Professor Robert Robson
- Position
- Professorial Research Fellow
- Institution
- School of Mathematics, Physics and I.T., James Cook University
- Expertise
- Kinetic theory of charged particles in gases and solids
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, boundary layer meteorology
- Boundary layer meteorology
- Research in the Centre
- Robert Robson is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Meteorological Society, and joined CAMS from the University of Oklahoma. Previously he was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Low Temperature Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany, Reader in Physics at James Cook University, and held the Hitachi Chair of Electrical Engineering at Japan's Keio University. He coordinates the CAMS research program in theoretical investigation of the macroscopic, transport properties of electrons and positrons in both gaseous and condensed matter, in collaboration with Drs. Ron White and Kevin Ness of James Cook University, and Prof. Zoran Petrovic of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade. This work complements the experimental and theoretical investigations of the microscopic, single-scattering properties (viz., cross sections) of electrons and positrons from atoms and molecules conducted by other researchers in the Centre. The research focusses on solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation, modified as required to include effects such as positron annihilation, positronium formation, and trapping - detrapping phenomena in soft condensed matter.
- Email
- robert.robson@anu.edu.au
