Richard Penty is the Head of the School of Technology and Professor of Photonics at the University of Cambridge.
16 Facts About Richard Penty
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Richard Penty is the oldest of three sons of two Uttoxeter medical practitioners, Peter and Patricia Janet Penty.
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Richard Penty was educated at Repton School, an independent school in Repton, Derbyshire.
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Richard Penty studied engineering and electrical science at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986.
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Richard Penty remained at Cambridge to undertake postgraduate study in engineering, specialising in nonlinear optical fibre devices.
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Richard Penty completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1990.
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Richard Penty was promoted to Reader and then Professor of Photonics.
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Richard Penty was elected a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 2002.
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Richard Penty served as Deputy Vice-Master of the college in 2008 and Vice-Master from 2011 to 2012.
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Richard Penty was Acting Master from 2012 to 2013, before his election as the 27th Master of Sidney Sussex College in 2013, stepping down in 2023.
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Richard Penty has worked for many years on short reach photonic networks for in-building links.
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Richard Penty is involved in research projects studying the energy efficiency of photonic networks and how these can be improved, in co-operation with higher layers in the network stack, to provide better energy efficiency for the internet.
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Richard Penty was involved in the realisation of a 16x16 photonic switch which had the time had the largest number of active components integrated together on a single chip.
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Richard Penty is involved in European research efforts to develop a generic foundry for III-V PICs and is part of the Advisory Board for the Jeppix activity which seeks to broker the developing capability to users.
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Richard Penty has carried out research on broad area RFID systems, where the detection range of passive RFID tags has been greatly improved.
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In 2012, Richard Penty was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.