Duncan Robertson promoted to Research Professor!
Duncan as a PhD student 1991-1994 (left) and today as Research Professor (right).
Many congratulations to Duncan Robertson for his promotion to Professorial Research Fellow!
Duncan came to St Andrews as an undergraduate in 1987 for a BSc degree in Physics and Electronics, before starting a PhD in the mm-wave group in 1991 on “Quasi-optical signal processing and spread spectrum techniques”. This was then followed by a research fellowship in the mm-wave group, a principal microwave engineer at RACAL (Edinburgh) followed by a position in the Photonics Innovation Centre in St Andrews. In 2004, he was persuaded to rejoin the mm-wave group as technical manager on the Basic Technology HiPER program. Subsequently, he independently initiated and drove forward multiple radar research programmes in the group as a “standard” Research Fellow, before being made a Senior Research Fellow in 2014 and a Principal Research Fellow in 2018, when he also became Director of Impact and Innovation.
Duncan now has an amazing track record in delivering on a huge number of high profile mm-wave instrumentation projects (worth multiple £millions across multiple areas of science) that has deservedly earnt him a major national and international reputation in his field. Duncan is well known for his collegiality, efficiency, supervision and sense of humour and he has been an outstanding Director of Impact and Innovation. He is almost unique in now achieving a Research Professorship at St Andrews through a pure research fellow route, without either first lecturing or obtaining a fellowship, which is a tremendous tribute to the overall excellence of his work.
Prof. Graham Smith, Aug 2024.