Prof. Themis Prodromakis of Centre for Electronics Frontiers, Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, University of Southampton, UK

Biography:

Themis is Professor of Nanotechnology and Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers at the University of Southampton, UK. His work focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory (memristor) technologies and related applications and is leading an interdisciplinary team comprising 30 researchers with expertise ranging from materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for embedded applications. He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship. He is an Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia, visiting Professor at the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at Tsinghua University, and an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET, and the Institute of Physics and is also a Senior Member of the IEEE. He also serves as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology (ICoN) and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nanoelectronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterization of novel nanodevices in over 20 countries, and in 2019 he founded SoneT.ai which is building new power-efficient hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognized as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering.