Professor Penty will oversee strategy, teaching, research, and fundraising activities within the School
The School of Technology will be headed by Professor Richard Penty from Michaelmas term 2023. Professor Penty is currently the Deputy Head of the School of Technology. He has been Master of Sidney Sussex College since 2013 and has been Professor of Photonics in the Engineering Department since 2002.
Following his undergraduate degree in Engineering and Electrical Sciences Professor Penty completed his Masters and PhD at Cambridge, before taking up Lecturer posts at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol.
Returning to Cambridge, Professor Penty was appointed Assistant Director of Research in the Engineering Department in 2001, and then a Fellow in Engineering at Sidney Sussex in 2002. His research interests include photonic integration, optical data communications and quantum communications. He is the author of over 900 journal and conference publications, and has presented on his research around the world. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academic of Engineering.
As Head of the School of Technology, Professor Penty will oversee strategy, teaching, research, and fundraising activities within the School. As a senior member of the University he will also contribute to central decision making, and facilitate innovation and entrepreneurial decisions in the interests of the School of Technology.