Professor Maurice Skolnick

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics and Co-Director of EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies

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Professor Maurice Skolnick obtained his PhD in 1975 from the University of Oxford and then spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute, Grenoble. He then moved to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern in 1978, where he spent the next 13 years, in the last three years as a Senior Principal Scientific Officer (individual merit). In January 1991 he was appointed as Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Sheffield. In addition to leading his own research group, he is Co-Director of the EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies, the national UK centre for the fabrication of III-V semiconductor structures. In September 2001 he was awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship and in January 2002 received the Mott Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics. He is the Chair of the Semiconductor Commission and a Vice-President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2002-2005). In May 2009 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society.

His principal research interests include the physics and device physics of semiconductor quantum dots, photonic structures and structures exhibiting polariton effects. An underlying theme of much of the research is concerned with the control of light matter interactions in structures of reduced dimensionality.