Professor Graham Machin
Temperature Measurement
Graham joined the Temperature Group at NPL in 1991 after completing his DPhil at the University of Oxford on the Physics of Compact Stellar Binary Systems. His current research interests include contact thermometry (particularly high temperature thermocouples), high temperature fixed-points, medical thermometry, primary radiometry, thermal imaging and primary thermometry through acoustic methods.
Graham has worked as an invited guest researcher at NIST (USA) and at NMIJ (Japan). He is the NPL representative on the BIPM Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT), the CCT task force for the kelvin redefinition and is chair of the CCT working group on radiation thermometry. He is also NPL's representative on Euramet TC Thermometry, member of the Euramet TC Thermometry cmc review and strategy groups. He also chairs an IEC committee responsible for developing specification standards for thermal imagers.
Graham has published more than 80 papers/articles on temperature related issues and has given numerous invited lectures. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and currently holds visiting professorships at the University of Valladolid, Spain (Temperature Standards) and University of Glamorgan (Clinical Thermal Imaging). He has been a contributing editor to the two-volume work "Radiometric Temperature Measurement", published by Elsevier in 2010.
Find out more about Graham's research in Temperature Measurement