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Professor Ian Thompson
Director of the Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics and of the Southern Centre for Nuclear Physics, MSc(Massey, NZ), PhD (Auckland, NZ), FInstP, CPhys
Professor of Physics
Short biography: Ian Thompson has been a member of the Nuclear Physics Group, having joined the staff of the University of Surrey in 1988. In 2002 he becomes the Director of the new Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics. Research Interests: Ian's speciality is the use of few-body theories to model the structure of nuclei, and to understand the dynamical reaction processes when atomic nuclei collide. He is especially interested in the quantum mechanical and associated computational modelling of collisions of nucleons, loosely bound composite and unstable (neutron or proton rich) nuclear systems, their scattering and breakup. He, with other Group members is pursuing research directed toward the greater understanding of nuclear properties provided by the use of high-intensity radioactive beams of exotic combinations of neutrons and protons. Research Collaborations: Ian is part of the Russian-Nordic-British Theory (RNBT) collaboration on the theory of radioactive nuclear beams, and also works extensively with theoretical and/or experimental physicists at Surrey, in the USA and in Europe. Further details can be found on my personal web page.
A full list of publications, conference presentations, and patents can be found
here. Teaching:
Level 1 Mathematics
Level 2 Computer Physics Teaching Laboratory, Spring Projects
Level 2 Discrete Event Simulation Departmental Duties:
Examinations Officer
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