Dr Mark Leadbeater

Dr Mark Leadbeater is the Strategic Development Manager for the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics.

Previously Mark was the Programme Manager for the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics and was also Programme Manager of the Cambridge Innovation and Knowledge Centre since its inception in 2007. Before joining the University he was Manager of the Device Physics research group at Cambridge Display Technology Ltd, the leading developer of polymer light emitting diodes. Prior to that, Mark was a senior researcher at Toshiba’s Cambridge Research Laboratory, developing gallium arsenide based low-dimensional semiconductor devices. Mark has a PhD from the University of Nottingham and an MA from the University of Cambridge. He has co-authored over 70 scientific publications and 20 patents.