Mike Jennings

An interest in advanced power devices led Mike to undertake a Ph.D., which he was awarded from the University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., in 2008. The manufacturing-focus of his research allowed him to establish a strong industrial network. This naturally progressed to a five-year Senior Science City Research Fellowship, where he provided business assistance to numerous industrial partners from the semiconductor, power electronics and energy industry sectors. His main research interest lies in the field of new semiconductor materials for power electronics applications. His current research interests include silicon carbide and gallium oxide power devices and the manufacturability of advanced silicon MOSFETs and IGBTs. He currently holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship (3 years), which focusses on bringing the latest power semiconductor devices through to commercialisation. The fellowship position is based at Newport Wafer Fab, however Mike spends much of his time performing collaborative research across the South Wales Compound Semiconductor Cluster. He is also the principle investigator on a collaborative (industrial and academic partners) €8M Horizon 2020 cubic silicon carbide project, leading the power devices theme. Mike has served on many international committees including the European Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ECSCRM) and European Power Electronics (EPE).