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Brief Biography
Dr. Stuart A Kingsley is a Londoner, who was
born in Stoke Newington in 1948, and grew up in South Tottenham. In 1967,
he started a thin sandwich electrical engineering course at City University
and Thorn Electrical Industries, and obtained a B.Sc. Honours degree in
1972. Later that year he started a postgraduate degree in the
Electronics & Electrical Engineering Department, University College
London, specializing in the then new field of fibre optics. After his
Ph.D. course, Stuart worked for six years as a Research Assistant in the same
department before leaving in June 1981 for an “adventure” in the United
States. There, he went to work for Battelle
Columbus Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio as a Principal Research
Scientist. In 1984, he and his Ph.D. supervisor, Professor, Sir D.E.N.
Davies, were honoured at the Royal
Society with the prestigious Rank
Prize for Optoelectronics, given for their major contribution to fibre optics. At that time this was
only the second occasion that it had been presented for that scientific
field. Stuart subsequently became a Senior Research Scientist at
Battelle, and in 1987 left the company to become a photonics
consultant. In 1990, Stuart helped start a small photonics company, SRICO, Inc., which he subsequently became its
VP of Engineering and then its Chief
Scientist. This was also the time that Stuart started his “extracarricular” promotion of Optical SETI. For family reasons, he
left Columbus to return to the UK in January 2008, and settled in
Bournemouth. He now works part-time as a fibre-optic consultant (Fiberdyne Optoelectronics), and
continues his relationship with SRICO, Inc. as their International
Consultant. He maintains a number of web sites, including www.coseti.org, and www.boseti.org. Dr. Kingsley is a
UK/US citizen, a Member of the British Institution of Engineering &
Technology (IET, formerly the IEE), Senior
Member of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member of the Eta Kappu Nu Society,
and a Chartered Engineer.
Detailed Biography
A detailed resume may be downloaded
from here.
Contact Information:
Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Tel: +44(0)1202-296377, +44(0)1208-090-4574, +(0)7857352209, and
+(1)614-258-7402
skingsley@fiberdyneoptoelectronics.com
www.fiberdyneoptoelectronics.com
First Upload: October 05, 2009
Last Update: February 02, 2010
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