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NPL and the University of Surrey have been strategic partners since 2015 with the aim of combining expertise and knowledge to address key national challenges. These include communication and digital challenges, healthcare solutions and protecting people and the environment.
Since joining NPL in 2015, Dr Thompson has overseen the development and growth of the organisation, aligned to the UK’s national challenges. He holds a number of international advisory positions and has a passion for diversity and inclusion in science and engineering, which make him well placed to support the University of Surrey’s goals.
Dr Thompson’s appointment is the latest development within a strategic partnership that links NPL to two UK universities: Surrey and Strathclyde. Since the partnership began in 2015, there have been a number of collaborative research projects, including programmes designed to ensuring the country’s future telecommunications systems and 5G are secure, and using Surrey’s Ion Beam Centre to research strain in single-crystal silicon. There is strong collaboration with regard to sharing access to specialist laboratories facilities including the new SEISMIC research facility.
“Although I’m located in the School of Maths and Physics for my visiting professorship, I am looking forward to learning about activities across the University, including its two research institutes” says Dr Thompson, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the recipient of the Institute of Physics Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize in 2022 for outstanding leadership of the National Physical Laboratory and the sustained impact of metrology on UK prosperity and quality of life. He continues: “Metrology – the scientific study of measurement – matters to all areas.”
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14 Jun 2023