The nine members of the panel are as follows.
Professor Bill Wakeham (Chair, University of Southampton)
Bill Wakeham has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton since October 2001. His research fields are thermophysical properties of fluids, intermolecular forces, and thermodynamics.
Professor Sir Mike Brady (University of Oxford)
Mike Brady is BP Professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science as well as a Fellow of Keble College in the University of Oxford. During his time in Oxford he and his colleagues have established the Robotics Research Laboratory and, more recently, as his research interests shifted to Medical Image Analysis and minimally-invasive surgery, he and Alison Noble have established the Medical Vision Laboratory (MVL).
Dr Jørgan Kjems (Technical University of Denmark)
Jørgan Kjems is currently Head of Department at the Technical University of Denmark. Until very recently he was director of Risoe, the national laboratory of Denmark. Dr Kjems also chairs the ESFRI working group on Physical Sciences and Engineering.
Professor Donal Bradley (Imperial College London)
Donal Bradley is the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of the Department of Physics (the Blackett Laboratory) at Imperial College London. Professor Bradley's research focuses on the physics and application of molecular electronic materials and devices.
Professor Martin Barstow (University of Leicester)
Martin Barstow is Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science, and is Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. His research interests are in X-ray, EUV, UV and optical studies of white dwarf stars, including the numerical modelling of their atmospheres and the development of UV, EUV and X-ray instrumentation for their study.
Professor Sir Richard Friend (University of Cambridge)
Sir Richard Friend is Cavendish Professor of Physics and a member of the Optoelectronics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. His principal research interests include conjugated polymers, time-resolved optical spectroscopy, and molecular conductors and magnets.
Professor Carlos Frenk (University of Durham)
Carlos S. Frenk is Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University. His research interests span cosmology, large-scale structure, galaxy formation and supercomputer simulations of the formation of cosmic structures.
Professor Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)
Christine Davies has been at the University of Glasgow since 1986. Her research interests are mainly in the phenomenology of the strong interaction described by a theory called Quantum Chromodynamics.
Professor Richard Peltier (University of Toronto)
Richard Peltier is Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he is also Director of the Centre for Global Change Science. His research interests cover atmospheric and oceanic waves and turbulence, geophysical fluid dynamics, physics of the planetary interior, and planetary climate.
The panel will be meeting at the end of February to finalise how the review will take evidence from the community. Factual information concerning inputs to and output from activities in physics are being accumulated to inform that meeting. The review recognises the importance of ensuring that all parties are able to feed in their views, and it is proposed that academic departments, through their universities, as well as learned societies be invited to make detailed written submissions to the review.
Furthermore, representatives from the discipline will be invited to attend the panel's evidence gathering sessions at the end of June. It is also expected there will be meetings with Funding Councils.