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Ron Lawes Ron Lawes retired as Director of Engineering at the Rutherford Appleton and Daresbury Laboratories, CCLRC in 2003. A key responsibility was Head of the Central Microstructure Facility, which he founded in 1977 and developed into a major centre of excellence for new microtechnology and nanoscience. He is currently a Director of MiniFAB, a bio-orientated MEMS company in Australia and of SSTRIC, a commercial spin-out from Edinburgh University specializing in MEMS R&D for industry.
He maintains his academic interests as Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London and Birmingham University and through lectures at various other UK universities.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Engineer and a chartered Physicist.
MANCEF Contributions
Prof. Lawes was the organizing chair of COMS 2001 in Oxford, England. He was a Chapter leader on the 1st Edition MANCEF International Micro Nano Roadmap and a member of the Education Committee
He has served on the Technical Committee for each COMS meeting since 2001.
Prof Lawes is currently an Associate VP – Africa and Europe.
Career
While principally involved with the UK academic community, he has a long track record of working closely with industry. He was Director of a $40m programme funded by UK industry and government to develop industrial microfabrication techniques and Chairman of the Research Board for the $4B JESSI project (now MEDEA) to develop Europe's industrial technology for semiconductors.
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