Prof Andrew Ellis, Aston University: Speaker at our Autumn 2020 virtual conference

Let's Get Physical - Autumn 2020 Virtual Conference
OPTICS

Held on 12th - 16th October 2020: Five days of Physics goodness on 

- Optics
- Wireless
- PGR Spotlight day
- Quantum 
- Data Science & AI

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Andrew D. Ellis was born in Underwood, U.K., in 1965. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics with a minor in mathematics from the University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., in 1987. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from The University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., in 1997 for his study on all optical networking beyond 10 Gbit/s.

He previously worked for British Telecom Research Laboratories as a Senior Research Engineer investigating the use of optical amplifiers and advanced modulation formats in optical networks and the Corning Research Centre as a Senior Research Fellow where he led activities in optical component characterization. From 2003, he headed the Transmission and Sensors Group at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland, where he was also a member of the Department of Physics, University College Cork and his research interests included the evolution of core and metro networks, and the application of photonics to sensing. 

He is now 50th Anniversary Professor of Optical Communications at Aston University where he is also deputy director of the Institute of Photonics Technologies (AiPT), and he holds adjunct professorships from University College Cork (Physics) and Dublin City University (RINCE). He has published over 200 journal papers and over 28 patents in the field of photonics, primarily targeted at increasing capacity, reach and functionality in the optical layer.

Prof. Ellis is a member of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He served for 6 years as an associate editor of the journal Optics Express. Prof Ellis has been a member of the Technical Program Committee of ECOC since 2004 and two three year terms on the TPC of OFC. He is currently participating in the organization of ECOC 2019.
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An "academic" career in photonics
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