Condensed matter and materials physics
Using experimental, theoretical and computational techniques and supported by state-of-the-art facilities, we create and study a variety of advanced materials and nanostructures.
The scope of our work is broad - from materials design and theoretical modelling to materials synthesis and device fabrication - with a special focus on nanoscale characterisation.
Our group consists of approximately 70 academics, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.
Staff
- Professor Mohamed Babikar - Quantum optics, atom optics, semiconductors and optical and electron vortices
- Professor Ed Boyes - Catalysis, electron microscopy
- Dr Stuart Cavill - Magnetoelectrics, spinwave dynamics, novel magnetic textures
- Professor Roy Chantrell - Femto-magnetism and spinwave dynamics
- Professor Irene D'Amico - Spin-transport and spintronics
- Dr Richard Evans - Atomistic spin dynamics, advanced magnetic materials, spintronics
- Professor Aires Ferreira - Condensed matter theory
- Professor Dame Pratibha Gai - Catalysis, electron microscopy
- Professor Rex Godby - Many-electron quantum mechanics
- Dr Yvette Hancock - Spin transport, tight binding models, density functional theory
- Professor Thomas Krauss - Photonic crystals, silicon photonics
- Dr Roland Kröger - Nanomaterials and raman spectroscopy
- Dr Vlado Lazarov - New spintronic materials & electron microscopy (experiment)
- Professor Marco Lucamarini
- Professor Keith McKenna - Predictive materials modelling for applications in energy, electronics and catalysis
- Professor Kevin O'Grady - Magnitisation reversal, exchange bias
- Dr Andrew Pratt - Surface properties of nanomaterials, electron spectroscopy
- Professor Matt Probert - Density functional theory, materials modelling
- Professor Tim Spiller - Quantum technologies (implementations and theory)
- Professor Steve Tear - Scanning electron and probe microscopies, surface science
- Professor Sarah Thompson - Spin transport and nanothermal imaging
- Dr Gonzalo Vallejo Fernandez - Thin film and fine particle magnetism
- Dr Ignacio Wilson-Rae - Optomechanics/nanomechanics (theory)
- Dr Jing Wu - Femto-magnetism and spinwave dynamics
- Professor Jun Yuan - Electron microscopy, electron vortices, nanomaterials
- Dr Laura Clark
- Royal Society University Research Fellow
- Image analysis and contrast mechanisms, electron microscopy
- Dr Phil Hasnip
- Density functional theory, materials modelling
- Dr Demie Kepaptsoglou
- SuperSTEM Research Fellow
- Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Materials Science
- Dr Leonardo Lari
- Research Officer (Research Fellow)
- Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Materials Science.
- Dr Sergiu Ruta
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Computational Magnetism
- Dr Yue Wang
- Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
- Nanotechnology, 2D material devices
- Dr Sitki Aktas
- Dr Peter Byrne -Density functional theory, materials modelling
- Dr John Carey Density functional theory, materials modelling
- Dr Donato Conteduca - Nanophotonics, optical trapping
- Dr Malcolm Dearg - Electron Microscopy
- Dr William Frost - Spintronic devices
- Dr James Hussey
- Sarah Jenkins -Computational magnetism
- Dr Igor Konieczniak - CV – QKD for Free Space Communications
- Dr Balati Kuerbanjiang - Spintronics
- Dr Rupesh Kumar Parapatil Subraman - Experimental DV-Quantum key distribution and CV-Quantum key distribution
- Dr Kezheng Li - Nanophotonics and biophotonics
- Dr Roberto Moreno-Ortega - Computational magnetism
- Dr Anita Radini - Archaeology
- Dr Christopher Reardon - Photonics
- Ashish Suri - Electronic Engineering
- Dr Chuan-Jia Tong - Density functional theory, materials modelling
- Dr Anthony Vaquero-Stainer - Metrology for quantum key distribution
- Dr Samuel Westmoreland - Computational magnetism
Application areas
We apply our collective expertise to four key research areas:
Centres
Our researchers have strong links to several leading interdisciplinary research centres, including:
York Centre for Quantum Technologies
An initiative aimed at further developing the University’s substantial expertise into quantum research. The Centre aims to foster new collaborations across all areas of quantum theory, and in particular their applications to emerging quantum technologies.