Dawson Martin

Martin Dawson is Distinguished Professor and Director of Research at the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics, which he helped establish in 1996. He is also, since 2012, the Head and Scientific Director of the UK’s first Fraunhofer research centre, the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics. Prof. Dawson was one of the founders of the field of micro-LEDs and his group and their collaborators have pioneered much of that technology, contributing extensively to its development for over 22 years. More broadly, his research includes/has included ultrafast lasers, diamond photonics, optically-pumped semiconductor lasers, visible light communications, and semiconductor heterogeneous integration by techniques including transfer printing and ink-jet printing. In 2022 he was elected FRS - a fellow of the UK’s Royal Society - and he also holds fellowships of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Optica/OSA, IEEE and the Institute of Physics (IOP). He has received a number of awards for his work including Optica’s Nick Holonyak Jr Award and ISA’s Global Solid State Lighting Award of Outstanding Achievement.