Christine Davies

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Christine Davies

Born
Christine Tullis Hunter Davies

1959 (age 6364) [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]

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