Donal Bradley

Donal Donat Conor Bradley, CBE, FRS, FInstP, FIET, FRSA is the Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences at the University of Oxford. He is also a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. From 2006 to 2015, he was the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and served as Vice-Provost for Research at the college.

Bradley is known for his contributions to the development of molecular electronic materials and devices. Plastic or Printed electronics, as this technology is widely known, embodies a paradigm shift towards low temperature, solution-based device fabrication with applications in energy efficient displays and lighting, photovoltaic energy generation, medical diagnostics and longer term potential for optical communications.

Bradley was a pupil and latterly Head Boy at the Jesuit Wimbledon College in the London Borough of Merton. He studied as an undergraduate student (BSc Physics) at Imperial College London between 1980 and 1983 and obtained a first class honours degree and Associateship of the Royal College of Science. He was awarded the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Silver Medal and fellowship (FRSA) as an outstanding graduate of the Royal College of Science and served in his second year as the Royal College of Science Union Departmental Representative for Physics. His postgraduate research was undertaken in the Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and he received a PhD in 1987 for his thesis “Spectroscopic investigations of the processible conjugated polymers poly(p-phenylene vinylene) and poly(4,4'-diphenylenediphenylvinylene)”.

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