Professor Martin Dawson
Institute of Photonics
Personal statement
Professor Martin D. Dawson FRS FRSE FIEEE FOSA FInstP is a physicist known for his work on lasers and compound semiconductors. He is Director of Research in the 吃瓜tv鈥檚 Institute of Photonics, which he helped establish 28 years ago, and he was also appointed inaugural Head and Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (Fh-CAP), the UK's only Fraunhofer research centre, in 2012. Martin has over 35 years鈥� experience of applied research gained in academia and industry in the UK and USA and he has been involved in the formation and technical development of a number of spin-out businesses, most recently including mLED and Neuro-VLC. He gave the Rank Prize Lecture in 2014 and the Edwards Lecture in 2023 and he has received awards including Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics; Aron Kessel Award of the IEEE Photonics Society; Nick Holonyak Jr Award from Optica/OSA; Global Solid State Lighting Award of Outstanding Achievement from ISA; Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Photonics Society. He and his group have twice been awarded the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award (2019 and 2022). He and his colleagues' contributions were recognised in the award of the 2023 Queen's Anniversary Prize to the 吃瓜tv for 'Excellence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Photonics'.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 1/11/2023
- Recipient
- 1/2/2023
- Recipient
- 15/7/2022
- Recipient
- 2022
- Recipient
- 1/11/2021
- Recipient
- 1/11/2021
Publications
- , , Ghosh Saptarsi, , , Kappers Menno, , Oliver Rachel A,
- Optics Letters Vol 51, pp. 993-996 (2026)
- , Verdier Antonin, , , Callas Ella, , Aniorte Alicia, Mabrouk Kakaouia Eya, Pereyra Magdalena, , Bathellier Brice,
- Nature Communications Vol 17 (2026)
- McKendry JJD, , , Ruschel J, Rass J, Einfeldt S, ,
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- Peng Kun, Morgan Nicholas P, , Wagner Ford M, Siday Thomas, Xia Chelsea Q, Dede Didem, Boureau Victor, Piazza Valerio, , , , , Fu Lan, Tan Hark H, Jagadish Chennupati, Morral Anna Fontcuberta i, Johnston Michael B
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- McKendry Jonathan, , Shao Yingjie, , ,
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Vol 37, pp. 1451-1454 (2025)
- , Babadi Sina, Majlesein Behnaz, Osahon Isaac N O, McKendry Jonathan J D, , , Haas Harald,
- Optics Express Vol 33, pp. 51383-51391 (2025)
Professional Activities
- Participant
- 25/10/2025
- Advisor
- 2025
- Advisor
- 1/1/2025
- Advisor
- 1/9/2024
- Advisor
- 1/1/2024
- Organiser
- 6/2/2023
Projects
- Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Haas, Harald (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Co-investigator) Tavakkolnia, Iman (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026
- Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Herrnsdorf, Johannes (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Gray, Johnathan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Cohen, Steven (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023