Dr Jacob Mackenzie

Dr Mackenzie is engaged in complementary skills training of the Faculty of Engineering postgraduate students through its presentation and technical writing workshops.

Jacob leads two modules in the Optoelectronics Research Centres Optical Engineering MSc programme, namely, OPTO6018 - Lasers and OPTO6023 - Photonics Laboratory and Study Skills. Additionally, he is involved in the Photonics II module (ELEC3217), aiming to excite our third-year engineering students on the fundamentals and applications of laser sources.

Dr Jacob Mackenzie was employed in the electro-optics industry before starting his PhD in novel solid-state laser architectures and radiance scaling techniques. Since 2014 he’s been Associate Professor in the ORC and from 2004 to 2009 was a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow. His research focus is in new laser operating regimes that target a broad range of applications in materials processing, space-borne LIDAR, and silicon photonics. Over the past decade, he has been in many of the premiere solid-state lasers conference committees: CLEO Europe and Advanced Solid State Lasers, Photonics West-LASE, and as program co-chair of SPIE Photonics Europe’s (2014-2018) - Laser Sources and Applications and Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications (2020), and Technical committee chair/Program chair for Europhoton (2022/2024), including a current post in EOSAM - Optical Materials. He is a senior member of the OSA and since 2021, Editor in Chief of the Springer Nature journal Applied Physics B: Laser and Optics.