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Mike Charlton completed his Ph.D. in low energy positron physics atUCL in 1980. In 1982 he was awarded a Science Research Council Junior Fellowship, a position he resigned in 1983 to take up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 1991 he was appointed a Reader at UCL and in 1999 he joined Swansea to take up the new Chair in Experimental Physics. He is currently Head of the Department of Physics and Head of the School of Physical Sciences at Swansea. He was a founding member (2002-4) of the EPSRCPhysics Strategic Advisory Team and he chairs the Rutherford Laboratory Lasers for Science Facility Access Panel. He chaired the 2001 EPSRC Forward Look into Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Physics B and is a committee member of the IOP Division for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. He has published over 150 papers and a monograph, mainly concerning the physics of systems containing antiparticles. His current interests centre on fundamental low energy physics, particularly involving antihydrogen.