Michael Charlton#
| Membership Number: | 4973 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9754-1932 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Swansea University
- 1991 Reader in Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
- 1983 Royal Society 1983 University Research Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
- 1982 SERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
- 1980 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Charged particle traps, including for antiparticles
- Antihydrogen physics - creation of, and experimentation with, low energy antihydrogen
- Positron physics - including production and application of low energy positron beams
- Physics of atomic scattering processes
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Elected as Vice President of the Learned Society of Wales for STEMM
- 2017 Trapped Antihydrogen work from 2010 featured as one of the top 40 papers from the last 40 years in an anniversary celebration of the Department of Energy, USA
- 2015 Antihydrogen work featured in “Pioneer 14”, the EPSRC 20-year celebration publication
- 2014 Elected to the Council of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2011 Co-recipient (with 10 colleagues from the ALPHA Collaboration) of the 2011 American Physical Society John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research.
- 2011 Elected as an Inaugural Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW)
- 2010 ALPHA’s work on Trapped Antihydrogen selected by Physics World as 2010 physics highlight of the year
- 2007 Awarded EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship
- 2005 Antihydrogen work selected as an EPSRC highlight from their first 10 years
- 2004 Elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)
- 1996 Antihydrogen project selected as an EPSRC highlight
- 1988 Positronium beam work selected as a SERC highlight
- 1983 Awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 1982 Awarded SERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
