Integrated Micro and Nano Systems

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Themis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and is Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers. His work focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory technologies and related applications and is leading an interdisciplinary team comprising 30 researchers with expertise ranging from materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for embedded applications. He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship. He is an Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia, visiting Professor at the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET and the Institute of Physics and is also Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano- Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 21 countries and in 2019 he founded SoneT.ai that is building new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering.

Istvan Gyongy received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Following a period in industry, where he worked on processors for smartphones and a cloud-connected activity tracking system for dairy farms, he joined the University of Edinburgh. His initial research at the University was on hydrodynamic modelling relating to the development of FloWave, the combined wave and current test facility. His research is now focused on the development of single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cameras and their application in a range of domains including LIDAR and the life sciences.

Dr Jonathan G. Terry is the Deputy Head of the Engineering Graduate School at the University of Edinburgh.  He joined the School of Engineering in early 1999 as a Post-doctoral Research Associate and later became a Chancellor’s Fellow. He currently lectures in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Discipline teaching undergraduate students in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th year, as well as those within the MSc Electronics programme.

He is based in the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, where his current research activities are in the production of smart sensor systems, exploiting the extensive toolset in place at the fabrication facilities of the Scottish Microelectronics Centre. These involve the development and use of novel fabrication processes and materials, and their integration with post-processed foundry CMOS circuitry. To date, his research has included the development of sensing systems for physical, biological, chemical, medical, astronomical and harsh environment applications.He is a named inventor on three patents and has authored over a hundred journal and conference publications.

Recent and current funded research projects include:

• IMPACT: Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy
• New Engineering Concepts from Phase Transitions: A Leidenfrost Engine
• EMBOSS: Enhanced Multiscale Boiling Surfaces - From Fundamentals to Design

• 1993 BEng(hons) Electronic Engineering (UMIST)
• 1994 MSc Microelectronic Materials and Device Technology (UMIST)
• 1998 PhD Solid State Electronics (UMIST)

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of the Technical Committee of IEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures
• Officer of the Scottish Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS)
• Regional Editor of the IEEE EDS Newsletter (UK, Middle East & Africa)
• Counsellor to the University of Edinburgh IEEE Student Branch

• Course Director: ELEE09021 Microelectronics 3
• Course Director: ELEE10017 Professional Issues for Engineers 4
• Course Director: PGEE11038 Microfabrication Techniques