Prof. Damian Hampshire

Professor Damian Hampshire is Head of a small Superconductivity Group in the Physics Department in Durham University, England, supervising 5 PhD students with 1 Senior Scientist. Hampshire gives 3 or 4 talks/lectures at International conferences, companies and Universities, and ~25 lectures and ~40  classes to ~300 physics students per year.  He is co-author on ~ 150 papers in refereed journals and several patents. He’s supervised > 50 Masters students, > 25 Ph.D students, > 10 post-doctoral scientists, and has been external examiner for > 10 PhD students.  He’s currently a member of the IoP Fellows panel (F. Inst. P.), the EPSRC peer review panel, the Executive board for the UK CDT in fusion, the International advisory Board for MEM workshops, and the Executive board of the British Cryogenics Council (ex-chair). He’s been PI for > £5M in grants; PI for the European ITER Reference Laboratory for Fusion Energy; Chairman of the International Programme Committee for EuCAS19 (Glasgow); Editor-in-chief of the IoP journal Super. Sci. and Techn. (2006-2013) and founding Director of the Centre for Materials Physics in Durham (2010). 

Some research highlights: [i]  Jack Greenwood and Damian P. Hampshire, “Critical current density measurements in high-field superconductors described using wave-particle duality” Supercond. Sci. Technol. 39 045016, April 2026. [ii] M. J. Raine, T Boutboul, P. Readman and D. P. Hampshire, “Large quantity measurements and statistical analysis of the European strand verification results for ITER”  Supercond. Sci. Technol. 38 085015, August 2025. [iii]  D. P Hampshire A derivation of Maxwell’s equations using the Heaviside notation. Phil. Trans. Royal. Society. A 20170447 (2018). > 45K views.