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Brief Biography of Dr. Jeremy R. Watling

I was born in Norwich, Norfolk where I was raised and educated. Obtaining a BSc Joint Hons (First Class) in Mathematics and Physics in 1994 from the School of Physics at the University of East Anglia (UEA). After this I stayed on within the School of Physics completed my PhD studies also in Semiconductor Device Modelling in 1998, with a thesis entitled 'Carrier Transport in Quantum Well Structures', under the supervision of Dr Alison Walker, who taught me many useful things. My PhD studies involved the following main projects:

Simulation of Carrier Loss in Quantum Well Lasers due to Auger Recombination

References:

S. J. Sweeney, A. R. Adams, M. Silver, E. P. O'Reilly, J. R. Watling, A. B. Walker, P. J. A. Thijs 'Dependence of threshold current on QW position and on pressure in 1.5痠 InGaAs(P) lasers' Physica Status Solidi B-Basic Research, 211, pp. 525-531, 1999

Electron Transport in Delta-doped GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAs/InAlAs Quantum Wells (lattice matched and strained)

References:

J. R. Watling, A. B. Walker, J. J. Harris and J. M. Roberts 'Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in highly delta-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells' Semiconductor Science and Technology, 13, pp. 43-53, 1998

J. R. Watling, A. B. Walker, J. J. Harris and J. M. Roberts 'Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in delta-doped lattice-matched and strained-balanced InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wells' Semiconductor Science and Technology, 14, pp. 12-22, 1999

Unfortunately, I will probably have been one of the last to graduate in Physics from the UEA, as the School of Physics was closed shortly after I graduated. But nevertheless proving that you can't keep a good physicist down, most of the School of Physics at UEA moved to the University of Bath, significantly enlarging and enhancing the Physics Department there.

During my happy years within the modelling group at UEA, I developed an interest in the modelling of carrier transport in nanoscale semiconductor devices, addressing both physics and engineering questions. To maintain this interest I moved up North and across the border to the University of Glasgow, joining the device modelling group in Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and where I currently still am.

I am at present a lecturer within the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and a member of the Device Modelling Group. Holding an active EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship. I have published many papers on the modeling and simulation of nanoscale device operation, employing a variety of techniques. I have been investigator or co-investigator on grants from SEMATECH, the EU, and of course EPSRC.