Dr Jackson has been a tutor of under-graduate, post-graduate and research students at Bolton for almost twenty years having previously worked within the instrumentation and control division of ICI. His academic fields span instrumentation, control, electrical and electronic systems, signal processing and mathematical physics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests have included blood flow analysis, tomographic imaging of two-component flow in pipes and the onset of ignition within the chamber of a petrol engine.

His consultancy work includes tomographic imaging of wind-tunnel data for British Aerospace and the development of a new inductance sensor for on-line, non-contact thickness measurement of conducting films.

He has published extensively and regularly referees books, papers and research proposals for EPSRC and other funding bodies. He has contributed to a book on the industrial applications of tomography and his most recent book, Novel Sensors and Sensing (listed below), describes recent advances in the development of sensors and sensor signal processing methods.

Clive Robinson's career has focused on ASICs, quality systems and microsystems. After graduating he joined the Space Systems Group in Ferranti where he became responsible for the design reliability of satellite navigation systems. Clive then moved to a design consultancy in Edinburgh where he worked with a range of technologies, including full custom ASICs and sensors. As well as design he was responsible for subcontracted fabrication, assembly and test. In 1991 Clive set up a consultancy to help companies benefit from microelectronics. A few years later the UK Government adopted many of the ideas into the Microelectronics in Business programme and appointed Clive as a Business Advisor covering Scotland and Northern Ireland. He has been involved in several projects using microsystems and multichip modules. Clive is the author of several papers on both the technical and commercial aspects of microelectronics. He has worked on standards bodies trying to harmonise the ASIC design process and is on the EC's list of experts for work in technology transfer involving ASICs. He is a founder member of the UK's Semiconductor Business Association and has established benchmarking guidelines for the members.