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Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden FRS FREng FIET FIEEE FCGI (born 5 March 1956 in Kingston upon Hull) is vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton in Southampton, United Kingdom. He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015.〔UNIVERSITIES UK ANNOUNCES PRESIDENT FOR 2013 - 2015 http://surrey.ac.uk/mediacentre/press/2012/93554_universities_uk_announces_president_for_2013_2015.htm〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/highereducation/Pages/ProfessorDameJuliaGoodfellowelectedPresidentofUniversitiesUKfor2015-2017.aspx#. )〕 ==Early career== Snowden studied electronic and electrical engineering at the University of Leeds, gaining a BSc in 1977, an MSc and a PhD in 1982. His PhD involved microwave oscillators for radar applications and semiconductor device modelling. He conducted his PhD research at Racal-MESL Ltd near Edinburgh in Scotland as well as at the University of Leeds.〔(Biographical details from the EPSRC website )〕 Snowden was an applications engineer for Mullard Applications Laboratory from 1977-78. He lectured at the Department of (Electronics ) in the University of York from 1982-83. From 1983-2005 he was a member of staff at the University of Leeds, his former alma mater, working in the Department of (Electrical and Electronic Engineering ), becoming professor of microwave engineering in 1992 until 2005. He was head of the school from 1995–98 and for a while was warden of Bodington Hall. Whilst at Leeds he was a founder of the (Institute of Microwave and Photonics ). He supervised 50 successful PhD students. He has also worked at M/A-COM in the US from 1989-91 as senior staff scientist in the Corporate Research and Development Centre, based just outside Boston. In 1998 he was appointed to the board of Filtronic plc as executive director of technology, where he initiated the Global Technology Group. He was subsequently appointed joint chief executive officer of Filtronic plc in 1999. As the company grew in 2001 he became chief executive officer of Filtronic ICS, responsible for compound semiconductor business and fabrication facilities in the UK and US (including the world's largest 150 mm gallium arsenide wafer facility at that time), defence businesses in the UK and US, module assembly and point-point microwave transceiver businesses.〔(News Story from Filtronic's website )〕 He has held a number of consultancy positions including positions with General Electric (US), M/A-Com inc (US), Filtronic Comtek, Lucas-Variety (UK), Filtronic plc and Diamond Microwave Devices Ltd (UK). He was also a visiting professor at Durham until 2005 and a visiting scientist at the Delft University of Technology from 1996-98. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Snowden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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