Phil King
Positions and Education
2018-date
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2016-2018
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2013-2016
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2013-2022
2011-2013
2009-2011
2009
2005
Professor of Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK
Reader in Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK
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Lecturer in Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK
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​Royal Society University Research Fellow
Kavli Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell University, USA
(with Kyle Shen and Darrell Schlom)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK
(with Felix Baumberger)
Ph.D., University of Warwick, UK (with Chris McConville)
M.Phys., University of Oxford, UK
Selected Awards and Honours
2017
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2015
​2013-2021
2013
2013
2012-2014
2011
2009
2005
Starting Grantee of the European Research Council
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Philip Leverhulme Prize, The Leverhulme Trust, UK
Royal Society University Research Fellowship
C R Burch Prize and British Vacuum Council medal
Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)
Kavli research fellowship, Cornell University, USA
EPSRC-funded ‘Rising Star Fellowship’, University of St Andrews, UK
The Roy Prize of the Institute of Physics, UK
The Physics Prize , University of Oxford, UK