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Professor Florin Udrea elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

Professor Florin Udrea elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

Professor Florin Udrea

Congratulations to Professor Florin Udrea of the Department of Engineering on being elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 

The commitment and energy of our Fellows is the lifeblood of our Academy. Our new Fellows join us as the country’s most innovative and creative minds from both academia and industry. We look forward to working with them, learning from their successes and drawing on their considerable expertise as we continue our work to promote engineering at the heart of society.

Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE FREng FRS, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Florin has done pioneering and truly innovative research, which has been translated into direct engineering application in the areas of electronic devices for electrical power/energy control and gas sensing.  

He has commercialised his research as well as collaborating with leading industrial companies internationally to develop products based on his research. He is both an academic and an incredibly successful entrepreneur, he leads the High Voltage Microelectronics group at the Department of Engineering whilst being the founder of two of the University's most successful start-ups: Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd (Camsemi) and Cambridge CMOS Sensors Ltd (CMOSS). Camsemi is a pioneer in the world of semiconductors, developing and patenting more energy efficient chips. To date they are generating multi-million pound revenue and have 70 employees in offices in the UK, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and the US.

Florin is also co-founder and CEO of CMOSS, a company developing revolutionary technology for environmental monitoring. Its miniature gas sensors for CO2 and methane detection are set to replace the expensive, bulky equipment the industry currently uses. At present the company has 15 world-wide customers and a potential growth forecast of £10 million a year.

He holds 70 patents and was recognised through the award of the RAEng Silver Medal in 2012. He is also a world-leading academic with more than 350 publications. He has just taken up the position of global editor for power semiconductor devices of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, the preeminent international journal in electronic devices.

The newly elected Fellows represent the cream of the UK engineering profession, including technologists from world-leading engineering companies and distinguished academics from renowned research institutions.

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