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Physics
Profile
Research Degrees Head of Research Website
MPhil/PhD Professor V I Falko www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/physics/
Taught Courses Director of Postgraduate Studies Location
MSc in Biophotonics Dr O Kolosov Physics Building
Number of Postgraduate Students Postgraduate Enquiries
64 Mr Robin Lewsey
tel: +44 (0)1524 594584
Head of Department e-mail: physics@lancaster.ac.uk
Professor Peter N Ratoff
No 1 Physics Department in the UK (RAE 2008)
Physics is studied and taught in an active and vibrant research-led
environment at Lancaster, with 34 permanent academic staff, 42
research staff, 19 academic visitors and 64 postgraduate students
from a wide variety of countries.
The Department received the highest possible rating of 5* in the
government’s 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and scored the
highest rating of all UK Physics Departments in the 2008 RAE.
Making us the top Physics Department in the UK for research. The
Department is rated 6
th
in the UK for student satisfaction.
Research is concentrated on the experimental and theoretical
Professor George Pickett
aspects of and Cosmology, Condensed Matter Physics, New
Materials and Nanoscience. It is supported by 50 current research
Professor of Physics and Fellow of the Royal Society
grants totalling over £13 million, mostly from PPARC, EPSRC, the
Royal Society and the EC. There are numerous funded
Professor Pickett is interested in the behaviour of materials at
collaborations with overseas laboratories, including those based at
temperatures close to absolute zero. “Quantum Fluids” at
CERN and Fermilab, as well as major European networks and the
these temperatures are very interesting materials since, among
Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science and Technology.
other things, they mimic the behaviour of the structure of
space-time itself, allowing us to carry out cosmological In recent years members of the Department have gained
experiments in the laboratory. Fellowships of the Royal Society, STFC and EPSRC, a number of
Leverhulme and Royal Society Fellowships, the Institute of Physics
“The Department was the highest rated physics department in
Rutherford Medal, the Simon Memorial Prize, the Charles Vernon
the 2008 RAE and also gained the top rating of 5* in RAE
Boys Medal and Prize, and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Low
2001. The Department provides excellent research facilities
Temperature Physics.
and opportunities in highly rated research groups spanning
fields as diverse as cosmology, high energy physics, through
nanoscience and microkelvin physics to non-linear dynamics
and medical physics.”
“Postgraduate study at Lancaster will introduce you to the
international nature of today’s physics research. We
participate in several EU networks and collaborations with
groups worldwide, including particle physics experiments at
CERN (Geneva), Fermilab (US) and Kamioka/Tokai (Japan). In
2009 the Microkelvin Laboratory was designated a European
Facility. The Department provides a broad range of stimulating
opportunities for postgraduate research in both experimental
and theoretical physics.”
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