Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol.[1][2] He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.[3]
He graduated B.Sc in 1975 and Ph.D in 1978 from Birmingham University.
His fields of research include uv photochemistry, diamond thin film investigations and the study of nanostructured thin films. [4]