Dr Robert Henderson
"CMOS Single Photon Image Sensors for Microscopy"
Biography:
Robert Henderson is a reader in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Glasgow. From 1991, he was a research engineer at the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics, Neuchatel, Switzerland working on low power sigma-delta ADC and DACs for portable electronic systems. In 1996, he was appointed senior VLSI engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, Edinburgh, UK where he worked on the world’s first single chip video camera and was project leader for numerous other CMOS image sensors. From 2000, as principal VLSI engineer in STMicroelectronics Imaging Division he developed very high volume, low noise image sensors for mobile phone applications. He joined Edinburgh University in 2005, where he developed the first SPAD detectors in nanometer CMOS technology. He led SPAD sensor design activities in the €1.85M FP6 project MEGAFRAME and the €3.9M FP7 project SPADNET. The success of these projects has led to a £500k industrial research collaboration with STMicroelectronics on SPAD devices for time-of-flight ranging, resulting in the first commercial product announcements in 2013. A £11.5M EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Centre (EP/K03197X/1) held jointly with Heriot-Watt and Bath Universities is set to explore the use of SPAD detectors for in-vivo optical molecular sensing and diagnosis. He has recently been awarded a prestigious €2.3M ERC advanced fellowship (TOTALPHOTON) to develop high resolution SPAD cameras for superresolution microscopy. He is the author of over 103 papers and holds 19 patents.