30 physics professors in the United Kingdom, at 14 universities. The most represented are University of Glasgow, Lancaster University and Queen Mary University of London. 3 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.
The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in the United Kingdom whose recent work sits in physics. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently physics figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.
Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmology and Gravitation TheoriesGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, PhenomenaRadio Astronomy Observations and Technology
Recent: Impact of non-Gaussian likelihood on cosmological constraints from the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich power spectrum: A simulation-based inference analysis (2026)
Physics and Astronomy · Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesHigh-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchParticle Detector Development and Performance
Universities on this list: University of Glasgow (4) · Lancaster University (3) · Queen Mary University of London (3) · University of Birmingham (3) · University of Liverpool (3) · University College London (2) · University of Edinburgh (2) · University of Oxford (2) · University of Sheffield (2) · University of Sussex (2) · Durham University (1) · University of Bristol (1) · University of Cambridge (1) · University of Manchester (1)
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