Christine Davies

Christine Davies
OBE FRSE FInstP
Born
Christine Tullis Hunter Davies

1959 (age 64–65)[1]
Clacton-on-Sea, England[1]
EducationColchester County High School for Girls[1]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical particle physics
Institutions
ThesisQuantum chromodynamics and the Drell-Yan Process (1984)
Doctoral advisorBryan Webber
Websitewww.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]

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. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Davies, Prof. Christine Tullis Hunter". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d Leyser, Ottoline (2016). "Parent Carer Scientist" (PDF). royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b 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.