Prof. David Cardwell FREng
Professor of Superconducting Engineering
Deputy Head of Department (Graduate Studies)
BSc, Warwick University, 1983
PhD, Warwick University, 1987
MA, Cambridge University, 1995
Tel: +44 1223 330266
Fax: +44 1223
339263
Email:
dc135@cam.ac.uk
David Cardwell is Professor of Superconducting Engineering and Co-Director of the KACST-Cambridge Research Centre. He is also Deputy Head of Department with responsibility for Graduate Studies. Under Prof. Cardwell's leadership the Bulk Superconductor research group at Cambridge works on the processing and applications of bulk high temperature superconductors, which can be used to generate very high magnetic fields. He has authored over 330 technical papers and patents. Professor Cardwell has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1993. He is actively involved in the recruitment of overseas undergraduates for the sciences, and particularly from the Far East.
Professor Cardwell is also Chairman of the University of Cambridge Board of Graduate Studies, the Board oversees the study of the majority of graduate students at Cambridge.
Publications
You can see a list of Prof. Cardwell's publications in the Department Publication Database.
Distinctions
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- Fellow of the IET
National and International Offices
- Treasurer of the European Society for Applied Superconductivity.
- Member of the Editorial Board of International Materials Reviews
- Member of the Advisory Board of Superconductor Science and Technology
- International Advisory Board of the conference EUCAS'13
