Professor Keith Mathieson FRSE

Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde

Keith Mathieson received his B.Sc./Ph.D degrees in physics from Glasgow University in 1997 and 2001 and was a recipient of an RSE Personal Research Fellowship (2005) to develop retinal implants. He was awarded an SU2P Fellowship (2009) to work at Stanford on the development of an optoelectronic retinal prosthesis. He took up an academic position at the University of Strathclyde (2011), where he holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Professorial Chair in Emerging Technologies and served as Director of the Institute of Photonics from 2013-2022. His research interests focus on the development of neurotechnologies to further understanding of the brain.

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