Celtic Terahertz Technology

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27 years with the technology. Professor Emerita at Cardiff University. Winner of 2024 IoP James Joule medal for "outstanding work on the development and provision to the worldwide scientific community of metamaterial-based quasi-optical components for far infrared to millimetre wavelength astronomical instruments and other applications."

Co-author of: Physical Principles of Astronomical Instrumentation

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Clive has had a long career in the semiconductor industry, including with start-up companies. He has worked for Plessey Research, IQE, and Circadian Solar and more recently was Director of Operations, Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) at Cardiff University.

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Richard has 15 years' experience in R&D, along with teaching and management roles in academia (Swansea, Karlsruhe, Complutense, ORC Southampton, and Cardiff) and in industry (AWE, SPI Lasers, and CTT). He is a Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics.

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Peter is the Inventor of the CTT filter technology and one of the true founders of FIR astronomy. He is Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University. He directed the activity of the astronomical instrumentation research group for over 50 years, initially in London and more recently in Cardiff. He is a NASA public service medal holder (1994) and was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Jackson-Gwilt medal in 2009.

Along with our CEO he is a co-author of: Physical Principles of Astronomical Instrumentation

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Ken is a well-known figure in the terahertz research community with more than 40 years' experience developing cryogenic and detector instrumentation. He was awarded the Terahertz Technology Prize in 2022 by the Japanese International Symposium on Frontiers in THz Technology (FTT 2022). He has served for many years, now in an advisory role, on the International Organising Committee of the IRMMWTHz conference series, and was Chair of the 2007 edition of the conference at Cardiff in 2007.