University of Nottingham
Professor Mark Johnson
- Telephone: +44 (0)115 846 8685
- Email: mark.johnson@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor C Mark Johnson received the BA degree in engineering and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1986 and 1991 respectively.
From 1990 to 1992 he was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and in 1992 he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, UK, where his research included the design, analysis and characterisation of power semiconductor devices, resonant power conversion and instrumentation.
From 1998 to 2001 he managed the UK national programme on Silicon Carbide electronics and in 2000 he became Reader of Power Electronics at the University of Newcastle. In 2003, Professor Johnson was appointed as Rolls-Royce/RAEng Research Professor of Power Electronic Systems at the University of Sheffield and in 2006 he was appointed to a personal chair at the University of Nottingham, where he leads research into power semiconductor devices, power device packaging, reliability, and thermal management, power module technologies and power electronic applications.
In 2002, Prof Johnson was awarded an EPSRC Platform grant (renewed 2006) “Technologies for SiC Electronics and Sensors in Extreme Environments”, funding from which was used to initiate work on reliability and health management. Prof. Johnson is a co-investigator and member of the Executive Committee for the Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Research Centre (IeMRC) (GR/T07459, EP/H03014X) and was project manager for the IeMRC Flagship Project in Power Electronics, which investigated reliability and technology issues for the manufacture of the next generation of power electronic modules. He is work package leader for the ERDF project “Accelerating a Low-Carbon Economy” which is investigating community-focused energy management solutions for future electricity networks and is an investigator on the EPSRC SUPERGEN HubNet (EP/I013636/1) and the EPSRC Networks Grand Challenge “Top and Tail” (EP/I031707/1) projects. He is PI for the EPSRC funded Score project (EP/E044697/1) which is investigating a low-cost, electricity generating stove for rural communities in developing countries.
