Michael Charlton

Michael Charlton is an emeritus professor of Experimental Physics at Swansea University and the vice president of the Learned Society of Wales

Education Charlton graduated from University College London (UCL) In 1978 with a BSc in physics. In 1980, he won his PhD from the same institution where he worked on his thesis entitled “An Experimental Study of the Interactions of Positrons and Electrons in Gases”. Since 2018, Charlton has been Vice President of the Learned Society of Wales.

Fellowship and membership In 2004 he was elected as the Fellow of the Institute of Physics, in 2011 he became an elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2014 he was elected to the Council of the Learned Society of Wales, in 2018 he was elected as the Vice President of the Learned Society of Wales for STEMM. In 2019 he was elected as a Member of Academia Europaea and the Academy of Europe In 2020, he was awarded the Institute of Physics Thomson Medal and Prize