Sarah Thompson

Sarah Madeleine Thompson MBE is a British physicist. Thompson is Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Science at the University of York. She was Head of the Department of Physics at the University of York from 2011-2017. She is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and she was Vice President of Institute of Physics (science and innovation) until 2019. Her research primarily focuses on thin film magnetic materials and nano-thermal imaging. She won an award from the Institute of Physics for the Public Awareness of Physics. Education Thompson completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at Durham University with a thesis entitled The magnetic properties of plastically deformed steels. Career and research Thompson works on magnetic thin films and spintronics at the University of York. She first arrived at the university in 1992 as a post-doctoral fellow. From 1994 to 1999, she held a EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. She was Head of the Department of Physics from 2011 to 2017.