E. Pickwell-MacPherson studied natural sciences for her undergraduate degree at Cambridge University followed by an MSci in Physics where she specialized in semiconductor physics. She started her PhD with the Semiconductor Physics Group at Cambridge University and TeraView Ltd, a company specializing in terahertz imaging in 2002. Her PhD work focused on understanding contrast mechanisms in terahertz images of skin cancer.

Having completed her thesis in 2005, she worked for TeraView Ltd as a Medical Scientist until moving to Hong Kong in 2006. Prof MacPherson set up a terahertz laboratory at the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK during her post between 2006 and 2009 as an Assistant Professor. She spent 3 years at HKUST as a Visiting Assistant Professor (September 2009 -2012) and returned to the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK in Sept 2012. Prof MacPherson has represented Hong Kong on the International Organising Committee for the Infrared and Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Wave (IRMMW-THz) conference series since 2009 and she was the General Conference Chair of the 2015 IRMMW-THz conference held at CUHK. She joined the Physics department at Warwick University, UK in October 2017 and is the recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She was promoted to Professor in 2021. Due to her longstanding contributions to the IRMMW-THz community, she was awarded the 2024 Exceptional Service award.

Her research interests include developing THz devices and instrumentation to speed up THz imaging; in vivo THz imaging; and characterisation algorithm development. This publication list details the publications arising from the £8 M programmes grant, Terabotics, of which she is the PI. Her Web of Science Publons Profile is here. She is part of the Ultrafast Terahertz Photonics group at Warwick university.

Recent articles:

• April 2024 BBC Midland News Using terahertz waves to help with skin cancer treatment

 

• October 2022 Sky international news
  • article: Terahertz sensing for skin cancer detection

    

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• Oct 2020 CUHK features: Tuning into Terahertz
• July 2020 Physics Org: T-ray camera speed boosted a hundred times over

Accompanying cover art for "Exploiting Total Internal Reflection Geometry for Terahertz Devices and Enhanced Sample Characterization" in Advanced Optical Materials, Feb 2020.

Prof Emma MacPherson

Contact Details:

Office: P4.30
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Telephone: +44 (0)24 765 23981
Email: E dot MacPherson at warwick dot ac dot uk
Address: Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.

For more information, visit the page of the Emma's Terahertz Group