Martin Dawson
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
Professor,University of Strathclyde
Election motivation
For notable contributions to the development of high-power and high-brightness optically-pumped semiconductor lasers, making extensive demonstrations of their exquisite performance as tuneable sources for spectroscopy and nonlinear optics.
Field of research
Photonics
Main Honors
Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
Aron Kessel Award of the IEEE Photonics Society
Nick Holonyak Jr Award from Optica/OSA
Global Solid State Lighting Award of Outstanding Achievement from ISA; Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Photonics Society.
Recognised in the award of the 2023 Queen’s Anniversary Prize to the University of Strathclyde for ‘Excellence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Photonics’
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences