该小组融合了分子和光学物理学，涵盖了从计算材料物理学到量子有序再到软物质物理学的众多应用。凝聚态物理与材料科学以及生物和地球科学有相当多的重叠，并依赖于统计物理学和新的模拟方法学的基本发展。我们的研究关注液体和固体以及“粘弹性”材料（例如聚合物和悬浮液）之间的性能研究。我们旨在发现和表征这些材料在实验室中的行为，并从微观成分的角度了解此类行为。实验上，在环境和极端条件下，结构的确定以及静态和动态的光学，电，磁，机械和其他特性的表征需要广泛的工具。
This group incorporates molecular and optical physics, and covers a world of applications, from computational materials physics to quantum ordering to soft matter physics.<br><br>Condensed matter physics overlaps considerably with materials science, as well as biological and earth sciences, and relies on fundamental developments in statistical physics and novel simulation methodologies.<br><br>Our research is concerned with the study of liquids and solids, and viscoelastic materials (such as polymers and suspensions) with properties in between. We aim to discover and characterise the behaviour of these materials in the laboratory, and understand such behaviour in terms of the microscopic constituents.<br><br>Experimentally, the determination of structure and the characterisation of static and dynamic optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical and other properties under ambient and extreme conditions call upon a wide range of tools.