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Allister FergusonUniversity of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Physics Department-Allister Ferguson
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Allister FergusonAllister Ferguson 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 is 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 Haensch.
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.
In addition to running a successful research group, 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.He has responsibility for research strategy and policy and has overseen the university's submission to RAE 2008.He has devised and implemented a new strategy, which has led to a very significant increase in research awards and success rates.He has responsibility for all aspects of knowledge exchange and in particular for all policy aspects of spin-out and licensing activity across the university.
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.
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