Christopher Snowden

Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden Kt FRS FREngFIET FIEEE FCGI (born 5 March 1956 in Kingston upon Hull) is vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton in Southampton, United Kingdom. He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015.

Snowden studied electronic and electrical engineering at the University of Leeds, gaining a BSc in 1977, an MSc and a PhD in 1982. His PhD involved microwave oscillators for radar applications and semiconductor device modelling. He conducted his PhD research at Racal-MESL Ltd near Edinburgh in Scotland as well as at the University of Leeds.

Snowden was an applications engineer for Mullard Applications Laboratory from 1977-78. He lectured at the Department of Electronics in the University of York from 1982-83. From 1983-2005 he was a member of staff at the University of Leeds, his former alma mater, working in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, becoming professor of microwave engineering in 1992 until 2005. He was head of the school from 1995–98 and for a while was warden of Bodington Hall. Whilst at Leeds he was a founder of the Institute of Microwave and Photonics. He supervised 50 successful PhD students. He has also worked at M/A-COM in the US from 1989-91 as senior staff scientist in the Corporate Research and Development Centre, based just outside Boston.

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