Martin Dawson

Martin Dawson is Distinguished Professor and Director of Research at the University of Strathclyde's Institute of Photonics (IoP), which he helped establish over 25 years ago. He is also, since 2012, the inaugural Head and Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, which is co-located with IoP. Together these two organisations employ over 100 research staff and doctoral students. Martin is known as a pioneer of micro-LED technology. He holds fellowships of IEEE, Optica/OSA, UK Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he has received a number of awards for his work. These include, in 2016, the Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and the Aron Kressel Award of the IEEE Photonics Society, and in 2021 the Nick Holonyak Jr Award from Optica/OSA, the Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Photonics Society, and the Global Solid State Lighting Award of Outstanding Achievement from ISA, the International Solid State Lighting Alliance.