Graham Reed

Graham Reed is the Director of The Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He is recognised as one of the founders of the field of Silicon Photonics, having established his Silicon Photonics Research Group in 1989. The Group is now approximately 55 people strong, have provided a series of world leading results since its inception, and currently hold two world records for data rates for silicon modulators/transmitters. The group has also been at the forefront of emerging applications of Silicon Photonics such as LiDAR, mid-IR Silicon Photonics, programmable photonics, and silicon photonics for space to name but a few. Reed is a regular invited and contributing author to major Silicon Photonics conferences around the world. He has served on numerous international conference committees, and has also chaired many others. He has authored more than 670 publications in the field of Silicon Photonics, including 185 invited/keynote/plenary talks. In 2013 he was the recipient of the IET Crompton Medal for Achievement in Energy, and in 2014 he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and in 2019 he was awarded an industry prize (PIC award) for his contribution to the Silicon Photonics field. In 2023 he was awarded the “Sir Frank Whittle Medal” by the Royal Academy of Engineering as well as the SPIE Gold Medal.