Andrew Briggs#
| Membership Number: | 3143 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/briggs.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003- Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 2002-2009 Director, Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, (QIP IRC) and EPSRC Professorial Research Fellow
- 2002- Professorial Fellow, St Anne’s College, Oxford
- 2002- Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford
- 1999-2002 Professor of Materials, University of Oxford
- 1996-1999 Reader in Materials, University of Oxford
- 1984-2002 Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 1984-1996 Lecturer in Metallurgy and Science of Materials, University of Oxford
- 1983-1984 Royal Society Research Fellow in the Physical Sciences
- 1982-1984 Research Associate, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
- 1981-1993 Lecturer in Physics, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
- 1980-1982 Oxford University, Department of Metallurgy, Research Fellow
- 1979 Cambridge University, Engineering Department, Research Assistant
- 1971-1973 Canford School, Dorset (Physics and RE, House Tutor)
- 1968 Glanzstoff A.G., Germany (Praktikant)
Fields of Scholarship
- Scanning acoustic microscopy
- Scanned probe microscopy techniques
- Mechanical and structural properties of surfaces
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Holliday Prize, Institute of Metals
- 1994 Buehler Technical Paper Merit Award for Excellence
- 1999 Metrology for World Class Manufacturing Awards: Winner (with Dr O.V. Kolosov), Category 1, Frontier Science and Measurement
- 1999 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society
- 2007 Oxfordshire Science Writing Competition, 2nd Prize
