Keith Burnett
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Keith Burnett CBE FRS is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.
Burnett was born in Llwynypia in the Rhondda Valley. He studied Physics at the University of Oxford obtaining a BA in 1972 then a DPhil in 1979. He held academic positions in Physics at the University of Colorado, Imperial College and the University of Oxford before taking up his present post on 1 October 2007. His research includes the study of Bose-Einstein condensates. He was awarded a CBE in 2004 for services to Physics.
He is married with two children.