Professor Steve Donnelly has been appointed the new Dean of Compu
Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:36:00 BST
Dear Colleagues
I am very pleased to announce that Professor Steve Donnelly has been appointed as the new Dean of Computing and Engineering with immediate effect.
Steve has a first degree in Experimental Physics from the University of Liverpool, a Masters degree in Atomic Collisions in Solids from the University of Sussex and a PhD which was sponsored by the UK Atomic Energy Authority and carried out in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford.
On completing his PhD studies, Steve spent eight years overseas at the University of Namur in Belgium and then at a government research laboratory (CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics) in Melbourne, Australia, before returning to the UK in 1986 to take up a lectureship (and later a readership) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford. In 1996, he moved to the Physics Department at Salford as Professor of Experimental Physics and took up various management roles including Dean of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Environment before moving to Huddersfield as Professor of Engineering Materials and Head of Department of Engineering and Technology in 2011. In January 2012, he became acting Dean of the School of Computing and Engineering.
Steve has spent extended periods working on collaborative projects at a number of laboratories overseas including Argonne National Laboratory in the US and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. He is also a fluent French speaker and has long-standing research collaborations with the University of Poitiers in France where he has been a visiting professor on a number of occasions. Steve has been an external examiner of PhD theses in France, Belgium and Quebec. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the French EMIR ion-accelerator network and of the the steering committee of the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM and of the user selection committee of the European SPIRIT ion-accelerator network.
Outside of work, Steve is a keen guitarist and dabbles inexpertly in multi-track recording!
I am sure that you will all join me in congratulating Steve as he takes on this important role for Team Huddersfield.
Bob Cryan
Vice-Chancellor
More information on Steve can be found at the following web-site:
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