Rate My Professor Nick Dorey

Professor Nick Dorey is Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a position he has held since 2007. He earned a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Physics from the University of Edinburgh in 1991. His career at Cambridge includes roles as Reader of Theoretical Physics from 2005 to 2007, Lecturer in High Energy Physics from 2004 to 2005, and PPARC/STFC Senior Research Fellow from 2004 to 2007. Previously, he served as University Reader in the Physics Department at the University of Wales Swansea from 1998 to 2004. Dorey is a Fellow and College Lecturer at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He currently heads DAMTP and serves on the Management Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute. In 2003, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for his contributions to mathematical physics.

As a member of the DAMTP High Energy Physics research group, Dorey's work centers on gauge field theories and string theory, with particular emphasis on supersymmetric gauge theories and their duality properties. His recent research investigates the emergence of integrability in both gauge theories and string theories in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Notable publications include 'On the singularities of the magnon S-matrix' (Phys. Rev. D 76, 2007, with Hofman and Maldacena), 'Dyonic giant magnons' (JHEP 0609, 2006, with Chen and Okamura), 'Magnon bound states and the AdS/CFT correspondence' (J. Phys. A 39, 2006), 'The calculus of many instantons' (Phys. Rept. 371, 2002, with Hollowood, Khoze, and Mattis), 'Factorisation of 3d N=4 twisted indices and the geometry of vortex moduli space' (JHEP, 2020, with Crew and Zhang), and 'ADHM and the 4d quantum Hall effect' (JHEP, 2018, with Barns-Graham, Lohitsiri, Tong, and Turner). He teaches String Theory in Part III Mathematics, Electrodynamics in Part II, and supervises PhD students. Dorey has given public lectures, including 'What is quantum field theory?' to the Cambridge University Mathematical Society.