Independent consultant, visitor at Southampton university and expert advisor to various Foresight projects, He has wide interests in technologies from communications to biosensing, he was educated at Imperial College (Physics). His personal interests have been in optical fibre communications and optoelectronics. Recent interests include nanophotonics, microstructured photonic materials (photonic crystals), optical slow-wave structures, nanomechanical systems, inkjet printing of glasses and the application of various optical, semiconductor and acoustic technologies to medicine, particle physics and industrial processes. He is author on some 64 conference and journal papers, including many invited papers, and on 48 patents. He is a past member of the editorial advisory board for the journal 'Science', on the advisory board of Antenova, OfCom’s Spectrum Advisory Board, ECOC management committee and many others. Previously the Chief Scientist at Marconi.
