Research interests
Dr Thompson joined the Artemis team at the start of 2023. James’ expertise is in gas-phase, time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiments, particularly using photoelectron imaging. His current research focus is on photoionisation dynamics and photochemical reaction dynamics of i) biologically relevant species and ii) metal-containing model catalysts
Background
Beamline Scientist I06 – Diamond Light Source, UK, 2022-2023
Postdoctoral Research Associate – University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, 2019 - 2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, 2015 - 2018
Postdoctoral Research Associate – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2015
Ph.D – Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 2015
MSci – University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, 2011
