Professor Ian W Boyd of the London
Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) will take the first leadership role over
the new Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) from the 1st of October.
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The Melbourne Centre for NanoFabrication provides Australia’s leading
scientists and engineers with the tools to build miniature devices that could
potentially revolutionise many advanced industrial spheres, including the health
care, information technology and environmental maintenance sectors. The MCN
couples state of the art instrumentation for nano- and micro- scale fabrication
– that is, for fabrication at the scale of between 1/10,000 and 1/100,000
of a human hair – with purpose built laboratories for making ever smaller,
more powerful and more effective devices such as drug delivery devices, diagnostics
and water sensing for improving our health and the health of our environment.
Professor Ian Boyd obtained 1st class BSc (1979) and PhD (1982) degrees at
Heriot-Watt University where he received the Watt Medal for distinction and
class prize for best student. He subsequently worked in medical physics at WGH
in Edinburgh and as a CMOS process engineer in Scotland’s Silicon Glen
and spent several years at the University of North Texas developing picosecond
lasers and studying their non-linear optical applications. In 1985, he became
a lecturer at UCL in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and founded the
Laser Processing Group. After successive promotions to senior lecturer and reader.
He was appointed to the first chair of Electronic Materials in 1994.
He is currently the head of the 22-strong Materials & Device Group that
studies the fundamental aspects, development, and applications of thin film
processing, and novel devices. In 1992, he co-founded UCL's Centre for Materials
Research leading to the formation of the London Centre for Nanotechnology of
which he is currently director of nanoelectronics and member of the executive
committee.
Prof. Boyd has written and/or edited 8 books, published around 300 papers,
and delivered 200 conference papers (45 invited) at international level on many
aspects of laser processing and electronic materials, from insulators to magnetic
layers and superconductors. He has personally co-chaired 12 international conferences
across Europe, Japan, and N. America and served on more than 25 additional conference
advisory committees. In 2010 he will be a general co-chair of the EMRS conference
in Strasbourg.
Prof Boyd is also consultant to several international companies, a Fellow
of the IEE and the IOP, and both a chartered engineer and chartered physicist.
He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Materials
Research Society (EMRS), having served as its President from 1996-1997. He is
also a co-founding member of the International Union of MRS societies. Prof
Boyd has served on the editorial board of numerous journals, on a range of international
advisory committees for UK and European research institutes, including CNRS
(Italy), CRN (France) and IMEC (Leuven), and was the founding chairman of the
IET Professional Network on Materials and Devices. In 2005 he was the recipient
of the prestigious Yarwood Medal and Senior Prize of the British Vacuum Council,
and in 2008 elected to the Executive Board of the Materials Research Society.
Posted September 25th, 2009
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