Derek Abbott

Derek Abbott was born in South Kensington, London UK in 1960. In 1978, he began work at the GEC Hirst Research Centre, London, UK, and graduated from Loughborough University, UK, with a BSc (Hons) in Physics. He migrated to Australia in 1986, and worked at Austek Microsystems as an analog VLSI design engineer until 1987. He took up at the University of Adelaide, where he completed his PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, graduating in 1997. He was promoted to full Professor in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (USA) and also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK). His interests are in complex systems, mathematics, probability, photonics, renewable energy, and forensic genealogy.