Christine Davies

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Christine Davies
OBE FRSE FInstP
Born
Christine Tullis Hunter Davies

1959 (age 65–66) [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.physics.gla.ac.uk/~cdavies

Christine Tullis Hunter Davies (born 1959) [1] OBE FRSE FInstP is a professor of physics at the University of Glasgow. [2] [3] [4]

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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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Davies, Prof. Christine Tullis Hunter" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Leyser, Ottoline (2016). "Parent Carer Scientist" (PDF). royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Christine T H Davies Homepage". University of Glasgow.
  4. ↑ "Professor Christine Davies: Parent carer scientist". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Davies, Christine Tullis Hunter (1984). Quantum chromodynamics and the Drell-Yan Process (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   499849168. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.351952.
  6. 1 2 Anon (2017). "STFC Science Board: Professor Christine Davies". stfc.ac.uk. Swindon. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Davies, C. T. H.; Follana, E.; Gray, A.; Lepage, G. P.; Mason, Q.; Nobes, M.; Shigemitsu, J.; Trottier, H. D.; Wingate, M.; Aubin, C.; Bernard, C.; et al. (2004). "High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment". Physical Review Letters . 92 (2) 022001. arXiv: hep-lat/0304004 . Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92b2001D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.022001. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   14753930. S2CID   16205350.
  8. ↑ Brambilla, N; Krämer, M; Mussa, R; Vairo, A; Bali, G; Bodwin, G. T; Braaten, E; Eichten, E; Eidelman, S; Godfrey, S; Hoang, A; Jamin, M; Kharzeev, D; Lombardo, M. P; Lourenco, C; Meyer, A. B; Papadimitriou, V; Patrignani, C; Rosati, M; Sanchis-Lozano, M. A; Satz, H; Soto, J; Besson, D. Z; Bettoni, D; Böhrer, A; Boogert, S; Chang, C. -H; Cooper, P; Crochet, P; et al. (2004). "Heavy Quarkonium Physics". CERN Yellow Report, CERN-, Geneva: CERN, .- P. 2005 (487): 2005–005. arXiv: hep-ph/0412158 . Bibcode:2004hep.ph...12158B.
  9. ↑ Anon (2017). "UK government grants awarded to Christine Davies". rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018.
  10. ↑ "Birthday Honours List". The London Gazette (Supplement). No. 58014. 17 June 2006. p. 10.
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