David Childs

University of Glasgow
david.childs@glasgow.ac.uk
2017 Cruciblist

David T.D. Childs (M’15) received the B.Sc. degree in Physics, the. M.Sc. degree in Semiconductor Science and Technology from Imperial College, London in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He continued at Imperial where he received his PhD in Properties and applications of 1.3um InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Devices in 2002. He was then with the R&D Department of Marconi Optical Components (latter Bookham, now Oclaro) at the Caswell semiconductor research and fabrication facility until 2006, where he was responsible for the development of a range of telecoms lasers.

During this time, he also worked on several European projects developing Quantum Dot technology. Following this he joined the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. There he was engaged in a number of projects developing semiconductor light sources from visible through to THz wavelengths. He was also involved in developing systems to demonstrate the application of semiconductor devices to fields ranging from selective laser melting (3D printing), to mid-infrared hyper-spectral imaging (biomedical imaging).

Since 2015 he is a lecturer in the Electronic and Nanoscale Engineering group within the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow.

He has contributed to over 100 journal and conference publications. His research interests span from semiconductor light emitter development through photonic integration to the applications of these devices and systems from communications to biomedicine.