Personal Data

• Family Status: Married, 2 children.
• Citizenship: British
• Date of Birth: 7 September 1965

• B.A. with first-class honours in Natural Sciences (Physics and Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge, 1986
• D.Phil in theoretical solid-state physics, University of Oxford, 1989

• Junior Research Fellow, St John's College Oxford, October 1989-September 1993
• Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, October 1991-September 1992 (while on leave from Junior Research Fellowship)
• Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Durham, October 1993-September 1995
• Lecturer (October 1995-September 1998), Reader (from October 1998-September 2001) and Professor (from October 2001), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London; also EPSRC Advanced Fellow (October 1995-September 2000)

• North Senior Scholar, St John's College Oxford, 1988-9
• EPSRC Advanced Fellow, 1995-2000
• Maxwell Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, 1998
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1998

• Organizer of workshop on Tip-sample interactions in scanning probe microscopy, held in Cambridge in April 1996.
• Member of programme committee for NANOV conference, Birmingham (England), September 1998.
• Chair of European Research Conference Computational Physics for Nanotechnology, held at Il Ciocco, Tuscany in September 1998.
• Symposium organizer for the IOP Condensed Matter and Materials Physics conference, 1997 and 1998.
• Organiser of Institute of Physics Theory of Condensed Matter Group annual meeting, May 1999.
• Chairman of organising committee for ISSC-13, to be held in London in April 2001.
• Member of International Programme Committee for STM-01, Vancouver, July 2001.

Referee for Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Nature, Surface Science, Journal of Physics, Europhysics Letters, Chemical Physics Letters. Member of the EPSRC Functional Materials peer review college (1995-7), Physics college (1997-2002) and combined college (2002-). Member of EPSRC Physics prioritisation panels, 1998 and 1999.

Other Professional Activities

• Member of Thin Films and Surfaces Group committee, Institute of Physics (1995-); Vice-Chairman (1998-2000), Chair (2000-2002)
• Member of Theory of Condensed Matter Group Committee, Institute of Physics (1997-)
• Member of CCP9 steering group
• Chair of CCP3 (2000-)