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Philip Moriarty

Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science

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Biography

I'm a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham. My research interests span a number of topical themes in nanometre scale science with a particular current focus on single atom/molecule manipulation using scanning probes. See my ORCID profile for a full list of publications and grant awards.

I've a keen interest in outreach activities, primary and secondary education, and both science and higher education funding policy. (See the "Beyond the Ivory Tower" tab). In addition to participating in a number of research council-funded public engagement projects (including Giants of the Infinitesimal), I've been interviewed, and written for, The Independent, The Guardian, Times Higher Education, BBC Radio 4, Die Zeit, and The Economist amongst others. I'm also a regular contributor to the Sixty Symbols YouTube project and blog as often as I can at Symptoms Of The Universe.

While I don't share my infamous namesake's fascination with the binomial theorem, in my spare time I enjoy exploring the deep and fundamental connections that exist between quantum physics and heavy metal (music, not Au, Ag, and Cu).

Career History

  • 2005 - present Professor of Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham [EPSRC Leadership Fellow from 2008 - 2014]
  • 2003 - 2005 Reader, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham
  • 1997 - 2003 Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Nottingham
  • 1994 - 1997 Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Physics, University of Nottingham [Research supervisor: Prof. PH Beton]
  • 1990 - 1994 PhD, School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University [Supervisor: Prof. Greg Hughes]

Expertise Summary

Teaching Summary

Current Teaching

  • "The Politics, Perception and Philosophy of Physics". (F34PPP)

Previous Teaching

F31ST1 Thermal and Kinetic Physics

F32SMS Applications of Fourier Analysis

F33AS5 Atoms and Molecules at Surfaces

F32EX2 2nd year Undergraduate Laboratory. [2nd year lab. organiser from 1997 - 2004. See Graphical Computing In The Undergraduate Laboratory, P. Moriarty et al., Am. J. Phys. 71 1062 (2003)]

F31YL1 Year 1 Error Analysis lectures

F34NIN Introduction to Nanotechnology

F34CHA Physical Characterisation of Nanostructures

Research Summary

My current research primarily involves imaging, spectroscopy, and manipulation down to the single chemical bond level using dynamic force microscopy under ultrahigh vacuum conditions and at cryogenic… read more

Selected Publications

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