Leon Lobo

Focussed on developing and delivering a national timing strategy, Dr Leon Lobo is Head of the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme at NPL. The NTC will be developing capability toward a national resiliency in timing for our expanding digital infrastructure, stimulating the development of an assured supply chain and addressing the skills gap for time and frequency technologies and dissemination solutions. 

A chartered engineer, with a PhD in high power laser material processing, Dr Lobo joined NPL in 2011 as Group Leader for the Time & Frequency group, working with the team managing the UK’s time scale and developing quantum frequency standards. He led the team developing NPLTime®, NPL’s certified fibre-delivered time dissemination solution to the City of London for high frequency trading systems and regulatory compliance.