Biography

Douglas Paul has an MA degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics and a PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a chartered physicist, a Senior Member of the IEEE, was a Fellow of St. Edmund's College in Cambridge, an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and managed all the Si/SiGe research in the Cavendish Laboratory before taking up a Professorial position at the University of Glasgow in 2007.
He was the recipient of the Institute of Physics President's Medal in 2014.
Prof Paul presently sits on a number of government department committees including the Scientific Expert Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and previously sat on the Home Office CBRN Scientific Advisory Committee and the Government Office of Science DTI Foresight Committees. He was the U.K. representative to the NATO CBP Science Panel between 2004 and 2008.
He was one of the editors for the 1st Technology Roadmap on European Nanoelectronics, a significant part of which is now in the ITRS Roadmap Future Emerging Technology section and gave evidence at the House of Lords to the Lords Select Committee panel on 'Chips for Everything'.
He is responsible for the EC ZEROPOWER network for writing a roadmap on self-powered autonomous systems and energy harvesting systems. He is also involved in organising a number of EC ZEROPOWER workshops and summer schools on energy harvesting.
Prof Paul was a member of the Council for Industry and Higher Education Task Force Working Party on Enhancing Value: getting the most out of UK Research.
He sits on the scientific, programme and / or organising committees for a number of international conference series including the IEEE 12th International Conference on Nanotechnology, the International IEEE Conference on Group IV Photonics, the International SiGe Technology and Device Meeting, the SiGe, Ge, & Related Compounds Symposium and the International Conference on Silicon Epitaxy and Heterostructures.
His research interests include nanofabrication, quantum technologies, Si/SiGe heterostructures, nanoelectronic silicon devices, quantum cascade lasers, quantum devices, silicon photonics, plasmonics for mid-infrared applications, terahertz systems, sensors and thermoelectrics.