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A group photo showing most of the academic and research staff in the Department of Physics on 18 December 2024 at the end-of-term social event. From left to right: Grebogi, Wang, Ullner, Debnath, McGloin, Dang, Macpherson, Rubido, Baptista, Young, Romano, Doyle, George, Perez-Reche. Missing are Angel, Moura, Giuraniuc, Schelter, Thiel, and Bermudez.

Browse our list of Department of Physics staff and PhD students below. Follow the links to find more information about their teaching responsibilities, research interests, and recent publications.

Academic staff

Research staff

PhD students

Professional services

Visitors

Name	Position	Institution	Dates
Nasr Mella	PhD student	Cité Universitaire Bouraoui Amar, Algeria	October 2024
Dr Daniel Chaves	Associate Professor	Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil	October 2024
Jingdong Zhang	PhD student	Fudan University, China	2024
Luan Yang	PhD student	Fudan University, China
Ana Paula da Silva Koltun	PhD student	CAPES, Brazil	2024
Dr Mario Parra Rodriguez	Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology	University of Strathclyde	June 2023

External contributors

Name	Role	Institution	Contact
Dr Derek Ball	Student project supervisor	SMMSN, University of Aberdeen	Email
Dr Guy Bewick	Student project supervisor	IMS, University of Aberdeen	Email
Prof. Stefan Hoppler	Student project supervisor	IMS, University of Aberdeen	Email
Dr James Ross	Student project supervisor	SMMSN, University of Aberdeen	Email
Prof. Andy Welch	Student project supervisor	IEMDS, University of Aberdeen	Email

Emeriti, honorary, and former staff

Name	Position	Years at Aberdeen or dates of appointment	Contact
Prof. John Brown FRSE (1947-2019)	Honorary Professor	1998-2019
Dr Fabrizio Cossu	Tutorial Fellow	2024
Dr Geoff Dunn	Emeritus Senior Lecturer	1998-2023
Dr Alan Fenwick	Honorary Research Fellow	2024-2027	Email
Dr Michael Gadsden (1933-2003)	Senior Lecturer	1970-1997
Prof. David Hukins FRSE	MacRobert Professor of Physics	1994-2003
Prof. Jürgen Kurths CorrFRSE	Sixth Century Chair in Complex Systems Biology	2009-2017	Email
Prof. Ying-Cheng Lai CorrFRSE	Sixth Century Chair in Electrical Engineering	2017-2022	Email
Prof. Antonio Politi	Emeritus Professor (Chair in Physics of Life Sciences)	2011-2022	Email
Prof. Thomas Redpath	Emeritus Professor (Chair in School of Medical Sciences)	1992-2011	Email
Dr John Reid (1942-2021)	Senior Lecturer	1989-2013
Prof. Peter Sharp FRSE	Emeritus Professor (Chair in Medical Physics)	1972-2012	Email
Prof. Jan Skakle FRSE	Emeritus Professor (Personal Chair)	1994-2023	Email
Prof. Norval Strachan	Emeritus Professor (Chair in Physics)	1998-2021	Email
Prof. J Michael Thompson FRS	Sixth Century Chair in Theoretical & Applied Dynamics	2006-2016

Group photo image credit: Dr Murilo Baptista.