School of Electrical Electronic Engineering

Role(s): Professor, Academic

Biography

Mike Somekh graduated from oxford University in materials Science and completed a PhD in Microwave Electronics from Lancaster University in 1981.

He subsequently returned to Oxford to work on Contrast Mechanism in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy, firstly as a research associate, then as an EPSRC Research Fellow. He was then lecturer and head of the Wolfson Unit for Micro-NDE at the University College for three years.

In 1989 he came to the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Nottingham, and was promoted to Reader in 1992 and Professor of Optical Engineering in 1995, the post he now holds. Mike founded the Applied Optics Group, and is head of research in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

In 2007 he became co-director of IBIOS (the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science) with Prof. Paul O’Shea.

Current research

• Wide range of non-destructive characterisation techniques involving optical, thermal and ultrasonic waves

• surface characterisation and materials assessment

Current Teaching

• Imaging Principles and Technology with Project (H64IPP) Level 4

• Imaging Principles and Technology (H64IPT) Level 4