Professor Ferrari elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Pembroke Fellow Professor Andrea Ferrari (2001) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Andrea Ferrari is Professor of Nanotechnology, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is one of 69 leading figures in the field of engineering and technology that have been recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering this year.
Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “Our Fellows represent the best of the best in the engineering world, and we welcome these 69 excellent and talented professionals to our community of business people, entrepreneurs, innovators and academics.”
Professor Ferrari FREng said: "The mission of the Cambridge Graphene Centre is to investigate the science and technology of graphene and related materials. This engineering innovation centre allows our partners to meet, and effectively establish joint industrial-academic activities to promote innovative and adventurous research with an emphasis on applications. It is often at the interface between academia and industry that new challenges for fundamental research are generated. I am pleased the Royal Academy of Engineering has recognized the translational potential of our work and I see this as a further encouragement to develop state of the art facilities that will lead to world class research, technology and innovation. I am grateful to Pembroke College for being such a wonderful for great things to happen."
Professor Ferrari's research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. In particular, he focuses on graphene, nanotubes, diamond-like carbon, and nanowires for applications in electronics and photonics.
He is a world authority on the characterisation of carbon materials, including diamond-like carbon, nanotubes and graphene. His work underpins the interpretation of Raman scattering in carbon-materials and is a worldwide standard in industry. Collaborations with industry have enabled the pull-through of sciences to technologies in several areas. He is a global leader in graphene and related materials engineering, having pioneered many areas, from mass scale identification by spectroscopic means, to their implementation in printed and flexible electronics, photodetectors, modulators, lasers, and plasmonic structures.
Professor Ferrari is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the Materials Research Society, of the Institute of Physics, of the Optical Society, of the European Academy of Sciences, of the Academia Europaea, and of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The new Fellows will be admitted to the Academy, which comprises of nearly 1,700 engineers, at its AGM on 22 September. The Academy was founded in 1976 to champion excellence in all fields of engineering and honour the UK’s most distinguished engineers. Its current strategy is to create a sustainable society and an inclusive economy for all by growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public.