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Prof David Bowler
Professor of Physics
Dept of Physics & Astronomy
Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Jul 1998
Research summary
My research is split into two themes: development of novel computational approaches to electronic structure; and modelling of semiconductor systems using these techniques. In recent years I have also become interested in apply electronic structure techniques to biological systems.
Education
- University College London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE Part 1 | 2006
- University of Oxford
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1997
- University of Cambridge
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 1995
- University of Cambridge
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | 1991
Biography
I studied Natural Science at Clare College, Cambridge, reading Physics & Theoretical Physics in my final year. After a year's voluntary work, I spent two years working as a device physicist in a small industrial company specialising in modelling field effect transistors in GaAs. I then moved to the Department of Materials in Oxford University for my D. Phil.
After a year at Keele University, I moved to UCL in the summer of 1998 as a PDRA. I am now a Royal Society Research Fellow and Reader in Physics, working on electronic structure modelling of semiconductor surfaces, particularly one dimensional structures on these surfaces. I am also actively engaged in developing new techniques, at the moment looking at accurate modelling of large systems and non-adiabatic effects in conduction of nanostructures.
