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Personal Statement
Professor Martin D. Dawson FRS FRSE FIEEE FOSA FInstP is a physicist known for his work on lasers and compound semiconductors. He is Director of Research in the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics, which he helped establish 27 years ago, and he was also appointed inaugural Head and Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (Fh-CAP) in 2012. Martin has over 35 years’ experience of applied research gained in academia and industry in the UK and USA and he has been involved in the formation and technical development of a number of spin-out businesses, most recently including mLED and Neuro-VLC. He gave the Rank Prize Lecture in 2014 and has received awards including Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics; Aron Kessel Award of the IEEE Photonics Society; Nick Holonyak Jr Award from Optica/OSA; Global Solid State Lighting Award of Outstanding Achievement from ISA; Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Photonics Society. He and his group have twice been awarded the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award (2019 and 2022).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Characterisation and application of a mode-locked (mode-locked, Q-Switched) cw Nd:YAG laser, Imperial College London
Award Date: 30 Jun 1985
Bachelor of Science, Imperial College London
Award Date: 1 Aug 1981
Unknown, Associateship of Royal College of Science (ARCS), Imperial College London
Award Date: 31 Jul 1981
External positions
Senior Research Scientist, Sharp Laboratories of Europe Limited
Apr 1991 → Feb 1996
Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa
Sept 1988 → Mar 1991
Research Scientist/Visiting Asst. Professor, University of North Texas
Sept 1985 → Aug 1988
Research Assistant in Laser Optics, Imperial College London
Oct 1984 → Aug 1985
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Additive GaN solid immersion lenses for enhanced photon extraction efficiency from diamond color centers
Cheng, X., Wessling, N. K., Ghosh, S., Kirkpatrick, A. R., Kappers, M. J., Lekhai, Y. N. D., Morley, G. W., Oliver, R. A., Smith, J. M., Dawson, M. D., Salter, P. S. & Strain, M. J., 30 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ACS Photonics. 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Foundry SiN as a platform for heterogeneous integration at visible wavelengths
Smith, J. A., Li, Z., Ghosh, S., Francis, H., Navickaite, G., McKnight, L. J., Oliver, R. A., Dawson, M. D. & Strain, M. J., 23 Aug 2023, 2023 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2 p. (2023 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book
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Data for: "Self-assembled semiconductor microlaser based on colloidal nanoplatelets"
Alves, P. (Creator), Sharma, M. (Contributor), Demir, H. V. (Contributor), Dawson, M. (Contributor) & Laurand, N. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 16 May 2022
DOI: 10.15129/dbad27a1-ece4-45de-a638-e78b61bdd131, https://ieee-ipc.org/
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Data for: "High-Speed Optical Camera Communications Using CMOS-driven Micro-LED Projector"
Shao, Y. (Creator), McKendry, J. (Creator), Dehkhoda, F. (Creator), Xie, E. (Creator), Herrnsdorf, J. (Creator), Strain, M. (Creator), Henderson, R. (Creator) & Dawson, M. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 21 Nov 2022
DOI: 10.15129/d4163a0c-1cdf-4cb7-8b05-d05e0784eba2
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Prizes
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Aron Kressel Award (IEEE Photonics Society)
Dawson, Martin (Recipient), 4 Oct 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Awarded FOSA (Fellow of the Optical Society)
Dawson, Martin (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Rank Prize Fund Symposium 'Neuromorphic Photonics'
Antonio Hurtado (Participant), Martin Dawson (Organiser) & Sergei turitsyn (Organiser)
6 Feb 2023 → 9 Feb 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference
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Hyperspectral Single Pixel Imaging with GaN μ-LED arrays for microscale positioning of fluorescent markers
Alex Blanchard (Speaker), Paul Edwards (Contributor), Benoit Jack Eloi Guilhabert (Contributor), Erdan Gu (Contributor), Ian Watson (Contributor), Martin Dawson (Contributor) & Johannes Herrnsdorf (Contributor)
10 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Impacts
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One thousand LEDs on a pinhead
Martin Dawson (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Economic and commerce