Research Fellow






 Dr. Mike Taverne
 ELC101
 mike.taverne@northumbria.ac.uk
 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. January 2017: “Modelling and fabrication of nanophotonics devices”: Optimized cavities in 3D photonic crystals and demonstrated record low mode volumes.
  • Master’s degree in subatomic physics and astroparticles, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, 2008 (light-matter interactions, detection systems, elementary particles and fields, etc).
  • Engineering degree, Télécom Physique Strasbourg (formerly known as Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg/National School of Higher Education in Physics of Strasbourg), Strasbourg, France, 2007 (included courses on embedded systems and electronic CAD using VHDL)

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCES

  • Research Fellow, Dept. of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, 01/09/2021 – present
  • Honorary Research Associate, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, 01/09/2021 – present
  • Research Associate, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, 01/01/2016 – 31/08/2021
  • Software engineer (Development of mesh generation software for CFD applications, Engineering consultancy), enGits GmbH, Germany, 2009 to 2010

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Practical sessions on Logisim for the “Digital Electronics and Communications” module, University of Northumbria, October - December 2024
  • Seminars for the “Instrumentation Systems” section of the “Instrumentation and Control of Dynamical Systems” module, University of Northumbria, February 2022
  • Lectures and practical sessions for the “Simulation: Photonic crystals and waveguides” section of the “Quantum Devices” module, University of Northumbria, September - December 2021
  • Quantum Device Engineering Guest Lecture on Photonic crystals, University of Bristol, March 2020
  • Lumerical workshop in the Advanced Optoelectronic Devices unit of the Optical Communications and Signal Processing MSc, University of Bristol, March 2019
  • Cross disciplinary teaching class: “Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Wavelength-scale Structures”, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, July 2-6, 2018
  • Classical algorithms workshop of the “Quantum in the summer” summer school, University of Bristol, July-August 2018 and 2019

AWARDS & HONOURS

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) 2024, Higher Education Academy, UK.
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) 2021, Higher Education Academy, UK.
  • PhD studentship was funded through EPSRC.
  • Baccalauréat S (scientific section) with honours (mention “très bien”), Lycée Alexandre Dumas, Port-au-Prince, Haïti, 2001.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests lie primarily in the field of Quantum Optics, Nanophotonics, Nanomanufacturing techniques and computational photonics. I am an expert in nanofabrication (3D additive nanomanufacturing and focused ion beam etching), modelling (Finite-Difference Time-Domain, and plane-wave expansion methods) and characterisation (in-house built Fourier imaging spectroscopy). My area right now has focused on artificially structured electromagnetic materials for efficient control of light-matter interactions and the development of advanced optoelectronic devices for practical applications (e.g., sensing, light trapping, and solar energy harvesting, and quantum technology, etc.).