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Abingdon-On-Thames, England, United Kingdom

Technical lead for Kistler Fiber Technology, a company set up by Kistler to develop products based around FSI technology.Responsible for UK R&D facility and operations including setting up new office, lab space and associated processes (e.g. Health and Safety).Leader and line manager for multidisciplinary team (hardware, firmware, data science, deployment/operations)Responsible for engineering activities, including product accreditation.Produced marketing communications, product training and sales support materials.Managed projects resulting in product launch, initial manufacture and successful customer demonstrations.

Harwell Campus, England, United Kingdom

Executive in charge of product research and development at Nova Scientia, a start-up commercialising an innovative new laser-based fibre measurement technology (FSI) with a wide range of applications in problems requiring high-speed nanometric measurement of shape, pressure, temperature, and strain. Responsible for all R&D activities for the optoelectronic instrumentation in our novel Fibre Segment Interferometry technology. Gained additional responsibility for R&D and manufacturing of fibre-optic sensor products. Led and developing multi-disciplinary teams including mechanical, electronic, software, and firmware engineers as well as photonics specialists and data scientists. After producing our minimum viable product within 8 months of full operation, we completed successful commercial customer demonstrations in the battery, automotive, aerospace, and industrial measurement sectors. Other key tasks include roadmapping, managing supplier relationships, technical writing, sales support and grant applications, as well as setting up/developing internal processes for R&D project management, manufacturing, HR administration, CoSHH management and Health & Safety.

Ely, Cambridgeshire

Manager of the Michell Instruments Research Group, a multidisciplinary team performing research and early-stage development of novel technologies and methodologies for gas analysis, as well as the onward development and support of our laser-based products.This role includes strategic planning and implementation of our research program, managing relationships with outside organizations and research partners, and attracting external grant funding.

Witchford

Responsible for the investigation and early stage development of new technologies and potential products.Leader of the R&D team for laser-based analysers, from proof of principle to market.Developed successful grant proposals and patent applications for next generation sensors and measurement techniques.

Ely, Cambridgeshire

Technology specialist on the development team for a new tunable diode laser spectroscopy product, to enable trace measurement of moisture in natural gas.

Begbroke Science Park, Oxfordshire

Responsible for the development and demonstration of a prototype spectroscopic gas analyser for industry. Also assisted with development of the CEAS platform for diabetes monitoring, through the analysis of volatile compounds (ketones) in breath.

Physical And Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory

Postdoctoral research position at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory to study light-matter interactions in soft-condensed matter systems. This included studies of evanescent field and near-field scattering, resonant optical cavities, micro-rheology, SERRS, spectroscopic studies of ionic liquids and aerosol dynamics in shaped optical fields.This required the day-to-day supervision of typically 2 DPhil students and 2 Part II students and frequent collaboration with numerous academics both within the University of Oxford and at other institutions.

School Of Physics And Astronomy

Taunton, United Kingdom