User:Alan Shore

K. Alan Shore received a BA ( MA) mathematics from the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree from University College, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. He was a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in 1979–1983 and then at the University of Bath where he became a Senior Lecturer in 1986, a Reader in 1990, and a Professor in 1995. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, in 1987. In 1989, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands. During the summers of 1990 and 1991, he was with the Teledanmark Research Laboratory and the MIDIT Center of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby. He was a Guest Researcher at the Electrotechnical Laboratory Tsukuba, Japan, in 1991. In 1992, he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics, University de les Illes Balears, Palma-Mallorca, Spain. He was a Visiting Lecturer in the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, in June 1996 and 1998, and a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2008. In July/August 2001, he was a Visiting Researcher at the ATR Adaptive Communications Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

In 1995, he joined Bangor University as the Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, where he has been the Head of the School of Informatics and of the College of Physical and Applied Sciences. Between 2001 and 2008, he was the Director of “Industrial and Commercial Optoelectronics,” a Welsh Development Agency Centre of Excellence. He was the Chair of the Welsh Optoelectronics Forum from 2006 to 2008 and has chaired the Photonics Academy for Wales, since its establishment in 2005. From 2008 to 2011, he was the Chair of the Quantum Electronics Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. His research work has been principally in the area of semiconductor optoelectronic device design and experimental characterization with particular emphasis on nonlinearities in laser diodes and semiconductor optical waveguides. He has authored or co-authored more than 980 contributions to archival journals, books, and technical conferences. With Prof. D. Kane he co-edited the research monograph Unlocking Dynamical Diversity. His current research interests include the dynamics of vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers, applications of nonlinear dynamics in semiconductor lasers, and the design of nano-spin semiconductor lasers.

He cofounded and acted as the Organizer and Program Committee Chair for the International Conference on Semiconductor and Integrated Optoelectronics, which held annually at Cardiff, Wales, U.K., from 1987 until 2012. He has been a Program Member for several OSA conferences and was a Co-organizer of a Rank Prize Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics in Lasers held at the Lake District, U.K., in August 2002. He chaired the Education and Training in Optics and Photonics conference held at the Technium OpTIC, Wales, 2009. He received a Royal Society Travel Grant to visit universities and laboratories in Japan in July 1988. From July to December 2010, he held a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship in the Ultrafast Photonics Group, Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Physics, and the Learned Society of Wales for which he also served as a Council Member (2012–2015).