Professor Mark Dennis

• PhD Theoretical Physics, University of Bristol
• MSci Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of St Andrews

His research is primarily in the physics of waves (optical, electromagnetic, quantum, …), and how geometry and topology may be used to understand and control their propagation and scattering.

Particular interests include singular optics and structured light (optical vortices, optical angular momentum, polarization singularities), and applied topology in physics (especially applications of knot theory in optics, quantum mechanics and molecular biology).

He has published over 100 research papers, proceedings, reviews, and book chapters, working with various other theorists and experimentalists around the world.

Mark regularly supervises PhD students working in a wide range of topics in Theoretical Physics.  Please see his personal page for further details of projects.

• Structured light and singular optics (optical vortices, knotted fields, superoscillation, beam shifts, ray-based semiclassics)
• Applied knot theory (geometry and topology of knots, links, braids and ribbons, especially manifested in knotted fields and bio-molecules)
• Statistical geometry and topology of random functions, and applications in quantum chaos, statistical optics and cosmology
• Applied topology (including skyrmionics, computational geometry and topology)

• Editorial Board for JPhys Photonics (2018-)
• Editorial Board for Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2014-)