Professor Andy Schofield FInstP
Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2020
Preceded by	Mark E. Smith
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences University of Birmingham
In office 2015–2020
Preceded by	Richard Williams
Personal details
Nationality	British
Salary	£235,000 (2021–22)[1]
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Birmingham University of Cambridge Rutgers University
Doctoral advisor	Joseph M. Wheatley[2]

Andrew John Schofield (better known as Andy Schofield) is an academic and administrator who is the Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University.^[3] A theoretical physicist, he was previously a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham and Head of its College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. As an academic, his research focus is in the theory of correlated quantum systems, in particular non-Fermi liquids, quantum criticality and high-temperature superconductivity.^[4][5]

Biography

Andy Schofield was educated at Whitgift School before reading Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. In 1993, he obtained his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and won a College Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius.^[5] He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers, New Jersey before his return to Cambridge as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.^[6] He joined the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in 1999, became the Head of School in 2010, and was promoted in 2015 to Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of EPS.^[7] In May 2020, Andy became the Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University.^[8]

Awards

• The Schuldham Plate (1989), Gonville and Caius.^[5]
• Maxwell Medal and Prize (2002)^[9] for work on the emergent properties of correlated electrons.^[5]
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2002).^[5]