The University of Warwick
Founded in 1965, the University of Warwick is a distinctive and successful British university combining a “can-do” entrepreneurial spirit with a commitment to absolute academic excellence.

Warwick employs nearly 5,000 members of staff, of whom 1,750 are academic and research staff spread across 28 academic departments and 30 research centres. The University of Warwick has a total student population of 19,000 of whom approximately 12,500 are undergraduates and 6,500 are postgraduates. The University is an international and cosmopolitan body which is committed to tackling major global problems through research and teaching. Many of Warwick’s staff originate or were educated overseas and almost a third of the total student population comes from over 120 countries outside of the UK.

The University’s main campus, located on a site of over 290 hectares spanning the south west boundary of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire has an open and pleasant outlook. The campus offers excellent sporting facilities, including a swimming pool, a fitness suite, a climbing wall, an indoor tennis centre, an all-weather running track and acres of football and rugby pitches. The renowned Warwick Arts Centre is one of the largest outside London with the Mead Gallery showing visiting collections of contemporary art, a concert hall, two theatres and a cinema. The 1,500 seat Butterworth Hall reopened in Autumn 2009 following a £6.9M redevelopment. The University also has a campus based at Wellesbourne and facilities at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. The University continues to invest heavily in its campus infrastructure and environment and recent investments include a multi-million pound extension and redevelopment of the Students’ Union building, a new Clinical Trials Unit for Warwick Medical School, a £2M refit of Chemistry teaching labs, and a new £24M Analytical Sciences facility for the Chemistry and Physics departments.

The University of Warwick is ideally placed for easy access to London (one hour on the train), close to the picturesque towns of Warwick, Kenilworth and Leamington Spa and about 45 minutes from the centre of Birmingham. Immediately to the south of the main campus is rural Warwickshire and both Shakespeare's Stratford and the Cotswolds are just 30 minutes away.

Further details about the University of Warwick can be found at http://www.warwick.ac.uk

Physics and Chemistry at Warwick
Warwick Physics is home to 55 research active academic staff together with a similar number of Research Assistants and strong Technical Support. There are five research themes within the department including Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics. The annual intake to undergraduate Physics courses at Warwick is 175, and the Postgraduate Research Student population is 150. Warwick Chemistry is home to 41 Academic Staff and the number of PhD Students, Post-docs and Senior Research Staff total approximately 220. In chemistry at Warwick research, and research-led teaching, spans the full range of traditional sub-disciplines as well as several exciting interdisciplinary themes. The undergraduate intake to Chemistry is 130 - 140 per academic year.

Both Physics and Chemistry are actively engaged in multidisciplinary research programmes across the Warwick campus and with other universities, research institutes and industry both nationally and internationally. The University continues to invest heavily in both the Physics and Chemistry departments. Magnetic Resonance is one of the major strategic investment priorities for the University, and has an extensive range of spectrometers for NMR, EPR and DNP, many housed in the Millburn House Centre for Magnetic Resonance. This centre hosts the UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR facility coordinates the EPSRC-funded Integrated Magnetic Resonance Centre for Doctoral Training and is at the heart of a number of national and international research collaborations.