Marielle Chartier

Career and research After her PhD, Chartier was a postdoctoral researcher for two years at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University. She worked at the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan on exotic nuclei. This allowed her to establish an entirely new research area, exploring exotic nuclear physics and the valley of stability. At the University of Liverpool Chartier teaches Nuclear Physics. She is interested in ways to measure the masses of exotic nuclei. To do this, she uses a cyclotron as a mass spectrometer.

In 2010 Chartier was part of a multi-million pound grant to work on the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt. She is interested in the valley of stability. She led the UK involvement with the Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions (NuSTAR) experiments, studying the nuclear drip line, the ordering of quantum states and symmetry of near-stable nuclei.

Today, Chartier works on Hadronic matter. She led the University of Liverpool joining the ALICE experiment in 2013 and became interested in Charm quarks. Despite spending her early research career working on nuclear physics, Chartier had considerable experience working on heavy-ion collisions with fixed targets at low energies. She works on the strong force, using ultra-relativistic heavy ion interactions to study Quantum chromodynamics (QCD).