Prof. James Slevin

Prof. James Slevin
 
ICHEC Director
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Jim received his BSc in physics from Queen's University, Belfast and his PhD from City University, New York in 1970. He was lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Stirling in Scotland (1970-85) and Professor of Experimental Physics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1985-2000). Over the past decade he has held senior offices at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) as Science Secretary, Secretary and most recently as President (2005-2008). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Member of the American Physical Society and a member of Academia Europaea. He has published more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals in his main area of research Atomic Physics. He has been involved in major international collaborative programmes of research at the European Centre of Particle Physics research (CERN) and at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California).

Five most significant publications:

"Measurements of complex excitation amplitudes in electron-helium collisions by angular correlations using a coincidence methodi", Phys Rev Lett, Vol. 31, No. 9, (1973) (with M. Eminyan, K. MacAdam and H. Kleinpoppen)

"Measurements of photon polarization and angular correlations for He+ - He collisions using an ion-photon coincidence technique", Phys Rev Lett, Vol. 34, No. 8, 444-47, (1975) (with G. Vassilev, G. Rahmat and J. Baudon)

"Spin-tagged electron-hydrogen scattering: ionisation in the near threshold region", Phys Rev Lett, 65, 1857-60 (1990), (with D.M. Crowe, X.Q. Guo, M.S. Lubell, M. Eminyan).

"Ionization of atomic Deuterium by 30-1000keV antiprotons", Phys Rev Lett, 74, 4627-30 (1995) (with Knudsen, H., U. Mikkelsen, K. Paludan, K. Kirsebom, S. P. Møller, E. Uggerhøj, J. Slevin, M. Charlton and E. Morenzoni)

R.W. O'Neill, P.J.M. van der Burgt, P. Bowe, J.A. Slevin, D. Dziczek, and S. Chwirot: "Polarisation correlation measurements of electron impact excitation of H(2p) at 54.4 eV", Phys Rev Lett, 80 (1998), 1630-1633.