Dermot awarded 2019 Institute of Physics Sir David Bates Prize

The Bates Prize is awarded biennially to an early-career researcher (within the first 12 years of a research career) for outstanding research in quantum, atomic and molecular, or plasma physics to commemorate Sir David Bates FRS, a towering figure of atomic and molecular physics.

Dermot received the 2019 Bates Prize chiefly for his development of many-body-theory and computational approaches for low-energy positron scattering and annihilation in atoms. For full details see the Institute of Physics (click here) website.

The prize included a commemorative plaque, which was presented to Dermot by Prof Ed Hinds FRS at the 2019 International Conference in Quantum, Atomic and Molecular Physics (QuAMP), where Dermot gave the invited Bates prize talk.

[Full details can be found on the IOP webpage, Story also on QUB website].