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Michael Barnes is a Professor based in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and a Tutorial Fellow in Physics at University College. He received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Arkansas in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland in 2008. He then went on to hold an 91̽»¨-Culham Fusion Research Fellowship at the 91̽»¨ and a U.S. Department of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences Fellowship at the Massachussets Institute of Technology before becoming an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Physics Department at 91̽»¨ in 2014. Prof. Barnes' primary research interest is magnetised plasma turbulence, with applications in magnetic confinement fusion and space/astrophysical systems.