Andrew John Schofield

Professor Andrew Schofield

Andy Schofield
Nationality	UK
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Birmingham
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Joseph M. Wheatley^[1]
Notable awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize

Andrew John Schofield (Andy Schofield) is a theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Birmingham where he is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and the Head of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). His research focus is in the theory of correlated quantum systems, with current interests concerning: Non Fermi liquids, Quantum criticality and High-temperature superconductivity.^[2]

Biography

Andy Schofield was educated at Whitgift School before reading Natural Sciences at the Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He did his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and won a College Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers, New Jersey before return to Cambridge as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.^[3] He joined the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in 1999, he became the Head of School in 2010, and was promoted in 2015 to Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of EPS.^[4]

Awards

The Schuldham Plate (1989), Gonville and Caius^[5]
In 2002 Andy Schofield was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize^[6] for work on the emergent properties of correlated electrons. ^[7]
He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2002.

References

External links

Official website

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