Allister I. Ferguson
Professor Ferguson is a native of Aberdeen and was educated at Aberdeen Academy and the University of St. Andrews where he obtained a first class honours BSc and PhD in physics.
After completing his PhD in lasers and nonlinear optics, he was awarded a Lindemann Fellowship that enabled him to spend time as a visiting scholar at Stanford University where he worked with the Nobel Laureates Art Schawlow and Ted Hänsch.
He has held academic posts at the University of Oxford where he was a Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Southampton and in 1998 took up the Chair of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde.
At the University of Strathclyde he founded Microlase Optical Systems Ltd (now Coherent Scotland Ltd), the Institute of Photonics (where he is the Technical Director) and the Centre for Biophotonics (where he is Associate Director). Since August 2004 he has been the Deputy Principal with responsibility for research, knowledge exchange.
He is the Principal Investigator on the RCUK Science Bridges Award which underpins the SU2P project.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institute for Contemporary Scotland and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
After completing his PhD in lasers and nonlinear optics, he was awarded a Lindemann Fellowship that enabled him to spend time as a visiting scholar at Stanford University where he worked with the Nobel Laureates Art Schawlow and Ted Hänsch.
He has held academic posts at the University of Oxford where he was a Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Southampton and in 1998 took up the Chair of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde.
At the University of Strathclyde he founded Microlase Optical Systems Ltd (now Coherent Scotland Ltd), the Institute of Photonics (where he is the Technical Director) and the Centre for Biophotonics (where he is Associate Director). Since August 2004 he has been the Deputy Principal with responsibility for research, knowledge exchange.
He is the Principal Investigator on the RCUK Science Bridges Award which underpins the SU2P project.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institute for Contemporary Scotland and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.