Professor Andrew P Mackenzie

Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Andy Mackenzie is Director of the Physics of Quantum Materials department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany, and Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of St Andrews.  He did his BSc at the University of Edinburgh, and PhD at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1991.  Following a Newton Trust post-doctoral fellowship, combined with the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellowship at Darwin College Cambridge, he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Cambridge (1993-97), Birmingham (1997-2001, combined with Readership) and St Andrews (2001, combined with Professorship).  He moved to Germany in 2013, combining his position in Dresden with his St Andrews Professorship.  He received the Mott Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2011, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society.  His research interests are mainly on unconventional superconductivity and ultra-high purity metallic oxides.