Emeritus Professor
Department of Physics
University of Oxford
Email: douglas.abraham@gmail.com
Douglas Abraham is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai. He is also Emeritus Professor of Statistical Mechanics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College. He holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge and a DS.c. from Oxford.
Professor Abraham’s research interests are Mathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, and Exactly Solvable Models. His work has appeared in Physical Review Letters, European Physics Letters, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Physical Review, and Journal of Statistical Physics.
Professor Abraham has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, a Marie Curie Professor of the EU, and a Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley. He also served on the selection panel in Basic Sciences for the Premios in “Frontiers of Knowledge” of the Fundación BBVA, Madrid.
Research Interests
Exact and rigorous results in Statistical Mechanics
Thermal Casimir interactions
Thermal Failure of nano-wires and associated quasi one-dimensional systems
Quantum mechanics of one-dimensional arrays of chromophores
Extremely long-ranged signaling in networks
Exact solution of planar Ising model and related topics
Education
DSc, Applied Maths
Oxford, 1987
PhD, Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
Cambridge, 1968
BA/MA, Natural Sciences Tripos
Cambridge, 1964/68