Mike Payne (physicist)

Mike Payne Condensed matter theory
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	John C. Inkson

Michael Christopher Payne

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He is the creator of first principles total energy pseudopotential code CASTEP^[1] and has been involved in the development of the linear scaling code ONETEP.^[2] He was the 23rd most highly cited Physical Scientist in the UK between 1990 and 1999, and has published more than 250 papers which have had over 22,000 citations.^[3]

He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge as an undergraduate and PhD student. He then spent a year in John Joannopoulos's group in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before returning to Pembroke College as a Research Fellow, and to the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) group in the Cavendish Laboratory where he had earlier completed his PhD. He became a University Lecturer in 1994, a Reader in 1998 and a Professor in 2000.^[4] In 2019 he became the first holder of the Ray Dolby Fellowship in Physics at Pembroke College.^[5]

He was awarded the 1996

He succeeded Peter Littlewood as Head of the TCM group in the Cavendish Laboratory, a post he held until 2013 when he was succeeded by Benjamin Simons.

References

External links

• Mike Payne, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.