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Andrew Holmes received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in 1987 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London in 1992. He served as a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London from 1991 to 1993, during which he held a joint Research Fellowship in Microengineering at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He was appointed to a Lectureship at Imperial College London in 1995, and is currently a Professor in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Head of the Optical & Semiconductor Devices Group. Dr. Holmes has worked on a range of topics including optical signal processing and integrated optics MEMS, and has published around 180 journal and conference papers in these areas. His current research interests focus on micro-power generation and energy harvesting, power conditioning for energy harvesters, tribology in micro-scale mechanical systems, novel micro-assembly techniques, and laser processing for MEMS electronics manufacturing. He is also a co-founder of Microsaic Systems plc, an Imperial College spin-out company established in 2001 to leverage MEMS research from the university, which developed a bench-top mass spectrometer based on MEMS technology and was admitted to the AIM in 2011.
Imperial College London • London, United Kingdom
Currently holds the position of Professor in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and leads the Optical & Semiconductor Devices Group.
Imperial College London • London, United Kingdom
Worked in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, focusing on Microengineering.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.