Director RSPE Appointment

Prof Andrew Roberts, Dean CPMS, is delighted to announce that Professor Tim Senden has been appointed as the next Director of RSPE. Professor Stephen Buckman retires Friday 3 July, and Tim will start on Saturday, July 4, and will serve a 5-year term in the first instance. Tim is well known to you all and needs no further introduction.

Thank you for your patience as we worked through to this outcome. We had an outstanding field of candidates, the majority of whom were external to the School. Over the past several months, I have been involved in negotiations with 2 external candidates, but these proved unsuccessful due entirely to personal issues rather than professional circumstances or financial negotiations. Tim was among the outstanding candidates and we have full confidence that Tim is an excellent appointee.

Please join Prof Roberts in congratulating Tim and working with him to drive an excellent future for RSPE.

Congratulations

Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish has won the IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) 2015 Engineering Achievement Award for pioneering and sustained contributions to compound semiconductor quantum well, quantum dot and nanowire optoelectronic devices and their integration.

The presentation will be made during the 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) in the US in October.

RSPE would like to congratulate Professor Jagadish for all of his work that has led to such a significant accolade.

» read more

Congratulations

Congratulations to Prof Christine Charles (SP3) on being awarded an Excellence in Engineering Women in Industry Award.

On behalf of all of RSPE we congratulate Christine, it is a great honour and well deserved award.

Farewell

Nuclear Physics (NP)
Farewell to Alistair Muirhead, who will retire on 3rd July 2015 after 36 year excellent service to the RSPE and NP. You will go away but your morals, ethics and technical expertise will always stay with us. Thanks for being such an inspirational colleague. We will miss your professional expertise and your friendship and wish you success and happiness in your future adventures!

Welcome

Plasma Research Laboratory (PRL) welcomes Prof Vladimir Moiseenko from the National Science Center “Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (Ukraine) for the period of 24 June- 8 July 2015. Prof Moiseenko will work with Dr Boyd Blackwell and Prof John Howard on the application to H-1 of an innovative approach to radio frequency plasma heating which is well-suited to medium sized plasma devices.

Electronic Materials Engineering (EME)
Welcomes Mr Inseok Yang a new PhD student from South Korea. Inseok will be working with Prof Chennupati Jagadish; and
Mr Valentin Ramez who is visiting with Professor Jagadish for 3 months from Engineering School PHELMA Grenoble INP.