- Associate Professor in Physics, University of Portsmouth
Dr Melvin M. Vopson is Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Portsmouth, founder and CEO of the Information Physics Institute. His previous appointments include two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of York, senior R&D scientist at Seagate Technology and over six years Higher Research Scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory.
Melvin's major scientific contributions are in the fields of solid state caloric effects, thin film growth technologies, multiferroic materials and their applications, optical techniques of characterisation of solids, development of novel metrologies and innovations based on ferroic materials, theoretical studies of non-equilibrium phenomena, fundamental physics, and information physics.
Melvin developed new optical techniques for characterization of solids, novel metrologies for multiferroic materials, a non-equilibrium theory of polarization reversal in ferroelectrics, and novel technologies for digital memories, including the discovery of a 4-state anti-ferroelectric memory effect, the discovery of the multicaloric effect in multiferroic materials, the discovery of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle (5th state of matter), and the discovery of the second law of infodynamics.
Experience
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2023–presentAssociate Professor of Physics, University of Portsmouth
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2012–2023Senior Lecturer in Applied Physics, University of Portsmouth
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2006–2012Higher Research Scientist, National Physical Laboratory
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2005–2006Senior R&D engineer/scientist, Seagate Technology
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2003–2005Senior postdoctoral fellow, University of York
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2002–2003Postdoctoral fellow, University of York
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1999–2002PhD student, University of Central Lancashire
Education
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2002University of Central Lancashire, Ph.D. Physics / Solid State Magnetism
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1999University of Bucharest, M.Sc. (first class) Micro-technologies and Integrated Opto-electronics
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1998University of Bucharest, B.Sc. (HONS – first class) Physics / Solid State Physics
Professional Memberships
- Institute of Physics
- Chartered Physicist
- Fellow of the IOP
- Fellow of the HEA
Honours
Fellow of the IoP (FInstP); Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA); Chartered Physicist (CPhys); CEO of the Information Physics Institute
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