Ron Lawes

Ron Lawes retired as Director of Engineering at the Rutherford Appleton and Daresbury Laboratories, CCLRC in 2003. A key responsibility was Head of the Central Microstructure Facility, which he founded in 1977 and developed into a major centre of excellence for new microtechnology and nanoscience.

MANCEF Contributions

Prof. Lawes was the organizing chair of COMS 2001 in Oxford, England. Ron is currently a General Board (Europe) member, and a member of the Education and the Conference and Workshops Committees. He was also a Chapter leader on the 1st Edition MANCEF International Micro Nano Roadmap.

Career

While principally involved with the UK academic community, he has a long track record of working closely with industry. He was Director of a $40m programme funded by UK industry and government to develop industrial microfabrication techniques and Chairman of the Research Board for the $4B JESSI project (now MEDEA) to develop Europe's industrial technology for semiconductors.

Ron was a founding member of NEXUS, Europe's main industrial-academic organisation for microsystems technology and recently worked on the NEXUS Market Analysis and the NEXUS Product-technology Roadmap. He held the contract for Europractice, a pan-European programme to provide microsystems manufacturing services for European industry and academia. He is a director of a start-up microsystems company MINIFAB, based in Melbourne, Australia.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is continuing his interests in MEMS at Imperial College, London and as a Director of MiniFAB (Aus).

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