Leadership

I provide leadership for international quality High Frequency Electronic Circuits and Antennas research. I have served on various government IEEE, IET Committees and Journal boards as well as on a number of international programme development groups. I hold a number of fundamental antenna a circuit patents and have written over 400 papers, including many invited papers, in refereed journals and conferences. My research activities have led to substantive innovations across a broad range of enabling technologies and advanced applications. This work has enabled bridging mechanisms to be established between the active circuits and antennas communities. I am one of only a very small number of researchers who have core competence in both microwave circuit and antenna theory and techniques. I have contributed significantly to the creation of several major international research initiatives including the construction of a UK based major research institute which employs over 160 people,   http://www.ecit.qub.ac.uk/. I am a chartered Engineer, Fellow of IEEE, IET, and am Fellow of two national academies, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng, and the Royal Irish Academy, MRIA.  

Currently I am responsible for directing the research activity of 35 staff in High Frequency Electronic Circuits and Antennas at QUB, as well as interdisciplinary research involving DSP and Communications Algorithms groups at QUB/UCD/Tyndall Institute on Gigabit Wireless solutions, 20 people. In addition I am the founder and director of the International Centre for System on Chip for Advanced MicroWireless, SoCam, http://www.ecit.qub.ac.uk/SoCaM/ .

I have attracted in excess of £20M as principal investigator and £40M as co-investigator in research grants from Government EU and from industry including 17 EPSRC awards. 

I act in the capacity of guest editor, editorial board member, and reviewer for a number of major international journals and am actively involved in circuits and antenna centric major international conference organisation as chair, track chair, session chair for the key international conferences relevant to my areas of work. I routinely undertake reviewing duties for major grant funding agencies. I have served as external examiner for primary and advanced degrees at a variety of institutions across the UK, Europe.