Simon J. Bending

Simon John Bending, (born 29 October 1957) is a British physicist. He is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath, where he was the Head of department from 2013 to 2016. He is co-director of the Bath-Exeter Centre for Graphene Science and deputy director of the Bath-Bristol EPRSC Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics. He developed scanning Hall probe microscopy in South Weald, from 1962 to 1969 and then King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford from 1969 to 1976. In 1979, he graduated B.A. Hons (1st. class) in Natural Sciences - Physics from the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD in 1985, from the Applied Physics Department at Stanford University. Highlights of his work include studies of vortex matter in highly anisotropic superconductors, ferromagnetic superconductors, ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures, domain wall phenomena and dynamics in ferromagnetic thin films and the realisation of novel hybrid material structures by electrocrystallisation. More recently the focus of Bending's research has shifted to new physics in two-dimensional crystals, e.g., graphene and other layered (super)conductors.

Awards and recognition Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics. 2002, Mott Prize Lecture at the European Physical Society Condensed Matter meeting, Brighton. 1999, Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship 1990, Joint winner of the Philip Morris Prize for Information Technology and Communications, Münich, Germany. 1984, IBM Student Fellowship at Stanford University, California.