ProfessorJoao Magueijo
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Professor of PhysicsDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
João Magueijo was born in Évora, Portugal, in 1967. He got a PhD in
Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in 1993, following which he
became a Research Fellow at St. John's College, specializing in Early Universe
Cosmology. Since 1996 he has been at Imperial College, first as a Royal
Society Fellow, then as staff, becoming a Full Professor in 2006. His work
includes an attempt to build cosmology upon theories permitting the variation
of the fundamental constants of nature, including the speed of light.
More recently he has worked on quantum gravity theories, and how cosmology
may be used as their "test tube". He has written two popular science books,
a travelogue and a novel.
DEGREES
- BA PhysicsUniversity of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalOct 1985 - Jul 1989
- Part III MathsUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomOct 1989 - Jun 1990
- PhDUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomOct 1990 - Sep 1993
LANGUAGES
- PortugueseCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- ItalianCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- FrenchCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
FACULTY
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Physics