Michael Ashfold

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Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol. [1] He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. [2]

He graduated B.Sc in 1975 and Ph.D in 1978 from Birmingham University.

His fields of research include ultraviolet photochemistry, optical diagnostic methods implemented on microwave-activated methane/hydrogen plasmas in the context of diamond growth via chemical vapour deposition, diamond thin film investigations and the study of nanostructured thin films. [3]

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  1. Bristol, University of. "People navigation | School of Chemistry | University of Bristol". www.bris.ac.uk.
  2. "Michael Ashfold". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  3. "Professor Mike Ashfold". University of Bristol. Retrieved 2012-06-19.