Biography:
Prof. Jose’s research interests are in the areas of photonic glasses,
femtosecond pulsed laser deposition and plasma implantation, planar wave
guide devices on glass, silicon and polymer platforms, and photonic
biosensors. The ultrafast laser plasma doping (ULPD) process in glass
that he invented has been the core technology behind novel
optoelectronic applications that he is developing. He is leading a large
EPSRC-UK functional materials manufacturing research project for
developing ULPD for application in advanced integrated photonics for
optical data communication (www.seamatics.org). Glasses functionalised
using ULPD are attractive for non-invasive biosensing, integrated
photonics, anti-counterfeiting/printing in glass bottles
(www.ultramatis.com) and toughening of glass for displays. A number of
researchers and industrial partners are involved in these research and
development activities of his group.
Prof. Jose received his MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from University
of Calicut, India and Mahatma Gandhi University, India respectively. He
was a research fellow at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy during
2001-2002. In 2003 he joined the Department of Physics, Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati and was a Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor
there until 2007. In 2007, he joined School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, UK as Senior Research Fellow and
Project Manager, and since March 2013 he is the Professor and Chair in
Functional Materials there. |