People

Giles Davies FREng (Principal Investigator): Professor of Electronic and Photonic Engineering, and Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds. With Linfield, co-developed the first THz QCL through FP-V programme ‘WANTED’. Career total funding of ~£55M from EC, national research councils (EPSRC, BBSRC, NERC, ARC), European Space Agency, UK and US government, DTI/BIS, charity, and industry, as PI and CoI. Significant large grant, consortia building and international leadership programmes include joint co-ordination of three EC FP-V and VI programmes, two RCUK Basic Technology programmes, EPSRC Programme, Critical Mass, Centre for Doctoral Training, and an ERC Advanced Grant. Co-founder and Director of university spin-out Relitect Ltd. Awarded the 2014 IoP Faraday Medal and Prize with Linfield for their contributions to THz science and technology, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2011.

John Cunningham: Professor of Nanoelectronics, and Deputy Head of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. He has twenty years’ experience in the development of GHz and THz techniques for the study of condensed matter systems. He currently leads EPSRC grants on acoustoelectric sources of THz radiation with the University of Nottingham, and on plasmonic gain in low-dimensional electronic systems with Imperial College, and the EPSRC ‘TeraNet’ UK Network.

Edmund Linfield: Professor of Terahertz Electronics, and Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. PI/CoI on many large and international grants over 15 years, including an ERC Advanced Grant, an RCUK Basic Technology award, and a number of large strategic equipment initiatives. Awarded the 2014 IoP Faraday Medal and Prize with Davies, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2015. Director of the Leeds spoke of the Sir Henry Royce Institute of Advanced Materials.

Joshua Freeman: University Academic Fellow, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. He has many years expertise in THz frequency QCLs, including their fabrication, coherent detection, injection locking and modelocking. He was awarded an individual intra-European (Marie Curie) fellowship to work at ENS, Paris.
Oleg Mitrofanov: Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Electronic Engineering, UCL. Developed the first THz near-field microscope with sub-10-μm resolution. General Chair for OTST2017 (Optical THz Science and Technology Conference). PI on >£1.2M of recent grants.

Paul Dean: University Lecturer, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. He is Leeds PI on the Horizon 2020 FET ‘ULTRAQCL’, leads an MRC Confidence in Concept award on THz imaging for medical diagnostics, and is CoI on an ARC Discovery Project. Previously held an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship. He has extensive experience in THz QCL development, and coherent THz sensing and imaging techniques.

Sir Michael Pepper FRS, FREng: Pender Professor of Nanoelectronics at UCL and the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN). Many honorary degrees, named lectures and prizes, including the Royal Society Royal Medal. PI on >£6.5 million of current grants. Co-founder and Scientific Director of TeraView, the world’s leading terahertz technology company.

Alwyn Seeds FIEEE, FREng: Professor of Optoelectronics, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL. Head of Photonics Group (100 researchers). PI on ~£20.5M of current EPSRC grants and contracts, including two CDTs, and the NDFIS mid-range facility. Published >450 papers (>75 invited) and 16 patents, and a co-founder of Zinwave. ERA Foundation Fellow. Awarded the 2012 IoP Gabor Medal and Prize for realization of microwave photonic devices leading to their exploitation in wireless and optical communication systems.

Oleg Mitrofanov: Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Electronic Engineering, UCL. Developed the first THz near-field microscope with sub-10-μm resolution. General Chair for OTST2017 (Optical THz Science and Technology Conference). PI on >£1.2M of recent grants.

Cyril Renaud: Reader in Photonics, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL. Demonstrated first UTC travelling wave THz photodetectors. Recognized for Research Achievement by the Chambre des Commerces et de L’industrie. PI on ~£1M of grants including EU grant IPHOBAC-NG, and industrial collaborations with NPL and SKANSKA. Published >120 papers and 3 patents.

David Ritchie: Professor of Experimental Physics, and Head of Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. A career total funding of £40M from EC, UK research councils (including four EPSRC Programme Grants), government and industry (including Toshiba, TeraView, NPL and E2V). Awarded the 2008 IoP Tabor Medal and Prize for distinguished work in nanoscale physics.

Riccardo Degl’Innocenti: University Lecturer in Engineering, University of Lancaster. Interests include the study of active plasmonic/metamaterial devices based on 2D materials, e.g. graphene, for the realization of integrated fast optoelectronic devices, such as amplitude, frequency and polarization modulators and detectors, for spectroscopic, imaging and communication applications.