Sir Michael Victor Berry is a British theoretical physicist. He is the Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at the University of Bristol.
John Lighton Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist,whose seven-decade career included significant periods in Ireland,Canada,and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor,and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
Dame Julia Stretton Higgins is a British polymer scientist. Since 1976,she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London,where she is emeritus professor and senior research investigator.
Raymond Allen Dwek CBE FRS FRSC is a scientist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the biotechnology company Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd.
Janet Pierrehumbert is Professor of Language Modelling in the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow of Trinity College,Oxford. She developed an intonational model which includes a grammar of intonation patterns and an explicit algorithm for calculating pitch contours in speech,as well as an account of intonational meaning. It has been widely influential in speech technology,psycholinguistics,and theories of language form and meaning. Pierrehumbert is also affiliated with the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury.
Sir Michael Pepper is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.
Sir David Charles Clary,FRS is a British theoretical chemist. He was president of Magdalen College,Oxford,from 2005 to 2020. He was the first chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2009 to 2013. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
John Michael David Coey,known as Michael Coey,is a Belfast-born experimental physicist working in the fields of magnetism and spintronics. He is an Emeritus professor at the Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
Sir Bernard Walter Silverman,is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College,Oxford,from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University,and has also been attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics,the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment,and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society. He was briefly president of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010,a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office. He was awarded a knighthood in the 2018 New Years Honours List,"For public service and services to Science".
Sir Peter Leonard Knight is a British physicist,professor of quantum optics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London,and principal of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. He is a leading academic in the field of quantum optics and is the recipient of several major awards including the Royal Medal from the Royal Society and the Thomas Young Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. He is a former president of the Institute of Physics and Optica,the first non North American-based person to take the position.
Dame Athene Margaret Donald is a British physicist. She is Professor Emerita of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge,and former Master of Churchill College,Cambridge.
Michael John Whelan HonFRMS FRS FInstP is a British scientist.
Michael Lawrence KleinNAS is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and director of the Institute for Computational Molecular Science in the college of science and technology at Temple University in Philadelphia,US. He was previously the Hepburn Professor of Physical Science in the Center for Molecular Modeling at the University of Pennsylvania.
Donal Donat Conor Bradley is the Vice President for Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),Saudi Arabia. From 2015 until 2019,he was head of the Mathematical,Physical and Life Sciences Division of the University of Oxford and a Professor of Engineering Science and Physics at Jesus College,Oxford. From 2006 to 2015,he was the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He was the founding director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and served as vice-provost for research at the college.
Sir Steven Charles Cowley is a British theoretical physicist and international authority on nuclear fusion and astrophysical plasmas. He has served as director of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) since 1 July 2018. Previously he served as president of Corpus Christi College,Oxford,since October 2016. and head of the EURATOM / CCFE Fusion Association and chief executive officer of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
Dipankar Das Sarma,popularly known as D.D. Sarma,is an Indian scientist and structural chemist,known for his researches in the fields of Solid State Chemistry,Spectroscopy,Condensed Matter Physics,Materials Science,and Nanoscience. He is a former MLS Chair Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Materials and the GAST Professor of Uppsala University,Sweden,A recipient of TWAS Physics Prize and the UNESCO Biennial Javed Husain Prize,Sarma was honored by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),Government of India,in 1994,with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.
J. C. Séamus Davis is an Irish physicist whose research explores the world of macroscopic quantum physics. Davis concentrates upon the fundamental physics of exotic states of electronic,magnetic,atomic and space-time quantum matter. A specialty is development of innovative instrumentation to allow direct atomic-scale visualization or perception of the quantum many-body phenomena that are characteristic of these states.
John Boland is an Irish chemist specialising in nanoscale materials and systems who is Dean of Research at Trinity College Dublin.
Sheila Rowan is a Scottish physicist and academic,who is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland,and director of its Institute for Gravitational Research since 2009. She is known for her work in advancing the detection of gravitational waves. In 2016,Rowan was appointed the (part-time) Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government.
Amanda Karen Petford-Long is a Professor of Materials Science and Distinguished Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory. She is also a Professor of Materials Science at Northwestern University.
