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Profile of Professor Paul S. Spencer

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Name:

Professor Paul S. Spencer

Position:

Professor and Head of School of Electronic Engineering

Email:

Location:

Room 127, Dean Street

Phone:

(01248) 382738

Dr. Paul S. Spencer was born in Ilfracombe, Devon, U.K., in 1967. He received a B.Sc. degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Bath, U.K., in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was a research assistant at the University of Bath. Since 1996, he has been with the University of Wales, Bangor, U.K, becoming a lecturer in 1998 a senior lecturer in 2003 and receiving a Personal Chair in 2006.

His main research interests are semiconductor laser dynamics, optical feedback effects, pulse propagation, and optical waveguide properties of optoelectronic devices. He has been an author on over 70 journal papers and 120 conference papers and is a regular reviewer for IEEE, OSA, APS and IOP journals. In 2000 he won the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) best engineering poster award and between 2002 and 2006 he was the Treasurer of the semiconductor physics group of the Institute of Physics. He is also an EPSRC college panel member.