Professor Bruce Joyce FRS

Bruce A. Joyce was Emeritus Professor of Physics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London. Previously, he was Professor of Semiconductor Materials in the Department of Physics, having been Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Semiconductor Materials from 1988 to 1998. His research interests included the physics and chemistry of semiconductor surfaces and reduced dimensionality structures. In the course of this work, he published some 360 papers.


He joined Plessey Company’s Allen Clark Research Centre in 1958, before moving to Philips Research Laboratories in 1969. He subsequently held visiting professorships at Imperial and the universities of Sussex and Liverpool, and was a Wolfson Industrial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.


Bruce received the Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the IBM (Europe) Science and Technology Prize for his work on molecular beam epitaxy. He served many committees and the editorial boards of international journals, and was President of the British Association for Crystal Growth, receiving honorary membership. In 1973, he was elected Fellow of the IOP.

Professor Bruce Joyce FRS died on 22 February 2023,

Professional position

  • Emeritus Professor of Physics, Imperial College London

Subject groups

  • Engineering and Materials Science

    Materials science (incl materials engineering), Engineering, semiconductors

  • Astronomy and Physics

    Semi-conductors, Condensed matter incl softmatter, liquids, nano-materials

Professor Bruce Joyce FRS
Elected 2000
Committees Participated Role
Armourers & Brasiers' Company Prize Committee January 2010 - December 2015 Member
Research Appointment Panel A(i) January 2007 - December 2010 Member
Physical Sciences Awards Committee January 2005 - December 2007 Member
Sectional Committee 4: Engineering and Materials Science December 2001 - November 2004 Member