Simon Chandler

Current

• Senior Scientist at TeraView Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Past

• Principal Engineer in the Semiconductor Devices Group at Agilent Technologies, Ipswich, UK
• Product Development Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Ltd, Bristol, UK

Education

• University of Cambridge
• University of Sussex
• Sible Hedingham School

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Industry

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Simon Chandler’s Summary

Experimental physicist with 17 years experience of product development in multi-national manufacturing organizations and in a small technology startup company. My broad range of experience includes both project management and technical operations in spectroscopy and imaging with terahertz optics; high-speed infra-red lasers; semiconductor tranceivers for fibre-optic data communications; information data storage; scanning probe microscopy; tribology; and superconductivity.

Simon Chandler’s Specialties:

Measurement and characterization, particularly computer-controlled data acquisition and analysis. Respected by colleagues for my structured and thorough working style, and for my analytical skills.

Simon Chandler’s Experience

• Senior Scientist

  TeraView Ltd, Cambridge, UK

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  2003 — Present (5 years)

  Startup company developing terahertz imaging and spectroscopy solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, medical and security sectors. Many projects are client-specific contracts.
  
  • Project manager and design authority for bespoke spectrometer with measurement of samples in transmission or reflection at 500mm stand-off distance.
  • Designed, built and evaluated the world’s first multi-channel terahertz system for detecting concealed plastic explosives and non-metallic weapons.
  • Developed software and hardware that enables non-destructive testing of multi-layer tablets by customers in pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing quality control.
  • Developed manufacturing process for fibre-optic based terahertz emitters and detectors.
  • Built prototype medical probe for diagnosing skin cancer.
  • Use ZEMAX software to design NIR and THz optics.