Molecular Physics Group

This is an IOP special interest group, which is a community of IOP members focused on a particular discipline, application or area of interest.

Special interest groups allow members to connect and share knowledge and ideas. The IOP funds groups to deliver a range of activities including events, prizes and bursaries. All of our groups are driven by members.

About the group

Molecular physics is a flourishing interdisciplinary field of research in the UK, encompassing theoretical and experimental activity in many areas such as:

surfaces
spectroscopy
solid state physics
quantum chemistry
laser chemistry/physics
molecular reaction dynamics

Molecular physicists work at the interface of physics and chemistry and there is a need to promote and support the chemical physics community.

As a special interest, member-driven group, our aim is to provide a forum for the promotion of this rapidly developing field of physics research. We establish closer links between scientists working at the interface of physics and chemistry, in both academia and industry. We actively pursue contact and collaboration with other societies and groups. All of this promotes the exchange of ideas and developments in the field of molecular physics.

What the group does

Our objectives are to:

promote the interests of molecular physics in the IOP and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, as well as in the UK at large
establish closer links between physicists and chemists
establish closer links between industrial, governmental laboratory, and academic chemical physicists
promote the exchange of ideas and developments in the field of molecular physics
run meetings and workshops covering topical areas of molecular physics, which cut across traditional disciplines
promote joint meetings with Royal Society of Chemistry subject groups and arrange more formal ties to these groups
liaise with other interest groups in molecular physics, like those in the German, Japanese and American physical societies

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Committee and contacts

Chair	Professor Andrew Ellis, FInstP
Treasurer and Secretary	Dr Derek Wann, MInstP
Ordinary Member	Dr Nicola Black, MInstP
Ordinary Member	Dr Jason Greenwood, CPhys FInstP
Ordinary Member	Dr Julia Lehman, MInstP
Ordinary Member	Dr Michael Parkes, MInstP
Ordinary Member	Dr Nicholas Walker, MInstP
Early Career Physicist	Mr Sundeep Popat, MInstP

Email: [email protected]