Robert G. W. Brown#
| Membership Number: | 2185 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015-date Chief Executive Officer, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD, USA
- 2009 - date Professor, University of California, Irvine. Beckman Laser Institute: Departments of Medicine - and Computer Science, USA
- 2006 – 2009 Chief Technology Officer, Ostendo Technologies Inc, Carlsbad, California, USA
- 2004 – 2005 Professor & Director of Nanotechnology Northern Ireland (NI), Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- 1998 – 2003 International and Editorial Director, Institute of Physics, Bristol and London, UK
- 1990 – 1998 Head of Opto-electronics Research, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford, UK
- 1977 - 1989 Principal Scientist, MoD, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK
- 1983 Ph.D. Engineering, University of Surrey, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Photon correlation spectroscopy
- Photon counting avalanche photo-diodes
- Visible laser diodes
- 3D auto-stereoscopic displays
- Twentieth Century History of Optics and Opto-electronics
- Nanotechnology: opto-electronics
- Single-mode optical-fiber sensors
- Digital Photon Correlators
- Laser velocimetry and turbulence measurement
- Experimental photon statistics
- Infra-red imaging systems
- Laser/LED Colorimetry
Honours and Awards
- (UK) Queen’s Award for Enterprise, 2000. (The highest national prize bestowed by Her Majesty)
