Andy Schofield
{{short description|British physicist}}
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| office = Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
| term_start = 1 May 2020
| predecessor = Mark E. Smith
| office2 = Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Birmingham
| term_start2 = 2015
| term_end2 = 2020
| predecessor2 = Richard Williams
| salary = £235,000 (2021–22){{cite web |title=Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2022 |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/depts/finance/2022%20Lancaster%20University%20Annual%20Accounts.pdf |access-date=19 January 2023 |publisher=Lancaster University |page=41}}
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| fields = Theoretical physics
| workplaces = University of Birmingham
University of Cambridge
Rutgers University
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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.{{cite web |title=Lancaster University appoints renowned theoretical physicist as its new Vice-Chancellor |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster-university-appoints-renowned-theoretical-physicist-as-its-new-vice-chancellor |website=www.lancaster.ac.uk |publisher=Lancaster University |accessdate=22 November 2019}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.theory.bham.ac.uk/staff/schofield/research/ |title=Andy Schofield - Research Interests |website=Theoretical Physics Research Group |publisher=University of Birmingham |first=Andy |last=Schofield |accessdate=21 September 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/physics/schofield-andy.aspx |title=Professor Andy Schofield |website=University of Birmingham |accessdate=21 September 2016 |archive-date=25 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925011309/http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/physics/schofield-andy.aspx |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite news |last1=Cameron |first1=Lucinda |title=Andy Schofield appointed as Glasgow University principal |url=http://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/andy-schofield-appointed-as-glasgow-university-principal-jlr58sk80 |work=The Times |date=26 September 2024}}
Biography
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. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers, New Jersey before his return to Cambridge as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.{{cite web |url=http://physics.aps.org/authors/a_j_schofield |title=A. J. Schofield |website=Physics |publisher=American Physical Society |accessdate=21 September 2016}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2015/05/pro-vice-chancellor-appointments-19-05-15.aspx |title=University of Birmingham appoints two new Pro-Vice-Chancellors |website=University of Birmingham |date=19 May 2015 |accessdate=21 September 2016}} In May 2020, Andy became the Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University.{{cite web |title=Message from our new Vice-Chancellor |url=https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/news/article/message-from-our-new-vice-chancellor |website=portal.lancaster.ac.uk |publisher=Lancaster University |accessdate=4 May 2020}}
Awards
- The Schuldham Plate (1989), Gonville and Caius.
- Maxwell Medal and Prize (2002){{cite web |url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/career/maxwell/medallists/page_38660.html |title=Maxwell medal recipients |website=Institute of Physics |accessdate=21 September 2016}} for work on the emergent properties of correlated electrons.
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2002).
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External links
- [http://www.theory.bham.ac.uk/staff/schofield/ Staff page at Theoretical Physics Research Group, University of Birmingham]
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Category:British theoretical physicists
Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham
Category:Maxwell Medal and Prize recipients