Philippe Monthoux

I like to go over tutorial questions and/or past exam paper, because we learn best from examples. And at the end of the day, you'll be asked to solve problems on the exam, not give a lecture.

I've been tutoring since 2013 after a 20+ year career in Academia. I got my PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics under Prof. David Pines, then spent two years as a post-doc at the KAVLI Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara.

I then spent eighteen years on the Physics faculty at the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh and the Florida State University.

While at Florida State, I taught introductory physics and graduate Quantum Field Theory.

At the University of Cambridge, I taught computer simulation in physics and chemistry (with Michiel Sprik), gave graduate lectures on numerical methods in condensed matter physics. I supervised students in scientific computing, atomic and solid state physics. I also had three PhD students graduate and go on to wonderful careers. My first student is now an Advisor to Senior Executive and Government at the Gulf Cooperation Council in Dubai, and the second student works as an Associate Director, Research & Science (Computational Biology) at the University of Utah. My last student, who nicely supplemented his graduate stipend by playing online poker, went on to work in the City of London.

In Edinburgh, I taught scientific computing in Java, mathematical methods in physics, solid state physics and statistical mechanics.

I am the author/co-autohor of over forty peer-reviewed scientific articles published in some of the most prestigious journals, such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and the Physical Review.