I am a Professor of Physics in Oxford University, working in the Department of Physics, and based in the Clarendon Laboratory. I am also a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. I was Head of Condensed Matter Physics from 2008-2011. I came to Oxford in 1993, first as an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, I was appointed as a University Lecturer in 1997.
My research is concerned with using muon-spin rotation and other techniques to learn about emergent phenomena in a variety of highly correlated magnetic and superconducting systems. Recently I have been developing a technique called DFT+μ for understanding muon sites and also using Oxford's Pulsed Field system to generate higher magnetic fields. I received the Yamazaki Prize in 2022 and the Lawrence Bragg Medal, a Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics, in 2024.
My home page can be found on http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjb
I am married to the other Professor Blundell.
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