Name David Charlton | ||
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Institutions CERNUniversity of Birmingham Notable awards FInstP (2009)FRS (2014) | ||
David charlton in a nutshell
David G. Charlton FRS is Professor of Particle Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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- Education
- Teaching
- Research
- Career
- Awards and honours
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He is the Spokesperson (scientific head) of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, a position he took in 2013. Prior to becoming Spokesperson, he was the Deputy Spokesperson for four years, and before that Physics Coordinator of ATLAS in the run-up to the start of collision data-taking.
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Education
Charlton was educated at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics in 1985. He went on to study for a PhD in Particle Physics at University of Birmingham, which he was awarded in 1989 for work on the UA1 experiment, searching for the top quark.
Teaching
A professor at the University of Birmingham, he conceived and led design group studies for Year 3 students for several years, and also introduced and taught a Year 4 module named "Current Topics in Particle Physics". Whilst holding the position of Spokesperson of ATLAS, his lecturing is temporarily in abeyance.
Research
Charlton's research investigates the Higgs mechanism and electroweak symmetry breaking. His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Career
Charlton has been the spokesperson of the ATLAS Collaboration since March 2013. During the construction of the ATLAS experiment, he worked on hybrid readout circuits for the silicon strip sensors of the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector and on the first-level calorimeter trigger system.
From 1989 to 2001, Charlton worked on the OPAL experiment of the Large Electron–Positron Collider at CERN, on data analysis, components of the trigger and data acquisition systems, and the identification of muons.
Awards and honours
Charlton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads: