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Andrew John Schofield (better known as Andy Schofield) is an academic and administrator who is the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University.[3] A theoretical physicist, he was previously a pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Birmingham and head of its College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. As an academic, his research focus is in the theory of correlated quantum systems, in particular non-Fermi liquids, quantum criticality and high-temperature superconductivity.[4][5]
Andy Schofield | |
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Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University | |
Assumed office 1 May 2020 | |
Preceded by | Mark E. Smith |
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences University of Birmingham | |
In office 2015–2020 | |
Preceded by | Richard Williams |
Personal details | |
Nationality | British |
Salary | £235,000 (2021–22)[1] |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Awards | Maxwell Medal and Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | University of Birmingham University of Cambridge Rutgers University |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph M. Wheatley[2] |
In September 2024, he was announced as the 51st Principal of the University of Glasgow, and will take up the position in October 2025, taking over from Anton Muscatelli.[6]
Andy Schofield was educated at Whitgift School before reading Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. In 1993, he obtained his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and won a College Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius.[5] He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers, New Jersey before his return to Cambridge as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[7] He joined the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in 1999, became the head of school in 2010, and was promoted in 2015 to pro-vice-chancellor and head of the College of EPS.[8] In May 2020, Andy became the Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University.[9]
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