See my group website: https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/antimatter/dermot/

Recent Press releases:
* ERC Consolidator Award
* Representing QUB/IOP at Stormont with senior Ministers
* Hosting Keynote NISF talk at QUB

Prof Dermot Green is a full Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chemistry. He currently holds an ERC Consolidator grant (€2M, 2025-2030), and previously an ERC Starting Grant (€1.3M, 2010-2024) and an EPSRC Fellowship in Theoretical Physics (2015-2019).  He graduated 1st-class MPhys from University of Oxford (2008, Balliol College) and PhD in Theoretical Atomic Physics from Queen's Belfast (2011) and subsequently held Research Fellow positions in QUB and Durham University (with Jeremy Hutson FRS) as well as a Visiting Fellowship at ITAMP, Harvard University, USA. He was a Reader in Physics 2018-2025, and from 2025 a full Professor. 

In 2025 he was appointed by the NI Education Minister to chair the Science Group of the NI Curriculum taskforce, tasked with redesigning the NI science curriculum for 5-14 year olds (foundation stage to key stage 3). 

He is one of ~20 Council Members and Trustees of the Institute of Physics, as the sole representative of the island of Ireland, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Physics Ireland. In these roles he helps to steer physics and STEM strategy in UK and Ireland, including advising NI, ROI and Westminster government. He is a board member of the Northern Ireland Science Festival. He is a member of the ICPEAC (International Conference for Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions) and ECAMP (European Physical Society's Atomic, Molecular and Optical Division) Scientific Advisory boards, and Specialist Editor in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for the international journal Computer Physics Communications. He is a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe and is an inaugural member of the Royal Irish Academy's Young Academy of Ireland. He was previously Chair of the Institute of Physics Ireland (2022-2024), Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the International Workshop on Positron and Positronium Physics and Co-Chair of POSMOL, and Secretary of the Institute of Physics Atomic and Molecular Interactions Group.

The overarching theme of his research is describing fundamental interactions in complicated/formidable quantum many-body systems involving structured atoms and molecules. His chief interest has been in the development of theory and its computational implementation to describe antimatter (positrons and positronium) interactions with atoms, molecules and condensed matter, to provide understanding required to properly interpret fundamental experiments and antimatter-based diagnostics of industrially important materials, and to develop antimatter-based technologies including positron traps, beams and positron emission tomography.

He was awarded the 2025 international CMOA (Centre de Mechanique Ondulatoire Apliquee) Promising Scientist Prize for outstanding contributions (by those 40 and under) to quantum mechanics, presented by Professors Rodney Bartlett and Jean Maruani at The Sénat (French Parliament), Paris; the 2019 Institute of Physics Sir David Bates Prize for outstanding contributions to atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, the 2017 international ICPEAC Sheldon Datz Prize for outstanding contributions to atomic physics, and a 2018 QUB Vice-Chancellor Research Prize. 

He has directed the research of numerous Senior Research Fellows and Postdoctoral Research Fellows (>10 years full-time equivalent) and has supervised the PhD research of Dr Sarah Gregg (graduated 2025), Dr Jack Cassidy (graduated 2024), Dr Jaroslav Hofierka (graduated 2023) and Dr David Waide (graduated 2023). Current students include Tiarnan Smyth (2024-) and Taylor Scott (Oct. 2025-). He has supervised MSci masters projects in theoretical physics yearly since 2015.

Highlighted publications (see group webpage/Google Scholar for full list):

1. "Many-body theory of positron binding to polyatomic molecules"
J. Hofierka,..., D. G. Green, Nature 606, 688 (2022)

2. "Positron scattering and annihilation on H2, N2 and CH4",
C. M. Rawlins,..., D. G. Green, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 263001 (2023).

3. "Many-body theory of positronium-atom interactions"
D. G. Green, A. R. Swann and G. F. Gribakin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 183402 (2018).

4. "Positron cooling and annihilation in noble gases" 
D. G. Green, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 203403 (2017).

5. "Gamma-ray Spectra and Enhancement Factors for Positron Annihilation with Core Electrons, D. G. Green and G. F. Gribakin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 093201 (2015).

Reviews 
"Positron annihilation spectroscopy", M. Barthe, ..., D. G. Green,..., 
Nature Reviews Methods Primers, accepted, in press (2026). 

He has also contributed to the scientific leading edge of strong-field quantum electrodynamics [see e.g. D. G. Green and C. N. Harvey, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164801 (2014)], and ultracold molecule theory (atomic and molecular collisions and quantum chaos) [see e.g., D. G. Green, ... , J. M. Hutson, Phys. Rev. A 93, 022703 (2016); ibid 93, 052713 (2016)]

See my website https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/antimatter/dermot/

At QUB I am a member of Academic Council (one of 3 representatives of the School of Mathematics and Physics), a key part of the governance structure, and member of the QUB Research and Innovation Committee and of the Fellowship Academy Members Group (helping steer professional development activities for external Fellowship holders). In the School of Mathematics and Physics I am the Exam Liaison Office for Mathematics, and the International Exchange Coordinator for Mathematics. I Am Adviser of Studies for the International Students. I was previously PhD Coordinator for the Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and the Centre for Light-Matter Interactions. 

JOIN THE GROUP!

I welcome contact from motivated postdoctoral researchers or PhD students who wish to join my team: please contact me if interested.

I am a first-generation University student and will particularly welcome interest from members of under-represented groups, noting that QUB and the Institute of Physics Ireland drive diversity and inclusion initiatives.

I especially welcome contact from those interested in developing applications for externally funded fellowships to be be hosted in my group. Such Fellowships (open to international researchers at various stages post PhD, and with deadlines at various times throughout the year) include:

• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowships 
• Royal Society Newton Fellowship 
• Marie Curie individual Fellowships 
• EPSRC Fellowships
  
• Branco-Weiss Fellowships

He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) from QUB, and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.  

He lectures in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, currently to ~180 first-year students in mathematical methods (introductory calculus/analysis) and as module coordinator for BSc undegraduate projects in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He has previously lectured 3rd-year Tensor Field Theory, 3rd-year Advanced Numerical Analysis, and 4th-year Masters level Advanced Quantum Theory.

He was the recipient of a 2021 QUB Teaching Award in the "Rising Stars" Category, with citation noting his successes in delivering an "innovative, collaborative and engaging learning experience".

He is Adviser of Studies for international students. He was a member of the 2018 and 2025 Curriculum Review Working Groups for QUB Mathematics. 

He is a member of the CCEA Subject Advisory Group for Physics, critiquing and assessing the Northern Ireland Physics curriculum and assessments at primary and secondary level.  He represented Institute of Physics in contributions to the 2025 Crehan NI curriculum review.