title: List of University of Surrey academics
text: # List of University of Surrey academics
  
  A list of University of Surrey academics, includes those who work or have worked at the University of Surrey, including a brief description of their notability.
  
  ## Science and engineering
  
  * Alf Adams – physicist who pioneered the strained quantum-well laser
  * Jim Al-Khalili – nuclear physicist, author and broadcaster
  * Lewis Elton – physicist and researcher into higher education
  * Sir Martin Sweeting – founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
  * Allan Wells – Olympic 100m gold medalist; engineering lecturer
  * Henryk Zygalski – mathematician, cryptologist and breaker of the Enigma Machine
  
  ## Humanities and social science
  
  * Sara Arber – sociologist
  * Martyn Barrett – psychologist and lead expert for the Council of Europe's Education Policy Advisers Network
  * David Blanchflower – economist and member of the Monetary Policy Committee
  * Dame Glynis Breakwell – psychologist
  * Marie Breen Smyth – international relations scholar
  * Greville G Corbett - distinguished professor of linguistics
  * Nigel Gilbert – sociologist, pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences
  * Tim Jackson – ecological economist; professor of sustainable development; author of Prosperity Without Growth
  * Diane Watt—medievalist.
  * Roberta Guerrina – political scientist
  
  ## Health and Medical Sciences
  
  * Derk-Jan Dijk - Distinguished Professor of Sleep and Physiology, Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre
  * Jill Maben - Nurse academic and educator
  