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Professor Bill O’Neill (2015), UK

Last change:IAPLE / 2015-08-26

Professor of Laser Engineering 
Director of the Centre of Industrial Photonics
Director of EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Ultra Precision Engineering
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)
Department of Engineering
Cambridge University
Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK
Tel: +44 1223 748272
Email: wo207@cam.ac.uk
http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/wo207/
          Professor Bill O’Neill obtained a B.Sc in Applied Physics from the University of Essex in 1985 and an M.Sc in Laser Physics in 1986. On moving to the John Percy Group, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, he studied the interaction phenomena of dual-wavelength laser materials processing and obtained a PhD in 1990. He won a Royal Society BOC Research Fellowship, 1990-1994, in order to study the gas dynamics of laser cutting and examined rate-limiting affects on the iron-oxygen combustion reactions. This resulted in a number of international patents for new methods of cutting thick section steels with low power lasers, laser machining techniques and optical system design.
         He was appointed to Lectureship in the Department of Industrial Studies, University of Liverpool in 1995 where he continued his research on laser matter interactions for laser based additive manufacturing technologies including direct laser melting of metals. In 1998 he was appointed to a 5 year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship with a view to carrying out research in the field of laser based micro engineering.
Having completed his Advanced Research Fellowship and the creation of an EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, he moved his teaching and research activities to the Cambridge University Engineering Department.  Bill is currently Professor of Laser Engineering at Cambridge, and continues to research and develop laser-matter interactions, optical engineering, laser based manufacturing technologies, and micro/nano fabrication techniques. He is a Fellow of the Laser Institute of America, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Engineering Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
         Bill is currently a Professor of Laser Engineering within the Cambridge University Engineering Department and Director of the Centre of Industrial Photonics. He has written over 170 research publications and scientific papers on the subject of laser-matter interactions, optical engineering, laser based manufacturing technologies, and micro/nano fabrication techniques. He is a member of the international advisory panel of the National Laser Centre of South Africa, a member of Board of Director of the Laser Institute of America, and advises industry on a number of laser-based manufacturing. His research interests include:
Flexible and reconfigurable production technologies.
Laser beam monitoring and control
Ultrafast laser matter interactions
Dynamics of micro and macro laser cutting
Rapid manufacturing technologies
Ultrahigh velocity particulate impacts
Nanoscale fabrication technologies
Engineering systems for synthetic biological applications
Micro engineered medical therapeutics