Emeritus Prof Gillian Gehring OBE
Professor of Solid State Physics
Contact details
- Room : E12c
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24299
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : g.gehring@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Theory and experimental studies of magnetic oxides
Public engagement
- Physicists into Primary Schools
Professional activities
- Co-Editor Europhysics Letters
- Member of the Editorial Board New Journal of Physics
- Women in Physics
- European Platform for Women in Science
Honours
- 2005 - O.B.E ‘For Services to Physics and to Equal Opportunities’
- 2007 - Fellow of European Physical Society
- 2009 - Mott Medal and Prize awarded by the Institute of Physics
- 2009 - Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Recent key publications
- Two magnetic regimes in doped ZnO corresponding to a dilute magnetic semiconductor and a dilute magnetic insulator, AJ Behan, A Mokhtari, HJ Blythe,D Score, XH Xu, JR Neal, AM Fox and GA Gehring, Phys Rev Lett 100, 047206 (2008)
- Room-temperature magneto-optics of ferromagnetic transition-metal-doped ZnO thin films JR Neal, AJ Behan, RM Ibrahim, GA Gehring et al. Phys Rev Lett 96 (2006) 197208
- Pressure Induced Quantum Phase Transitions GA Gehring Euro Phys Lett 82, 60004 (2008)
- Monte Carlo simulation of growth of binary bcc structured layers Rui-Qiang Zhang, Xiao-Hong Xu, Shun-Yan Zhang and GA Gehring Phys Rev B78, 075419 (2008)