Eleanor Elizabeth Bryce Campbell FRSE FRS FRSC

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(born 13 April 1960) is a Scottish scientist who holds the Chair of Chemistry at the

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Education

Campbell was born in 1960 in

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on the

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to Isobel and William Cowan. She was schooled at Rothesay Academy before going on to study for a

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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, on the topic of ''Electronic to rovibrational excitation in fast atom-molecule collisions''. She then went to the

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having received a habilitation in experimental physics.

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 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004. In 2010 she was elected a

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for her contribution to the understanding of relaxation channels and reorganisational dynamics of highly excited molecules and surfaces through experimental research. She was made a

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and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2008. In 2018 she was elected as a member of the

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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.

References

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