Michael Charlton (academic)
Michael Charlton is an emeritus professor of Experimental Physics at Swansea University and the vice president of the Learned Society of Wales. He studied at University College London, earning a BSc in physics in 1978 and a PhD in 1980 on the interactions of positrons and electrons in gases. After postdoctoral fellowships with SERC in 1982 and the Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1983, he became a Reader in Physics at UCL in 1991. He moved to Swansea in 1999 as Professor of Physics, served as Head of the Department of Physics from 2001 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2016, and is now Emeritus Professor. Since 2018 he has been Vice President of the Learned Society of Wales. His research covers antihydrogen physics, positron and positronium physics, positron beams, and atomic scattering.
His honors include a SERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1982), a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1983), and an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship (2007). He was co-recipient of the 2011 American Physical Society James Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2004 and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011. In 2014 he joined the Council of the Learned Society of Wales, and in 2018 he became Vice President of the Society for STEMM. In 2019 he was elected a Member of Academia Europaea and the Academy of Europe, and in 2020 he received the Institute of Physics Thomson Medal and Prize.
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