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Christopher Snowden is Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Surrey, UK. Prior to this he was Chief Executive Officer of Filtronic ICS. He joined Filtronic plc in 1998 as Director of Technology before being promoted to Joint Chief Executive Officer in 1999. He is a non-executive director of Intense Ltd, designing and manufacturing optoelectronic and photonic products; CENAMPS Ltd, which is involved in and nanotechnology and SSTL Ltd manufacturing micro-satellites. He is a member of the UK’s National Advisory Committee on Electronic Materials and Devices and an Advisor on the UK’s Office of Science and Technology/DTI Foresight Programme. He is Vice-Chairman of the European Microwave Association. After graduating from the University of Leeds in 1977 he worked for Mullard Ltd. His PhD studies were later conducted in association with Racal MESL Ltd. He worked as the Senior Staff Scientist in Corporate Research and Development at M/A-COM Inc. in the USA, from 1989 to 1991. He has been a consultant for several other major international microwave electronics companies in the USA and UK. He held the personal Chair of Microwave Engineering at the University of Leeds from 1992 to 2005 and during the period 1995-98 he was Head of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was the founder and first Director of the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics located in the School. During his time at Leeds he has supervised 49 successful PhD candidates to-date. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Durham until 2005. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IEE and a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute. He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal in 2004 for his contributions to the UK semiconductor industry. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He was awarded the 1999 Microwave Prize of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He has written 8 books and over 300 papers. He is a member of the IEEE’s Compound Semiconductor Device Technology Committee. | 