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Professor Wilton Catford is a faculty member at the University of Surrey's School of Mathematics and Physics, serving as a Research Group Leader in Nuclear Physics & Applications. His career spans over four decades, with a D.Phil. (Oxon) from the University of Oxford, followed by postdoctoral work at the Australian National University (ANU). He has been based at Surrey since the early 1990s, leveraging its proximity to global radioactive beam facilities.
Research focuses on nuclear structure and reactions, particularly neutron transfer experiments using radioactive beams. Key tools include detector arrays like TIARA, SHARC, and collaborations at facilities such as CERN, GANIL, and TRIUMF. His work explores light to medium-mass nuclei, deformation phenomena, and astrophysical reaction pathways relevant to X-ray bursts and novae.
Publications span experimental techniques, exotic nuclei, and nuclear astrophysics. Collaborations involve international teams, with notable contributions to understanding neutron-proton pairing, fusion dynamics, and shell gaps. He has pioneered nucleon transfer studies with radioactive beams and detector development for inverse kinematics experiments.
