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News Release from: University of Surrey
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 July 2004
Microwave specialist named
as next Vice-Chancellor
The University of Surrey has appointed Prof Christopher M Snowden, FREng, CEng, FIEE, FIEEE as its Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive with effect from 1st July 2005
Prof Snowden will succeed Professor Patrick J Dowling, CBE, DL, FREng, FRS, who will retire from office on 30th June 2005. Prof Snowden is currently Joint Chief Executive Officer at Filtronic, the UK's most successful university spinout company with 18 operations worldwide and sales of over $450 million.
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He is also Professor of Microwave Engineering at the University of Leeds and a Visiting Professor in Physics at the University of Durham.
He has held a personal Chair of Microwave Engineering at the University of Leeds since 1992 and during the period 1995-98 he was Head of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
He was the founder and first Director of the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics located in the school.
During his time at Leeds he has supervised 49 successful PhD candidates to date.
He is still actively involved in research at Leeds.
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Prof Snowden is aged 48.
He is married with two children and his interests include painting and photography.
Welcoming his appointment, Sir William Wells, Chairman of Council, said: "I am delighted that we have appointed Professor Snowden as the University's next Vice-Chancellor".
"He will bring a unique blend of academic excellence and industrial experience to the role and build on the university's many successes over the last few years".
"Professor Snowden will be joining a strong and committed team at UniS and I am sure that under his leadership the university will go from strength to strength".
Prof Snowden said: "I am honoured and delighted to be appointed and look forward to leading the university forward, gaining further recognition as a world-class institution in research, teaching, learning and enterprise".
"I am particularly keen to promote the drive for quality and success in all the University's endeavours, whilst fostering an environment that fully values its staff and students".
Prof Snowden is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE (Electron Devices Society).
He was recently awarded the 2004 Royal Academy of Engineering's Silver Medal for his outstanding contributions to the UK microwave semiconductor industry.
He was awarded the 1999 Microwave Prize of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society - only the second UK citizen to win this award in 50 years.
He has written eight books and over 280 journal and conference papers.
Prof Snowden is a Nonexecutive Director of Intense Photonics, which manufactures integrated optoelectronic products and a Nonexecutive Director of Cenamps, which is involved in microsystems and nanotechnology.
He is a member of the UK's National Advisory Committee on Electronic Materials and Devices and has advised on two of the Office of Science and Technology/DTI Foresight Programmes.
He also advises regional development agencies on technical and industrial investment strategies.
He is Deputy Chairman of the European Microwave Association and is a member of the IEEE's Compound semiconductor device Technology Committee.
He is also an active member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society serving on several of its committees.
After graduating from the University of Leeds in 1977 Prof Snowden worked for Mullard.
He subsequently completed a joint programme between Leeds and Sheffield, an innovative arrangement at the time, graduating with an MSc from Leeds.
His PhD studies were later conducted in association with Racal-MESL, Edinburgh, and were concerned with design of microwave oscillators for radar applications.
He won the Leeds FW Carter Prize for the best PhD in his year.
He subsequently joined the newly formed Department of Electronics as a Lecturer at the University of York before moving to the University of Leeds where he became a Senior Lecturer, also serving for a time as the Warden of Bodington Hall, the University of Leeds' largest hall of residence.
He later worked as the Senior Staff Scientist in Corporate Research and Development at M/A-Com in the USA, where he was responsible for managing joint development programmes with AT and T and Westinghouse.
He has been a consultant for several other major microwave electronics companies in the USA and UK.
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