Professor John Cardy
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
BA, MA, PhD, FRS
Emeritus Fellow since 2014
I am a theoretical physicist who applies the methods of quantum field theory to problems in statistical and condensed matter physics. In the past I helped develop the tools of conformal field theory which had applications also to string theory and black holes. In recent years I have investigated questions of quantum entanglement and non-equilibrium behaviour in many-body systems such as quantum spin chains and ultra-cold atoms.
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2014)
- Professor of Physics, University of Oxford (from 1993 to 2014)
- Honorary Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge (from 2012)
- Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (from 1974 to 1993)
- Research Associate, Daresbury Laboratory (from 1973 to 1974)
- European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Geneva (from 1971 to 1973)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1965 to 1971)
- Theoretical physics: critical phenomena and quantum field theory
- Advisory board member for various scholarly journals
- External committee member for various international scientific institutes
- Graduate lectures in theoretical physics