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The group focuses on solving key intellectual and practical problems in quantum systems, materials properties, biomedicine, energy and environmental care. This entails major research activities in novel superconductors, quantum magnetism and strongly correlated electron systems, quantum information processing, liquids and amorphous materials, phase transitions, optical organic materials and nanostructures/devices and biological physics, many of which are strongly linked with advanced computational modelling.

Our research is strongly positioned internationally with several worldleading groups using equipment based both in-house and at central facilities for neutron- and X-ray scattering and cutting edge computational materials modelling embracing geophysics, nanoscience, scanning probe microscopy, quantum information processing and biological physics.

We lead a number of inter-institutional and/or inter-disciplinary collaborations, for example the LCN, the Materials Simulation Laboratory (MSL) and the London-wide Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials.

We have published ~700 refereed papers (>10% Nature group, Science and PRL), participated in ~100 international collaborations, hosted 14 senior international visitors and delivered 461 talks at major international conferences