David Sherrington - Curriculum Vitae#
Place of birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Nationality: British
Secondary education:
- St Mary’s College, Middlesbrough
University education:
- University of Manchester;
- B.Sc. (1st class Hons. Physics 1962);
- Dip.Adv.Stud.Sci (Theoretical Physics, Distinction 1963)
- Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics 1966)
Professional Fellowships:
- Fellow of Institute of Physics 1974
- Fellow of American Physical Society 1985
- Fellow of Royal Society 1994
- Fellow of European Academy of Sciences 2008
Recent prizes:
- Dirac Medal & Prize (IOP) 2007 (premier in theoretical physics)
- Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics, Eur.Acad. Sci. 2010
Prize Lecture:
- Royal Society Bakerian 2001 (premier in physical sciences)
- Recent Special Lectures: Scott Lectures (Cambridge) 2009 (very prestigious, previous 5 lecturers all Nobel Laureates)
- Univ. Manchester (Asst. Lecturer, Lecturer 1964-69)
- Univ. California, San Diego (Asst. Res. Phys.1967-69)
- Imperial College, London (Lect., Reader, Professor 67-89)
- Univ. Oxford (Wykeham Prof Phys 1989-2008, Head Theo.Phys, 1989- 2004)
- External Professor, Santa Fe Institute (2004- )
Professional appointments:
- IBM Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Hts., USA 1975
- Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France 1976, 77-79
- Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT, USA 1985
- Los Alamos National Lab., USA (Ulam Scholar) 1995-96
- Chairman, Physics Division, European Academy of Sciences 2010-
Journal editor:
- Communications on Physics (founding co-editor 1975-77)
- Advances in Physics (Editor 1981-) ISI Impact Factor 21.214 (4/368 all physics worldwide)
- Journal of Physics A: Math & Gen. (1989-93)
Book series editor:
- Oxford Monographs in Physics (Joint editor 1995-)
- Delegate: Oxford University Press 2001- 2006
- Sub-Warden, New College Oxford 2006-7
- International chairman, several EU, ESF and RS networks.
- Co-Director, several NATO ASI
