Very many congratulations to the Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation’s Advisory Board Chair Prof Miles Padgett OBE!
Miles was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for “services to scientific research and outreach”.
He holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow and leads an Optics Research Group covering a wide spectrum from blue-sky research to applied commercial development, funded by a combination of government charity and industry.
Miles is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FINSTP), was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2001, a Fellow of the Optical Society in 2011, and a Fellow of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) in 2012, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014