- Stephen Blundell
Stephen Blundell is a Professor of
Physics at theUniversity of Oxford . He is also a Professorial Fellow ofMansfield College , Oxford. His research is concerned with using muon-spin rotation and magnetoresistance techniques to study a range of organic and inorganic materials, particularly those showing interesting magnetic, superconducting, or dynamical properties.Stephen Blundell completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the
University of Cambridge attendingPeterhouse for his Undergraduate Degree inPhysics andTheoretical Physics and doing his Ph.D. at theCavendish Laboratory . He was subsequently offered a SERC research fellowship which involved a move to theClarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, he was later awarded a Junior Research Fellowship atMerton College , where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation. In 1997 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Oxford Physics Department and a Tutorial Fellowship atMansfield College , and was subsequently promoted to Reader and then Professor. He was a joint winner of theDaiwa Adrian Prize in 1999 for his work on organic magnets. [Oxford University Press [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/Thermodynamics/?view=usa&ci=9780198567707] ]Professor Blundell is also involved in teaching for the Honour School of Physics - including running two undergraduate lecture courses on Thermal and Statistical Physics, and tutoring second, third and fourth year undergrads. He has also authored two text books. The first being "Magnetism in Condensed Matter" which covers the quantum mechanical nature of magnetism. Most recently he has co-authored, with his wife and colleague Dr Katherine Blundell of
St. John's College, Oxford , a text book entitled "Concepts in Thermal Physics". It provides an introduction to the topics of thermal physics and statistical mechanics covered in a typical Undergraduate course in Physics.He was recently interviewed in "Physics World" saying;
"Ultimately your marriage is more important than your career" [Physics World [http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/14/10/10] ]
He has put his name to over 200 articles ranging right across the world of
Solid State Physics [ [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjb/publications14.html Publications ] ] .He lives in Oxford with his wife.
External links
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjb/ Professor Blundell's home page]
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