Co-opted Member: Dr Dermot Green MInstP

Dermot Green is a Reader in Theoretical Physics at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). His research is focused on theoretical and computational atomic, molecular and optical physics and theoretical quantum chemistry, and chiefly the development of many-body theory approaches to describe low-energy antimatter-matter interactions.

Born and raised in Belfast, he attended Belfast Royal Academy grammar school. A first-generation university student, he studied physics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating MPhys in 2008, and gained a PhD in theoretical atomic physics from Queen’s in 2011.

He held a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (ITAMP), Harvard University (2010), a Junior Research Fellowship at Durham University (Hatfield College, and Durham Department of Chemistry), an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellowship (2015-2019, QUB), and a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2019-2024, QUB).

He now holds an ERC Consolidator Grant (2025-2030).

He was awarded the 2019 IOP David Bates Prize for outstanding early-career contributions to quantum, atomic, molecular and plasma physics.

He is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of The International Workshop on Positron and Positronium Physics, a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, and one of the 40 inaugural members of the recently formed Young Academy Ireland. 

He is Chair of the Board of Directors of IOP Ireland, and Vice-Chair of the Ireland committee, after previously being Chair (2022-2024) and before that Treasurer. He was Secretary of the IOP Atomic and Molecular Interactions Group 2021-2023. 

He represents the island of Ireland on Council.