{"id":234,"date":"2020-01-06T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.am.qub.ac.uk\/wp\/antimatter\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:51:24","slug":"dermot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/dermot\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dermot Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dermot is (full\/chaired) Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chemistry. He directs a research group at Queen\u2019s University Belfast, which is & has been funded by the European Research Council [Consolidator Grant “ANTIMATTER” 2025-2030; Starting Grant \u201cANTI-ATOM\u201d 2019-2024] and EPSRC [Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, 2015-2019]. See below for a brief CV.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Office 01.007 Old Physics (Lanyon Building)
Centre for Light-Matter Interactions
School of Mathematics and Physics
Queen\u2019s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

d.green [AT] qub.ac.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office Telephone:
UK: 028 90 97 1928
Intl: +44 28 90 97 1928<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brief CV<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Born August 1985. Obtained PhD 15 December 2011. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 \u2014<\/span><\/strong> present<\/strong> (Full\/Chaired) Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chemistry, Queen\u2019s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
2018 \u2014<\/span><\/strong> 2025<\/strong>   Reade<\/a>r in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Queen\u2019s University Belfast.
2025 — 2030<\/strong> European Research Council Consolidator Grant “ANTIMATTER” (\u20ac2M). Principal investigator and research group director.
2019 — 20<\/span>24<\/strong> European Research Council Starting Grant “ANTI-ATOM” (\u20ac1.32). Principal investigator and research group director.
2015 — 2019  <\/span><\/strong>EPSRC Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
2013 — 2015  <\/strong>Research associate in the ultracold theory group of Jeremy Hutson FRS and (the first) Junior Research Fellow in the Sciences of Hatfield College, Durham University, United Kingdom.  <\/span><\/span>
2012 — 2013  <\/strong><\/span>Research Fellow, Centre for Plasma Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
2010<\/strong>  <\/span>Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Physics Department, based at the Institute of Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP), Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA. 
2008 — 2011  <\/strong><\/span>PhD, Theoretical Atomic Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
2004 — 2008<\/strong>  <\/span>1st class MPhys University of Oxford, as Theobald Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, United Kingdom, and a first-generation university student.
1997 — 2004  <\/strong><\/span>Belfast Royal Academy Grammar School, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (Non-fee-paying voluntary grammar school, the oldest in Belfast city). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected prizes, awards and research funding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/strong> The International CMOA (Centre de M\u00e9canique Ondulatoire Appliqu\u00e9e) Promising Scientist Prize (for those under 40 yrs), awarded by at The S\u00e9nat (French Parliament), Paris, France during the 27th QSCP (Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics and Biology) by Profs. Rodney Bartlett and Jean Maruani. Citation: “For scientific and human endeavours.”<\/em>
2024<\/strong>   European Research Council Consolidator Grant (EUR 2M).<\/span>
2019<\/strong>   Institute of Physics Sir David Bates prize for outstanding contributions to quantum, atomic, molecular and plasma physics.<\/a>
2018<\/strong>   Queen’s University Belfast Vice-Chancellor’s Research Prize.<\/a><\/span>
2018<\/strong>   European Research Council Starting Grant (EUR 1.32M).<\/span>
2018<\/strong>   EPSRC UK Early-Career Fellowship (~\u00a3900k, declined).<\/span>
2017<\/strong>    “ICPEAC Sheldon Datz Prize”, for outstanding young scientist in atomic physics (selected by the international committee of the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions), awarded in Sheldon Datz plenary session at ICPEAC XXX, Cairns, Australia <\/a><\/span>
2015<\/strong>   EPSRC UK Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics (\u00a3260k).
2015<\/strong>   <\/span>Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowship (declined).
2013 — 2015<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>  (The first) Junior Research Fellowship in the Sciences, Hatfield College, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.<\/span>
2010<\/strong> <\/span>  <\/span>Institute of Physics Rosse medal<\/i> for graduate research communication.
<\/span>2010<\/span><\/span><\/strong>   Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, USA, based at ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA.<\/span>
2005 — 2008<\/strong> <\/span> Theobald Scholarship, Balliol College, University of Oxford (elected by the Fellows, for academic excellence in Physics)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

High-performance computing grants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/strong> Access to ARCHER2 (UK National Supercomputer), 185,000 CU hours (notional cost = \u00a337,000)
2022<\/strong> eCSE EPSRC award (with Dr Martin Plummer and Dr Alin Elena, Daresbury Laboratory).
2021<\/strong> Access to ARCHER2 (UK National Supercomputer), 60,000 CU hours (notional cost \u00a312,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other positions of international and national leadership in science and society & other commissions of trust<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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