Neil F. Johnson
Neil Johnson | |
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| Born | 1961 Universidad de Los Andes University of Miami |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Ehrenreich |
| Doctoral students | Alexandra Olaya-Castro |
Neil Fraser Johnson (born 1961) is an English physicist who is notable for his work in
Washington D.C.
where he heads up a new initiative in Complexity and Data Science which combines cross-disciplinary fundamental research with data science, with a view to resolving complex real-world problems.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and is the recipient of the 2018 Burton Award from the APS.[1]
He presented the
Education and career
He attended
Kennedy Scholar
where he received his PhD in 1989.
Following his PhD, he was first appointed as a Research Fellow at the
Bogota. He was then Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford until 2007, having joined the faculty in 1992. After a period as Professor of Physics at the University of Miami in Florida, he was appointed Professor of Physics at George Washington University
in 2018.
While a student at school and university, Johnson was a sax player with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) in the U.K. and toured extensively with them. He appears on a number of commercial recordings with NYJO and with other artists as a session musician.[5]
Selected publications
- Johnson, Neil F.; Jefferies, Paul; Hui, Pak Ming (2003). Financial Market Complexity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852665-2.
- Olaya-Castro, Alexandra; Fassioli Olsen, Francesca; Lee, Chiu Fan; Johnson, Neil F. (2008). "Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Photosynthesis". In Derek Abbott; Paul C W Davies; Arun K Pati (eds.). ISBN 978-1848162532.
- Johnson, Neil F. (2009). Simply Complexity, A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 978-1851686308.
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