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Dr Angela Dyson

Director of Physics

  • Address: 2.09 Herschel Annex,
    School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU, UK
Background

Introduction

I am currently the Director of Physics. I did my BSc in Theoretical Physics at Essex University where I was a student parent. I stayed on for my PhD in Laser plasma interactions via computer simulation. I moved into semiconductor physics in 2000 working with Profs Naci Balkan & Mike Adams and between 2004 - 2024 I collaborated with Prof Brian Ridley FRS.


I am a member of the Institute of Physics.

I am on the IOP History of Physics Group committee and I'm secretary of the Higher Education Group.

Current Roles

Director of Physics

Member of School Executive Board for Mathematics, Statistics & Physics.

Previous Positions

2017 - 2020 DPD Physics

2016-2017 Reader and Head of Physics & Astrophysics, Hull University

2013-2016 Senior Lecturer, Hull University

2008-2013 Lecturer, Hull University


Research

My broad research area is semiconductors and devices with a particular emphasis on phonons and high field transport. I have an in-house developed bulk Monte-Carlo transport simulation code which includes non-equilibrium phonons. I've been interested in Gallium Nitride since 2005 for high frequency emission e.g. THz. 

Recent interests include ultra-wide bandgap materials e.g. diamond and cBN.


Research Grants

I was funded by the Office of Naval research sponsored by Dr Paul Maki under grant Nos N00014-15-1-2193 & N00014-18-1-2463 "Theory of transport in Semiconductors"


Postgraduate Supervision


Past group members

Peter Brookes Chambers - specialist technician

Dr Patrick Williams - research assistant at Durham

Dr Dan Naylor - with Opencast

Dr Lee Smith - with VISR Dynamics

Dr Luke Bradley - Consultant with ALTEN LTD

Dr Tiago Marinheiro - Lecturer at 缅北禁地.

Dr Nick Appleyard - teacher at Beverley Grammar school

Dr Martin Vaughan - Head of Data Engineering and Software Development at Glowinkowski International


Teaching
  • PHY3023 Advanced solid state physics
  • PHY1030 Stage 1 Laboratory
Publications

  • Articles

    • Dyson A, Vaughan MP. . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2025, 1-20.
    • Bradley LJ, Horsfall AB, Dyson A. . IEEE Transactions on Electron 2020, 67(10), 4099-4101.
    • Ridley BK, Dyson A. . Solid State Communications 2020, 321, 114025.
    • Dyson A, Ridley BK. . Solid State Communications 2018, 271, 81-84.
    • Naylor DR, Dyson A, Ridley BK. . Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 2017, 86, 218-224.
    • Emary C, Dyson A, Ryu S, Sim HS, Kataoka M. . Physical Review B 2016, 93(3), 035436.
    • Dyson A, Naylor DR, Ridley BK. . IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 2015, 62(11), 3613-3618.
    • Zhang JZ, Dyson A, Ridley BK. . Journal of Applied Physics 2015, 117(2), 025701.

  • Note

    • Parker N, Dyson A. . Physics World 2018, 31(7), 17-17.