Will Stewart

Professor Will Stewart is Vice President of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET).

Will Stewart is an IET Trustee and Chair of the Communication Policy Panel and appears regularly in the media on communications issues. Previously the Chief Scientist at Marconi with wide interests in technologies from communications to bio sensing, he was educated at Imperial College (Physics). His personal interests have been in optical fibre communications and optoelectronics. Recent interests include microstructured photonic materials (photonic crystals), optical slow-wave structures, nanomechanical systems and the application of various optical, semiconductor and acoustic technologies to medicine, particle physics and industrial processes.

He is author on some 64 conference and journal papers, including many invited papers, and on 48 patents. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for the journal 'Science'.