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Director, EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge
Chris Rider is the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics, a partnership between 4 universities, and he sits within the Electrical Engineering Division of the University of Cambridge.
Before taking up this position he was a Department Head at Kodak European Research, Cambridge, leading a team of scientists working on various projects to provide technology for Kodak's Displays and Graphic Communications businesses.
Prior to that Chris set up and led a research team whose focus was to develop technologies to enable the manufacture of optoelectronic structures of all kinds on plastic substrates. Projects included cholesteric LC and electrowetting reflective display technologies, inorganic electroluminescent displays, zinc oxide thin film transistors, flexible photovoltaics, electronically tunable photonic crystals and additive self-aligning processes for patterning functional materials. Chris has also led commercialisation projects for Kodak and has firsthand experience of the processes needed to take technology from its initial conception through to product launch.