Christine Davies
{{short description|British physicist (born 1959)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Christine Davies
| birth_name = Christine Tullis Hunter Davies
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1959}}
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRSE|FInstP|size=100%}}
| birth_place = Clacton-on-Sea, England
| fields = Theoretical particle physics
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
- CERN
- Cornell University
- Ohio State University
- University of Glasgow
- University of California at Santa Barbara}}
| education = Colchester County High School for Girls
| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
| thesis_title = Quantum chromodynamics and the Drell-Yan Process
| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.351952
| thesis_year = 1984
| doctoral_advisor = Bryan Webber
| awards = {{Plainlist|
- Rosalind Franklin Award (2005)
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012)}}
| website = {{URL|www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~cdavies}}
}}
Christine Tullis Hunter Davies (born 1959){{Who's Who |id = U246675|title=Davies, Prof. Christine Tullis Hunter}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRSE|FInstP}} is a professor of physics at the University of Glasgow.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430053113/https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/topics/diversity-in-science/parent-carer-scientist/parent-carer-scientist.pdf|title=Parent Carer Scientist|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|first=Ottoline|last=Leyser|year=2016|url=https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/topics/diversity-in-science/parent-carer-scientist/parent-carer-scientist.pdf|archivedate=30 April 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/parent-carer-scientist/christine-davies/|title=Professor Christine Davies: Parent carer scientist|website=royalsociety.org|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207155938/https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/parent-carer-scientist/christine-davies/|archivedate=7 February 2018}}
Education
Davies attended Colchester County High School for Girls, then the University of Cambridge, where she was an undergraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge. She received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1981 in physics with theoretical physics, followed by a PhD in 1984 for research on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the Drell–Yan process{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|url=http://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44CAM_ALMA21431236010003606&context=L&vid=44CAM_PROD&search_scope=SCOP_CAM_ALL&tab=cam_lib_coll&lang=en_US|title=Quantum chromodynamics and the Drell-Yan Process|first= Christine Tullis Hunter|last=Davies|year=1984|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.351952}}|publisher=University of Cambridge|oclc=499849168|hdl=}} while working in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612010243/https://www.stfc.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-are-governed/advisory-boards-panels-committees/science-board/professor-christine-davies/|archivedate=12 June 2017|url=https://www.stfc.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-are-governed/advisory-boards-panels-committees/science-board/professor-christine-davies/|website=stfc.ac.uk|location=Swindon|title=STFC Science Board: Professor Christine Davies|author=Anon|year=2017}}
Research and career
Davies' research investigates the strong interaction and the solution of quantum chromodynamics using a numerical method known as Lattice QCD.{{cite journal|last1=Davies|first1=C. T. H.|last2=Follana|first2=E.|last3=Gray|first3=A.|last4=Lepage|first4=G. P.|last5=Mason|first5=Q.|last6=Nobes|first6=M.|last7=Shigemitsu|first7=J.|author7-link= Junko Shigemitsu |last8=Trottier|first8=H. D.|last9=Wingate|first9=M.|last10=Aubin|first10=C.|last11=Bernard|first11=C.|last12=Burch|first12=T.|last13=DeTar|first13=C.|last14=Gottlieb|first14=Steven|last15=Gregory|first15=E. B.|last16=Heller|first16=U. M.|last17=Hetrick|first17=J. E.|last18=Osborn|first18=J.|last19=Sugar|first19=R.|last20=Toussaint|first20=D.|last21=Pierro|first21=M. Di|last22=El-Khadra|first22=A.|last23=Kronfeld|first23=A. S.|last24=Mackenzie|first24=P. B.|last25=Menscher|first25=D.|last26=Simone|first26=J.|title=High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment|display-authors=11|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=92|issue=2|pages=022001|year=2004|issn=0031-9007|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.022001|pmid=14753930|arxiv=hep-lat/0304004|bibcode=2004PhRvL..92b2001D|s2cid=16205350 }}{{Cite journal|arxiv=hep-ph/0412158 |last1=Brambilla |first1=N|author1-link=Nora Brambilla |title=Heavy Quarkonium Physics |journal=CERN Yellow Report, CERN-, Geneva: CERN, .- P |volume=2005 |issue=487 |pages=2005–005 |last2=Krämer |first2=M |last3=Mussa |first3=R |last4=Vairo |first4=A |last5=Bali |first5=G |last6=Bodwin |first6=G. T |last7=Braaten |first7=E |last8=Eichten |first8=E |last9=Eidelman |first9=S |last10=Godfrey |first10=S |last11=Hoang |first11=A |last12=Jamin |first12=M |last13=Kharzeev |first13=D |last14=Lombardo |first14=M. P |last15=Lourenco |first15=C |last16=Meyer |first16=A. B |last17=Papadimitriou |first17=V |last18=Patrignani |first18=C |last19=Rosati |first19=M |last20=Sanchis-Lozano |first20=M. A |last21=Satz |first21=H |last22=Soto |first22=J |last23=Besson |first23=D. Z |last24=Bettoni |first24=D |last25=Böhrer |first25=A |last26=Boogert |first26=S |last27=Chang |first27=C. -H |last28=Cooper |first28=P |last29=Crochet |first29=P |last30=Datta |first30=S |display-authors=29 |year=2004 |bibcode=2004hep.ph...12158B }}
She has held academic appointments at the University of Glasgow, CERN, Cornell University, Ohio State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC),{{cite web|url=http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/F638D1DD-67DF-4F2A-B377-F98354FF2F69|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208155400/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/F638D1DD-67DF-4F2A-B377-F98354FF2F69|archivedate=8 February 2018|website=rcuk.ac.uk|author=Anon|year=2017|publisher=Research Councils UK|location=Swindon|title=UK government grants awarded to Christine Davies}} the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and the Fulbright Program.
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 and serves as an external examiner for the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.{{cite web|url=http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/personal/cdavies/|publisher=University of Glasgow|title=Christine T H Davies Homepage}}
= Awards and honours =
She was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours for services to science,{{London Gazette |issue=58014 |date=17 June 2006 |page=10 |supp=y |title=Birthday Honours List}} 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. She received the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2005 and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2012.
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