Michael Ashfold

{{Short description|British chemist}}

Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/chemistry/peoplenav/|title=People navigation | School of Chemistry | University of Bristol|first=University of|last=Bristol|website=www.bris.ac.uk}}

He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.{{cite web | title=Michael Ashfold | website=Royal Society | url=https://royalsociety.org/people/michael-ashfold-11010/ | access-date=27 August 2022}}

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.{{cite web | url = http://www.bris.ac.uk/chemistry/people/mike-n-ashfold/index.html| title = Professor Mike Ashfold| publisher = University of Bristol|accessdate = 2012-06-19}}