Timothy Leighton
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Timothy Leighton at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
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| Born | Timothy Grant Leighton 16 October 1963 Blackburn, Lancashire |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Image intensifier studies of sonoluminescence, with application to the safe use of medical ultrasound (1988) |
| Known for | The Acoustic Bubble |
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Timothy Grant Leighton FInstP, FREngFRS (born 16 October 1963) is the Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics at the University of Southampton.
Leighton was educated at Heversham Grammar School, Cumbria and Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Double First class Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences with Honours in Physics and Theoretical Physics in 1985. He stayed on to work in the Cavendish Laboratory and was awarded a PhD in 1988 for Image intensifier studies of sonoluminescence with applications to medical ultrasonography.
Following his PhD, Leighton was awarded Senior and Advanced Research fellowships at Magdalene College, Cambridge and the EPSRC. Leighton joined the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton in 1992 as a Lecturer in Underwater Acoustics, and completed the monograph The Acoustic Bubble in the same year. He was awarded a Personal Chair at the age of 35 and has authored over 400 publications.
He has founded and leads a research group, and two research organizations (NAMRIP and HEFUA, see below). He conducts extensive outreach activities, particularly for schoolchildren, features on radio and video, and serves on numerous national and international committees. An example lecture can be found at on the web.
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