Our Members
The Institute of Physics has a fascinating and diverse membership that ranges from university students through qualified professionals in all disciplines to the still interested and involved retired community.
Here is a series of profiles of our members who have followed a wide variety of routes to enjoy their current fulfilling and exciting careers – and who knows where they might go next!
We hope these profiles will help demonstrate the amazing number of career choices that a degree in physics opens up to you, and that you are inspired by what others have done and achieved. These profiles will be added to and updated periodically, showing other interesting career paths that our members have followed.
Professor Janice Barton, Professor of Experimental Mechanics
"I think of myself as a physicist, " says Prof Janice Barton, professor of experimental mechanics in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton ...
Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief
"I got absolutely gripped by astronomy as a seven year old after I was given a book about the stars," recalls Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, and Fellow of both the IOP and the Royal Astronomical Society ...
Dr Natalia Martsinovich, Research Assistant
"My research is on the border between chemistry and physics," says Dr Natalia Martsinovich, a Research Associate in physical chemistry at King's College London, and an Associate member of the IOP ...
Diarmaid Mac Mathúna, Video Producer
"I had a very enthusiastic physics teacher at secondary school," says Diarmaid Mac Mathúna, head of production at Dublin-based independent TV company Agtel ...
Dr Axel Ekani Nkodo, Research Manager
"The group I work in looks at what kinds of materials could be used in hair care products to deliver benefits like softness and shine to consumers," says physicist Dr Axel Ekani Nkodo, Research Manager for the Hair Care Group at Unilever ...
Una O'Connor, Medical Physicist
"I'd definitely encourage people to enter medical physics if they are interested in using physics for a practical application ..."
Dr Graeme Reid, Government Advisor
"I advise Ministers on Government policy and spending on scientific research, and also on how to get the highest possible economic impact from that research," says Dr Graeme Reid, physicist, engineer, and Fellow of the IOP ...
Alexander Robinson, Physics Student
Undergraduate physics student Xander Robinson can clearly remember the day that ignited his interest in physics. "I was twelve years old and had stayed over at my friend's house. In the morning I got chatting about quantum physics to his older brother ...
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