James Stirling (physicist)
| James Stirling | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 4, 1953 Belfast |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge University |
| Awards | Smith's Prize (1978) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions |
Durham University CERN Cambridge University University of Washington |
| Thesis | Deep inelastic processes in asymptotically free theories (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Polkinghorne |
William James Stirling CBE, FRS, FInstP (born 4 February 1953) is the first Provost of Imperial College London. He was appointed to this role in August 2013.
He was born in Belfast and grew up in Glengormley, Co. Antrim, attending first Glengormley Primary School and then Belfast Royal Academy. He was admitted as an undergraduate to Peterhouse, Cambridge University, in 1972, taking a First in Part IB and Part II of the Mathematical Tripos and a Distinction in Part III. He graduated BA in 1975, and continued at Peterhouse to take a PhD (1979) in Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He won a Smith's Prize for Mathematics in 1978.
After periods of research in the USA, Cambridge and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Stirling was appointed to a lectureship at Durham University in 1986. In 2000 he became the first Director of the University's new Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), which together with the Institute for Computational Cosmology, forms part of the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics.
From 2001 to 2003, he served as the first Chair of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Science Committee, the research council's top-level scientific advisory committee. He was a member of the Physics Sub-Panel in two Research Assessment Exercises (2001 and 2008) and was Deputy Chair of the 2008 panel.
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