Professor Daping Chu

Daping Chu is the founding Nanjing Chair of Technology and Innovation at University of Cambridge and founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors (CPDS).  He is also the Director of Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) and founding Academic Director of Cambridge University - Nanjing Centre (CUNJC).

Daping is also a Director of Studies in Engineering at Selwyn College, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Physicist and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He holds professorships from a number of universities in China and the position of Honorary Dean of School of International Innovation at Shandong University. He was a member of staff in the Theoretical Physics Group of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing from 1986 to 1991. Subsequently he moved to England, working as a Research Fellow at Warwick University until 1998, and completed his Doctorate in Physics in 1994. Between 1994 and 1995, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Antwerp in collaboration with IMEC at Louven. He joined the Department of Engineering at University of Cambridge in 1998 and the Cambridge Research Laboratory of Epson in 1999, where he was the Executive Researcher. 

His research activity has been in the areas of both theoretical and experimental condensed matter physics, semiconductor devices and materials, nanostructures and properties, ferroelectrics non-volatile memory devices, organic electronics and inkjet fabrication process.