The Society of Glass Technology (SGT) has elected Angela Seddon as their 59th President. She aims to work towards the continued success of the SGT, widening the international reach to Japanese and Indian colleagues. Most importantly she will enable the SGT to promote glass science, glass technology, glass optics and photonics, to early-stage engineers and scientists.
Prof Seddon began her career as a British Telecom Research Fellow developing new mid-infrared fibreoptics in the Department of Materials at the University of Sheffield. Within the year, 1984, Prof Seddon was awarded a ‘New Blood’ Lectureship in Glass Fibreoptics at Sheffield and became the first female academic appointment since the Department of Glass Technology’s inception in 1937.
In 2000, she became the first female Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. She now leads the Mid-Infrared Photonics Group (within Optics and Photonics) with World-class facilities for fabricating mid-infrared chalcogenide glass fibreoptics. Her research vision is to create a new paradigm in real-time mid-infrared endoscopy for early cancer diagnosis, based on chalcogenide glass fibre-optics. Towards this aim, her research group has made record transparency chalcogenide glass optical fibre for the mid-infrared, and first-in-the-World mid-infrared both narrowband and broadband fibre lasers operating beyond 4 microns’ wavelength. One is now a commercially available product named Aurora Nordic Brand Light Solutions (NORBLIS). Special mention should be made of Dr David Furniss, who has run the Mid-Infrared Photonics labs. since 1990.
Prof Seddon has > 300 publications, eight book chapters and delivered > 100 invited lectures. She is elected Fellow of: the Society of Glass Technology, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers(SPIE) for distinguished and valuable contributions to the field of optics and photonics. Prof Seddon is elected Trustee of the Royal Institution, London.
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