Charles A Weatherford

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Charles Weatherford is the Vice President for Research at Florida A&M University (FAMU).

Dr. Weatherford is also the Director of the FAMU Industrial Hemp Pilot Project, Principal Investigator on the FAMU Medical Marijuana Education and Research Initiative, Director of the FAMU Center for Plasma Science and Technology, Principal Investigator for the FAMU-National Nuclear Security Agency Consortium for High Energy Density Science, as well as a Professor in the FAMU Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics from Louisiana State University in 1974.

Dr. Weatherford is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the National Society of Back Physicists. He has directed three Ph.D.’s: Dr. Eddie Red (2005), Dr. Daniel Gebremedhin (2013), Dr. Boyan Hristov (2018). Dr. Weatherford has a Patent Disclosure 2018: “Field-Assisted Muon-Catalyzed Fusion”, 224 journal publications, 5 book articles, and 2 books. He was PI or Co-PI on $60.5 million in Research Grants and Contracts.

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• Materials and Energy for National Security
• Correlation in Many-Body Quantum Chemistry
• Laser-Matter Interactions
• High-Energy Density Science
• Field-Assisted Muon-Catalyzed Fusion
• Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in Space
• Computational Science.

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• Vice President for Research • 2019-Present
  Florida A&M University
• Associate Vice President for Research • 2014-2019
  Florida A&M University
• Chairman of Physics •  1994-2014
  Florida A&M University
• Professor of Physics •  1985-1994
  Florida A&M University
• Associate Professor of Physics •  1981-1985
  Florida A&M University
• Assistant Professor of Physics •  1977-1981
  Florida A&M University
• Postdoctoral Fellow •  1974-1977
  Florida A&M University

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• Ph.D.’s Directed:
  Dr. Eddie Red (2005), Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory, Morehouse;
  Dr. Daniel Gebremedhin (2013), FAMU Center for Plasma Science and Technology;
  Dr. Boyan Hristov, Florida State University
  Jessica Tucker, Current PhD Student FAMU.
• PATENTS:
  Patent Disclosure 2015: “Field-Assisted Muon-Catalyzed Fusion”, Charles A. Weatherford
• PUBLICATIONS—224 Total
• GRANTS and CONTRACTS--$64M
• Postgraduate Sponsor of:
  (1) Dr. Ahmed Bouferguene, University of Ontario;
  (2) Dr. Anil Kumar, J.P University, Chapra, India.;
  (3) Paul Oppenheimer, Engineering Research Center-Mississippi State U.;
  (4) Dr. Ravi Vadapalli, Engineering Research Center-Mississippi State U.;
  (5) Dr. Fernando Sales-Mayor, Florida A&M University;
  (6) Dr. Jilin Zhang, Florida A&M University;
  (7) Dr. Genzo Tanaka, Florida A&M University;
  (8) Dr. Gennady Gutsev, Florida A&M University;
  (9) Dr. Daniel Gebremedhin, Florida A&M University.
  

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• 1999 Professional Excellence Award-Florida A&M U. (FAMU);
• 2000 Service Award-(FAMU);
• 2007 Elected Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists;
• 2010 Researcher of the Year (FAMU);
• 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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• Every course in the Florida A&M Physics Curriculum.