics

Professor Detlef Mueller

• Title: Reader in Physics and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award Recipient
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist areas: Laser spectroscopy / Atmospheric physics
• Staff profile: View Dr Mueller's profile

Dr Ralf Napiwotzki

• Title: Reader in Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist area: Evolved stars / Portfolio management
• Staff profile: View Dr Napiwotzki's profile

Dr Yann Peresse

• Title: Lecturer in Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Mathematics
• Specialist area: Algebra

Professor David Pinfield

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics, Financial Mathematics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Low-mass stars
• Staff profile: View Professor Pinfield's profile

Dr Thomas Rauscher

• Title: Visiting Research fellow from 1 October 2015
• Teaching contributes to: Physics and Astrophysics
• Specialist area: Nuclear astrophysics

Mrs Carrie Ricketts

• Title: Lecturer in Actuarial Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Mathematics and Financial Mathematics, Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Actuarial Mathematics

Professor Sean Ryan

• Title: Professor of Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Specialist areas: Nuclear astrophysics / Stellar spectroscopy / Actuarial methods

Mr Kuldeep Singh

• Title: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics, Financial Mathematics and Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist area: Mathematical techniques

Dr Dan Smith

• Title: Associate Professor
• Teaching contributes to: Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Financial Mathematics
• Staff profile: View Dr Smith's profile

Professor Ranjeet Sokhi

• Title: Professor of Atmospheric Physics
• Specialist area: Climate physics / Air quality
• Staff profile: View Professor Sokhi's profile

Dr Warren Stanley

• Title: Research Fellow
• Teaching contributes to: Physics and Astrophysics
• Specialist area: Laboratory physics / Light scattering
• Staff profile: View Dr Stanley's profile

Dr Jason Stevens

• Title: Reader in Astrophysics
• Teaching contributes to: Physics and Astrophysics
• Specialist area: Active galaxies
• Staff profile: View Dr Stevens's profile

Dr Chris Stopford

• Title: Research Assistant
• Teaching contributes to: Engineering Mathematics
• Specialist areas: Light scattering / Scientific computation
• Staff profile: View Dr Stopford's profile

Dr Charles Young

• Title: Associate Professor
• Teaching contributes to: Mathematics
• Specialist area: Algebra / Mathematical Physics
• Staff profile: View Dr Young's profile