Martin Freer

Martin Freer

Nuclear Physics and Energy Research

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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    Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute, Director of the Energy Research Accelerator

    University of Birmingham

    - Present 9 years

    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

    Birmingham Energy Institute is a pan-discipline research centre with research activities from hydrogen, energy storage through to nuclear energy. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/energy/index.aspx
    Energy Research Accelerator combines the research programmes of 8 Midlands universities. https://www.era.ac.uk/

  • School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

    School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

    9 years

    • Nuclear Physicist

      School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

      - Present 31 years

      Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

      https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=MzBofHkAAAAJ&hl=en
      Light nuclei are a remarkable testing ground for the understanding of the strong interaction and its influence on many body-dynamics. The interaction is complex having short and long range components, is spin and velocity dependent and has tensor and many-body (particularly 3-body) components. Correlations, in both momentum and geometrical space, have a significant role to play. There is a delicate balance between the…

      https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=MzBofHkAAAAJ&hl=en
      Light nuclei are a remarkable testing ground for the understanding of the strong interaction and its influence on many body-dynamics. The interaction is complex having short and long range components, is spin and velocity dependent and has tensor and many-body (particularly 3-body) components. Correlations, in both momentum and geometrical space, have a significant role to play. There is a delicate balance between the single-particle behaviour of the individual nucleons and the tendency to behave collectively, and influenced by the correlations, for the nucleons to cluster. Light nuclei provide the perfect laboratory, where the single-particle, collective and clustering degrees of freedom all contribute and fight for dominance. In many of these systems the correlations rule and the nucleus precipitates into clusters. In particular, because of the high degree of symmetry and the dominance of the pairing contributions the alpha-particle is the dominant cluster. My research focuses on understanding the role of clustering in light nuclei. As of September 2016 I had published 260 papers and conference proceedings, including 8 review articles, and have a Google Scholar h-index of 50. I was awarded the 2010 Rutherford Medal for my contributions to the field and the 2005 Humboldt Foundation, Bessel Prize.

    • Head of Physics and Astronomy

      School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

      - 3 years

      Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

      Four year term as Head of Department: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/physics/index.aspx

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