Michael Charlton FInstP FLSW MAE is an emeritus professor of Experimental Physics at Swansea University and the vice president of the Learned Society of Wales[1] Charlton graduated from University College London (UCL) In 1978 with a BSc in physics.
[2] 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”.
[1][2] After winning a Science and Engineering Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1982, and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1983, Charlton became a Reader in Physics at University College London in 1991.
[3] In 2007, he was awarded EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship award [3] and in 2011 he was the Co-recipient of the 2011 American Physical Society James Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research[5] In 2004 he was elected as the Fellow of the Institute of Physics,[3] in 2011 he became an elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
[3] In 2019 he was elected as a Member of Academia Europaea and the Academy of Europe[4] In 2020, he was awarded the Institute of Physics Thomson Medal and Prize[3]