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Profile of Prof. Ron Pethig

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Name:

Professor Ron Pethig

Position:

Professor

Email:

Location:

Dean Street

Phone:

01248 382686

Prof. Ron Pethig has held a Personal Chair at the Schools of Electronics and Computer Science since 1986.  From 1986 to 1998 he was Director of the Institute of Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics at Bangor, and between 1998 to 2003 he was seconded to Aura BioSystems Inc, California, serving first as Vice-President for Research and then as CEO.  He remains a Board Member of this company.  He enjoys a long association with the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole - being elected a Corporation Member in 1982 and as an Adjunct Senior Scientist in 2005.  In January 2006 he became the first recipient of the Eugene and Millicent Bell Endowed Fellowship in Tissue Engineering at the MBL.

Holds Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Southampton) and Physical Chemistry (Nottingham), a D.Sc. in Biomolecular Electronics (Southampton), and is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and Member of the Institute of Physics.  Honours include an Innovation Prize awarded jointly by the Institutions of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the British Design Council (1988), as well as the 1994 Innovation Awards of the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine, and the Biological Engineering Society.  In 2001, he was the first recipient of the Herman P Schwan Award for work in biodielectrics.  He is a named inventor on 14 patents, and has authored one book and more than 200 peer reviewed publications.