Charles Patterson
| Professor Charles Patterson | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Northern Irish |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Bristol (B.Sc.) University of Cambridge (Ph.D.) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Computational surface science, electron energy loss spectroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy |
| 🏅 Awards | Fellow of Trinity College Dublin Trinity Global Award (2019) |
Charles Patterson is an Northern Irish chemist and physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and computational materials science. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he has taught since 1990. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and was the recipient of the Trinity Global Award in 2019.[1]
Education
Patterson earned a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1982. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1985, under the supervision of Professor Richard Lambert. His doctoral work focused on chemical reactions at single crystal surfaces.[1]
Career
Following his Ph.D., Patterson transitioned from chemistry to condensed matter physics. From 1986 to 1990, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on electron energy loss spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
In 1987, Patterson was a visiting researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he conducted research on low-energy ion scattering from NiAl(110) surfaces.
In 1990, he joined the Department of Physics at Trinity College Dublin as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He was appointed Lecturer in the Science of Materials in 1991 and later promoted to Senior Lecturer (now Associate Professor) in 2004.
From 1997 to 2011, he served as Director of the Computational Physics degree program at Trinity. His current research interests include computational modeling of surface reactions, density functional theory, and materials design.[1]
Research
In 2022, Patterson co-led a team that reported a significant breakthrough[promotion?] in positron physics, published in the journal Nature.[2] The study demonstrated that many-body theory can accurately predict positron binding to molecules, addressing[according to whom?] a long-standing challenge[promotion?] in antimatter research. The work achieved near-exact agreement between theoretical predictions and experimental results, offering new insights[promotion?] into complex electron–positron interactions. These findings have important implications[promotion?] for spectroscopy, antimatter technologies, materials characterization, and astrophysical studies involving positrons.
Honours and awards
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Charles Patterson'Trinity Research - Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ Hofierka, Jaroslav; Cunningham, Brian; Rawlins, Charlie M.; Patterson, Charles H.; Green, Dermot G. (2022). "Many-body theory of positron binding to polyatomic molecules". Nature. 606 (7915): 688–693. arXiv:2105.06959. Bibcode:2022Natur.606..688H. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04703-3. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 9217750 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 35732760 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "Trinity's 2018 Global Engagement Award Winners Announced". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
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