Clare Burrage has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham since January 2013.

She arrived in Nottingham in November 2011 as an Anne McLaren Fellow.  Previously she held research positions at the University of Geneva and at DESY (German Electron Synchrotron).  She was awarded her PhD in 2008 from the University of Cambridge.  In 2015 she was awarded the Maxwell Medal by the Institute of Physics.  Her research aims to understand the nature of dark energy, the mysterious substance driving the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe.

Dr Clare Burrage
Committees Participated Role
Research Grants Committee: Physical Sciences January 2021 - December 2023 Member
Diversity and Inclusion Committee June 2015 - December 2017 Member
International Exchanges Committee January 2014 - December 2016 Member