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Graduating from Imperial College of Science and
Technology, Stephen Taylor spent a period in industry as
a design engineer. He obtained the M.Eng and Ph.D
degrees in 1983 and 1988 and then took up a lectureship
in the University of Liverpool, becoming a Reader in
2000. He is currently Course Director for the MSc in Micro
and Nanotechnology. His research interests include microelectronics and mass
spectrometry including novel applications in the
environmental and healthcare domains for gas analysis as
an aid to patient diagnosis. He has received a total of
35 research grants and contracts and has supervised over
28 PhD or PDRA’s.
He is the author or co-author of over 180
publications in the open scientific literature and a
guest editor for the ASMS journal. A former member of
the programme committee for the IEEE Semiconductor
Interface Specialist Conference (SISC) he became a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 2005.
In 1995 he co-invented and developed the (then)
world’s smallest mass spectrometer and the first to be microengineered in silicon. He has presented invited
talks at international conferences in Europe and in the
USA. In 2007 he was awarded an EPSRC Follow on Grant in
this area (co-funded by the ERA Foundation). |
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