Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol.[1] He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.[2]
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.[3]