Prof. Phil King
Group leader
Interested in the nature of electronic interactions and spin-orbit coupling in 2D and quantum materials. Group leader of the Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials group and co-director of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials.
Positions and Education
- 2025–date
- Director of Research
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK - 2018–date
- Professor of Physics
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK - 2016–2018
- Reader in Physics
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK - 2013–2016
- Lecturer in Physics
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK - 2013–2022
- Royal Society University Research Fellow
- 2011–2013
- Kavli Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell University, USA
with Kyle Shen and Darrell Schlom - 2009–2011
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK
with Felix Baumberger - 2009
- Ph.D., University of Warwick, UK
with Chris McConville - 2005
- M.Phys., University of Oxford, UK
Selected Awards and Honours
- 2017
- Starting Grantee of the European Research Council
- 2015
- Philip Leverhulme Prize, The Leverhulme Trust, UK
- 2013–2021
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 2013
- C R Burch Prize and British Vacuum Council medal
- 2013
- Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- 2012–2014
- Kavli research fellowship, Cornell University, USA
- 2009
- The Roy Prize of the Institute of Physics, UK
- 2005
- The Physics Prize, University of Oxford, UK
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