email:alan.mathewson@tyndall.ie

Phone: +353 21 4904142

 BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Dr Alan Mathewson  graduated with a BSc in Physical Electronics from Northumbria University (U.K) in 1978 and worked for Plessey Research (Caswell) and Racal Research (Reading)  limited in the UK until 1982. He joined the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC). In the then NMRC he initially worked on the installation of the Silicon fabrication areas and developed new technology options based upon CMOS core technology. This was based upon an in depth study of device operation through detailed characterisation and numerical process and device simulation. This research activity has lead to a substantial research income for the Centre over the past two decades and a high level of recognition at a world wide level. He was awarded the PhD from UCC in 1995 for his work on CMOS Compatible Avalanche Photodiode Arrays.

Until March 2005 Dr Mathewson was technically responsible for the Transducers Group within the Tyndall National Institute (formerly NMRC) which involved technical management of a broad spectrum of Si based Technology systems and design activities, as well as  the development of silicon based Nano/Biotechnology devices. He  has had responsibility for lecturing in UCC on Solid State / Semiconductor Device Physics at Postgraduate and Undergraduate Level.

Dr Mathewson has worked as an interface between industry and academic research activities to identify and support mutually beneficial projects which lead to postgraduate degrees. To date twenty two PhDs and more than forty M.Eng.Sc projects have been supervised to completion on industrially relevant topics through this interaction and more than two hundred and fifty publications in peer reviewed specialist journal and conference proceedings have been presented. In addition, six patents have been taken out and work is currently ongoing to identify exploitation pathways for some of the more recent innovations.

Dr Mathewson is also one of the founders of a small IP based spin off company from NMRC (SensL technologies with target markets in the nano and biotechnology imaging domains). SensL was established with VC funding in 2004 to exploit fifteen years of continuous research into applications of avalanche photodiodes and their associated control circuitry.

In April 2005  Dr Mathewson moved To CEA – LETi to participate in a two and a half year sabbatical period where he was working on advanced three dimensional  packaging technologies. He has now returned to Tyndall where he is responsible for the development of technologies for heterogeneously integrated systems