Eleanor Campbell (scientist) explained

Eleanor E.B. Campbell
Honorific Suffix:FRSE FRS FRSC FInstP
Birth Date:13 April 1960
Birth Place:Rothesay, Scotland
Nationality:Scottish
Workplaces:University of Edinburgh
Freiburg University
Max Born Institut
Gothenburg University
Alma Mater:University of Edinburgh
Thesis Title:Electronic to rovibrational excitation in fast atom-molecule collisions
Thesis Year:1985
Doctoral Advisor:Malcolm Fluendy
Awards:FRSE (2004)
Royal Swedish Academy of Science (foreign member) (2005)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2008)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2008)
FRS (2010)
Spouse:Iain Campbell (1984–1991)
Professor Mats Jonson (2003–)

Eleanor Elizabeth Bryce Campbell FRSE FRS FRSC FInstP (born 13 April 1960) is a Scottish scientist who holds the Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.[1] [2]

Education

Campbell was born in 1960 in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in Scotland to Isobel and William Cowan. She was schooled at Rothesay Academy before going on to study for a BSc in Chemical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, passing with first class honours in 1980. She remained at the university for further 4 years studying for a PhD, which she gained in 1986,[3] on the topic of Electronic to rovibrational excitation in fast atom-molecule collisions.[4] [5] She then went to the University of Freiburg having received a habilitation in experimental physics.[6]

Academic career

After her time as assistant professor at the University of Freiburg, Campbell became a departmental head at the Max-Born Institut in 1993. In 1998 she was made Chair of Atomic and Molecular Physics at Gothenburg University, Sweden before returning to the University of Edinburgh in to take up a post as Chair of Physical Chemistry in 2007 and then Chair of Chemistry 2013.

Campbell was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (physics class) in 2005[7] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.[8] In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for her contribution to the understanding of relaxation channels and reorganisational dynamics of highly excited molecules and surfaces through experimental research.[9] She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2008.[10] In 2018 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.[11]

Current work

Campbell's group at the University of Edinburgh study the fundamental ionisation mechanisms and excited state dynamics of complex molecules in the gas phase using femtosecond laser spectroscopy. They also study carbon nanomaterials and develop microporous carbon-based materials for gas capture and storage.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Eleanor E. B. Campbell FRS School of Chemistry. www.chem.ed.ac.uk. en. 2017-12-26.
  2. Book: Who's who. Oxford University Press. 2010. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.251235.
  3. Bryce. Campbell, Eleanor Elizabeth. 1986. Electronic and vibrational excitation in atom / molecule collisions. 1842/13295. en.
  4. News: Academy graduate joins Royal Society . The Buteman . 23 June 2010 . 4 October 2016.
  5. Web site: Eleanor E.B. Campbell - Edinburgh Research Explorer. www.research.ed.ac.uk. en. 2017-12-26.
  6. Web site: Biography of Eleanor Campbell on University of Edinburgh website.
  7. Web site: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien - Contact Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. www.kva.se. 2016-06-30.
  8. Web site: The Royal Society of Edinburgh RSE Fellows. www.royalsoced.org.uk. 2016-06-30.
  9. Web site: Royal Society - Eleanor Campbell webpage.
  10. Web site: Faraday Division Council Members. Royal Society of Chemistry. 2017-12-26.
  11. Web site: Academia Europaea: Eleanor Campbell. 4 November 2023.
  12. Web site: Eleanor Campbell Group Eleanor Campbell site. www.ecampbell.chem.ed.ac.uk. 2016-06-30.