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14 Facts About Donal Bradley

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Donal Bradley was the founding director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and served as vice-provost for research at the college.

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Donal Bradley was a pupil and latterly Head Boy at the Jesuit Wimbledon College in the London Borough of Merton.

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Donal Bradley studied as an undergraduate student at Imperial College London between 1980 and 1983 and obtained a first class honours degree and Associateship of the Royal College of Science.

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Donal Bradley was awarded the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Silver Medal and fellowship 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.

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Donal Bradley was the corresponding author for the subsequent 1990 Nature paper reporting the discovery of conjugated polymer electroluminescence.

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Donal Bradley is an Institute for Scientific Information highly cited author in both Materials Science and Physics with 563 papers published to date.

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Donal Bradley joined the University of Oxford in 2015 as Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Professor of Physics and Engineering Science.

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Donal Bradley was one of the 21 members of Oxford congress who stood to oppose the debate on the university's response to a changes proposed to the Universities Superannuation Scheme in March 2018.

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On 7 April 2019 Donal Bradley joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as the Vice President for Research.

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Donal Bradley was the recipient of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Silver Medal in 1983 as an outstanding graduate of the Royal College of Science.

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Donal Bradley was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1983, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2005 and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2013.

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Donal Bradley delivered the first Nanjing Tech Global Vision Lecture on "Molecular Control for Plastic Electronics and Photonics" in July 2013.

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Donal Bradley is ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the top 100 materials scientists in the world on the basis of the impact of his journal papers published between 2000 and 2010.

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Donal Bradley's father was the noted professor and laser physicist Daniel Joseph Donal Bradley.