A former Director of Research in the Department, Professor Malcolm Macleod has worked in digital signal processing, image processing and mathematical analysis for over 30 years.

Malcolm began his career with Cambridge Consultants before joining the Department in 1988. He held a number of college and university appointments here prior to his move to the British multinational defence technology company QinetiQ where he is now Senior Fellow and Chief Scientist.

At QinetiQ, Malcolm’s techniques have been applied to Electronic Support Measures (ESM), radar, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), communications, test and specialist sensor systems. His contributions to communications signal processing and ESM include novel modulation methods, a technique for direction-finding using a single receiver, and an ultra-high bandwidth RF channeliser. Malcolm’s work on signal detection and estimation has also been applied in commercial radio, vibration control and navigation systems – including a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.

Cambridge technology entrepreneur, Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CleanTech business Breathing Buildings, is an Engineering Teaching Fellow and delivers lectures for the Department on various courses including the Masters in Construction Excellence and 4D13.

Shaun’s expertise is in geothermal reservoir engineering. Thanks to his pioneering research, waste water pipelines now supply the Geysers reservoir in California and reinjection is standard practice worldwide. Shaun is also distinguished in natural ventilation. Following his patent on mixing ventilation at the University of Cambridge, he founded Breathing Buildings as a spin-out company in 2006.