Jane Ireland is the Science Area Leader of the Optical Radiometric Metrology Group at NPL. She received an MPhys in 1999, and PhD in 2002, both from the University of Birmingham. The PhD, undertaken in the Condensed Matter Group, examined spin-polarised injection into high temperature superconductors. Jane is also a Chartered Engineer.
Jane has been at NPL for more than 20 years, initially working in the Optical Radiation Group, specialising in the field of cryogenic radiometry. She moved to the Quantum Electrical Metrology Group in 2011 to work on cryogenic current comparators as well as the development of superconducting read-out electronics for single photon detector arrays.
She then led the area of quantum voltage waveform metrology. In particular, the use of Josephson junction arrays to synthesise quantum-accurate arbitrary voltage waveforms for application in the characterisation of devices and instrumentation. This work was part of several multidisciplinary European collaborations. In 2022 Jane returned to the Optical Radiometric Metrology Group to lead facility upgrade projects in key capability areas.
Areas of interest
During her time at NPL, Jane has worked on a wide variety of projects. These included fundamental and applied research as well as instrumentation development. Her current areas of interest include:
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Spectroradiometry
- Cryogenic Radiometry
- Primary Electrical Measurement
- Instrumentation design, testing and validation