Christine Davies
British physicist (born 1959)
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Christine Tullis Hunter Davies (born 1959)[1] OBE FRSE FInstP is a professor of physics at the University of Glasgow.[2][3][4]
1959 (age 66–67)[1]
Christine Davies | |
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| Born | Christine Tullis Hunter Davies 1959 (age 66–67)[1] Clacton-on-Sea, England[1] |
| Education | Colchester County High School for Girls[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical particle physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Quantum chromodynamics and the Drell-Yan Process (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bryan Webber |
| Website | www |
Education
Davies attended Colchester County High School for Girls, then the University of Cambridge, where she was an undergraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge.[1] She received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1981 in physics with theoretical physics,[2] followed by a PhD in 1984 for research on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the Drell–Yan process[5] while working in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.[6]
Research and career
Davies' research investigates the strong interaction and the solution of quantum chromodynamics using a numerical method known as Lattice QCD.[7][8]
She has held academic appointments at the University of Glasgow, CERN, Cornell University, Ohio State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara.[2][3] Her research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC),[9] the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC),[2] the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and the Fulbright Program.[1]
She chairs the project management board for the Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC) High Performance Computing (HPC) facility, is a member of the STFC particle physics advisory panel[6] and serves as an external examiner for the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.[3]
Awards and honours
She was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours for services to science,[10] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2001, and has been a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) since 1988.[1] She received the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2005[1] and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2012.[1]