Marcus Weldon
| Marcus Weldon | |
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| Born |
July 25, 1968 United Kingdom |
| Residence | Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physical Chemistry, Computer Science |
| Institutions | Bell Labs |
| Alma mater |
King's College London Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Cynthia Friend |
| Notable awards | New Jersey Medal for Science and Technology |
Marcus Weldon (born 25 July 1968) is the 13th President of Bell Labs. He also serves as the Corporate Chief Technology Officer of Nokia.
Weldon won a scholarship (bursary) to the Bedford Modern School, which he attended until the age of 18, excelling in mathematics and the sciences before enrolling at King's College London to study Chemistry and Computer Science. He graduated with First Class honours in 1990, and was accepted to the Ph.D. program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied Physical Chemistry and performed research into the growth of diamond films on metallic surfaces with Cynthia Friend. He was awarded the Nottingham Prize for his thesis work.
In 1995, he accepted a post doctoral position at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, working in the group of Yves Chabal, in the Physical Sciences research laboratory, headed by Horst Stormer. He studied the surface oxidation of silicon and the science of wafer bonding and splitting by hydrogen implantation, winning multiple awards for his work. He was offered a position as a Member of Technical Staff in the Materials Research laboratory run by Alastair Glass, working for Mark Cardillo to study the microscopic physics and chemistry of sol-gel.
After the spin-out of Lucent Technologies from AT&T, and the sale of the optical fiber business to Commscope, he changed focus to investigate early Fiber To The Home technologies and architectures. This led to his subsequent appointment as Chief Technology Officer of the Broadband Solutions business unit of Lucent Technologies in 2004, and with one area of focus being broadband economics and quality of service. After the merger between Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies in 2006, he became the CTO of the Broadband Access business unit of the combined entity, before becoming the Corporate CTO for Alcatel-Lucent in 2009. He assumed the role of CTO for Nokia following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016.
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