Primary Job Title Proffessor Primary Organization University of Dundee
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Merv Rose is Professor of Physical Electronics and is Head of Division of Electronic Engineering and Physics at the University of Dundee in the UK. He has re established physics at Dundee as a Group of International strength with a focus on physics applied to life sciences and in renewable energy and initiated and designed the first Renewable
Energy undergraduate and postgraduate course in the UK. He started his research career in the Amorphous Materials Research Group working with W E Spear FRS and P G LeComber FRS in the field of thin film semiconductors working on thin film transistors and Displays, and obtained his Doctorate from Dundee on Advanced Memory Device Technology.
His research interests include, Thin Film Devices, (Green Energy) Materials, Nano-technology, Medical Devices and Displays. He is Director of the Amorphous Materials Research Group and his current work is on new nanocomposite materials for green energy and for biomedical applications using novel laser techniques. His work has also involved the development of a new electron source for display and medical applications which led to the creation of a spin out company, Quantum Filament Technologies Ltd where he was Founder and Technical Director. He was founder and Director of DisplayMasters, an Inter-University Masters Programme (with Edinburgh, Nottingham Trent, Oxford and Cambridge) aimed at training a new generation of Display Technologists for future advanced technology applications. His recent work in laser processing of thin films to modify external morphology and internal electronic structure has led to a new class of materials that can be tuned to many applications in biophysics and electronics, and for green energy. He was a finalist in the 2010 Thales Technology Prize for projects in this work. This includes material that shows near unity absorption of light in a new large area analogue of ‘black silicon’ which has applications in solar devices. Materials also being used to study the dynamics and mechanism of cell growth. Professor Rose sits on the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) consortium Committee for Knowledge Transfer.
He is a member of the EPSRC College, has acted as a panel member of the DTI/EPSRC LINK Information and Storage Device Committee, a DTI/TSB Technology Programme assessor and a DTI/TSB consultant on Display Technology and Memory Devices. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is a reviewer for a number of International journals. He has worked with the UK Government to promote British Science, including missions on nanotechnogy and optoelectronics to China, Korea and Taiwan and has given a number of invited talks across the world. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Advanced Technology Institute and an Advisor to the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH). Professor Rose has published over 150 journal, conference papers and related articles and holds a number of patents in the field of thin film semiconductors.
