Professor Martin Dawson
Institute of Photonics
Personal statement
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).
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Prize And Awards
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 2022
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 15/6/2019
- Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize 2016
- Recipient
- 29/11/2016
- Aron Kressel Award (IEEE Photonics Society)
- Recipient
- 4/10/2016
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Recipient
- 2009
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 2007
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Publications
- An optrode array for spatiotemporally-precise large-scale optogenetic stimulation of deep cortical layers in non-human primates
- Clark Andrew M, Ingold Alexander, Reiche Christopher F, Cundy III Donald, Balsor Justin L, Federer Frederick, McAlinden Niall, Cheng Yunzhou, Rolston John D, Rieth Loren, Dawson Martin D, Mathieson Keith, Blair Steve, Angelucci Alessandra
- Communications Biology Vol 7 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05984-2
- GaN-based series hybrid LED array : a dual-function light source with illumination and high-speed visible light communication capabilities
- Xie Enyuan, Cheng Chen, Ouyang Chengsui, Hill Jordan, McKendry Jonathan JD, Zhang Yanchao, Gu Erdan, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Haas Harald, Dawson Martin D
- Journal of Lightwave Technology Vol 42, pp. 243-250 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3303779
- Deep ultraviolet CMOS-controlled micro light-emitting diode array
- McKendry Jonathan JD, Xie Enyuan, Hill Jordan, Zimi Hichem, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Gu Erdan, Henderson Robert K, Dawson Martin D
- IEEE Photonics Journal Vol 15, pp. 1-6 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2023.3330571
- Micro-LED nanosecond pulsed structured light sources with 405 nm – 510 nm wavelength
- Gray JA, McKendry JJD, Herrnsdorf JH, Strain MJ, Henderson RK, Dawson MD
- 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (2023) - https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360550
- High speed single pixel imaging with advanced microLED digital light projector
- Johnstone GE, Bennett S, Murray P, Dehkhoda F, Henderson RK, Herrnsdorf J, Dawson MD, Strain MJ
- 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (2023) - https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360536
- Gigabit per second UV-C LEDs for communications
- Zimi H, Maclure D M, Chen C, McKendry J J D, Stothard D J M, Herrnsdorf J, Haas H, Dawson M D
- 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) Vol 2023 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360631
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Professional Activities
- Rank Prize Fund Symposium 'Neuromorphic Photonics'
- Organiser
- 6/2/2023
- Hyperspectral Single Pixel Imaging with GaN μ-LED arrays for microscale positioning of fluorescent markers
- Contributor
- 10/11/2022
- Recent developments in gallium nitride micro-light-emitting diode structured light sources
- Speaker
- 8/12/2020
- Combined Time of Flight and Photometric Stereo Imaging for Surface Reconstruction
- Contributor
- 28/9/2020
- LED excitation of an on-chip imaging flow cytometer for bead-based immunoassay
- Contributor
- 28/9/2020
- Integration of an LED/SPAD Optical Wireless Transceiver with CubeSat On-board Systems
- Contributor
- 28/9/2020
Projects
- plaTform drIving The ultimAte coNnectivity (TITAN) (Future Communications Systems Hub)
- Haas, Harald (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Co-investigator) Tavakkolnia, Iman (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026
- Structured light projection for FLIM in scattering environments (QUANTIC)
- Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Gray, Johnathan
- Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Gray, Johnathan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Fraunhofer UK Research Limited: Studentship Agreement | Cohen, Steven
- Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Cohen, Steven (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- QT Assemble: Integrated Quantum Technology Programme
- Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
- QuantIC - The UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Imaging
- Dawson, Martin (Principal Investigator) Jeffers, John (Co-investigator) Strain, Michael (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024