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
- Awarded FOSA (Fellow of the Optical Society)
- Recipient
- 2007
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Publications
- 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
- Effects of LED device size on UV-C short-range LoS optical wireless communication
- Hill Jordan, Chen Cheng, Xie Enyuan, McKendry Jonathan JD, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Gu Erdan, Haas Harald, Dawson Martin D
- IEEE Photonics Journal Vol 15 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2023.3329980
- Waveguide-integrated colloidal nanocrystal supraparticle lasers
- Alves Pedro Urbano, Guilhabert Benoit J E, McPhillimy John R, Jevtics Dimitars, Strain Michael J, Hejda Matěj, Cameron Douglas, Edwards Paul R, Martin Robert W, Dawson Martin D, Laurand Nicolas
- ACS Applied Optical Materials Vol 1, pp. 1836-1846 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.3c00312
- Additive GaN solid immersion lenses for enhanced photon extraction efficiency from diamond color centers
- Cheng Xingrui, Wessling Nils Kolja, Ghosh Saptarsi, Kirkpatrick Andrew R, Kappers Menno J, Lekhai Yashna N D, Morley Gavin W, Oliver Rachel A, Smith Jason M, Dawson Martin D, Salter Patrick S, Strain Michael J
- ACS Photonics Vol 10, pp. 3374-3383 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00854
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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
- LED excitation of an on-chip imaging flow cytometer for bead-based immunoassay
- Contributor
- 28/9/2020
- Combined Time of Flight and Photometric Stereo Imaging for Surface Reconstruction
- 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