[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.

[6] 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.

[7] 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.