John Feather Wheater

Education Wheater was educated at St Paul's School, London and the University of Oxford, where he read Physics at Christ Church from 1976 to 1979, graduating with a first class degree and winning the Scott Prize for Physics.

Career and research Wheater was a Junior Research Fellow in theoretical physics at Christ Church during 1981–84. In 1984–85, he was a lecturer in theoretical particle physics at Durham University.

In 1985, Wheater joined the academic staff of the Department of Physics at Oxford University, initially as a lecturer. He was also a fellow of University College, Oxford, from 1985 until 2015. He was Head of the Physics Department between 2010 and 2018. In 2015, he was appointed as Professor of Physics. Wheater leads the Particle Theory Group.

During Wheater's term as Head of the Department of Physics, the new Beecroft Building in the department was initiated. It was opened in 2018 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who formerly studied physics at Oxford), in the presence of Wheater as Head of department, Professor Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford), Chris Patten (Chancellor of Oxford), and Adrian Beecroft (part-funder of the building).

In 2018–19, Wheater was invited to be a visiting professor at the QMATH-center in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Wheater's former doctoral students include Neil Ferguson,

Selected publications Wheater publications include:

Low-energy predictions from grand unified theories C.H.L. Smith, J.F. Wheater, Electroweak radiative corrections and the value of sin2θW. Physics Letters B, 1981. J.F. Wheater, C.H.L. Smith, Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino and electron scattering and the value of sin2θW. Nuclear Physics B, 1982. I.I. Kogan, N.E. Mavromatos, J.F. Wheater, D-brane recoil and logarithmic operators. Physics Letters B, 1996. P. Austing, J.F. Wheater, Convergent Yang-Mills matrix theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001.

Personal life Wheater is married with two daughters.