Professor Keith Burnett
Professor Keith Burnett CBE BA DPhil FRS FInstP, physicist and Vice-Chancellor elect of the University of Sheffield, has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship with effect from 1 October 2007.
Professor Keith Burnett is an eminent scientist whose research interests are in the areas of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Having gained his BA and DPhil in Physics at Jesus College in the early to mid-seventies, he started his academic career as a research associate at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Colorado. He then became an assistant professor in the University of Colorado's Physics Department before taking up a lecturing position at Imperial College for four years after which he moved to Oxford. He is currently the Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at Oxford, which, under his leadership, has developed a new research strategy and been awarded 12 RCUK fellowships as well as a number of Science and Innovation awards. Before taking up this position he was Chairman of Physics for almost twenty years and a Tutorial Fellow at St John's College. He was awarded a CBE for service to Physics in 2004 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. He has had extensive involvement in science policy in Britain and is currently Chairman of the International Science Advisory Committee of the UK's national laboratories. He has recently been appointed as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and he will take up this role in December 2007.
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