Sam Crawford is a mathematical physicist currently studying for a Master’s at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He has a strong passion for teaching as well as learning and has given many hours of tutorials throughout his undergraduate studies. On the mathematics side, he is most interested in differential geometry, the study of smooth shapes and their properties (usually in 4 dimensions!). This ties in heavily with his interests within physics, which focus on understanding our most fundamental theories of nature: quantum field theory and general relativity.

Sandy is a D.Phil candidate in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Oxford. His work is a study of the electronic structure of novel quantum matter by Angular Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy, or the ARPES technique. His previous work involved research into new materials, including topological materials, graphene, nanoribbons, and organic LED lights.

Dr. David Cole obtained his PhD from the University of Leicester in 2012 after a career in high technology where he worked for a number of technology start-ups and software engineering companies. Since then he has carried out research on the nature of dark matter and the formation of galaxies at the University of Central Lancashire and most recently at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics where he worked on developing dynamical models of our Galaxy to compare to observations made by the space telescope Gaia. He has taught physics at undergraduate level at all the instututions he has worked at and developed and delivered a new maths lecture course at the University of Central Lancashire.