Dr. Owen Guy is a RCUK fellow in nano-medicine at Swansea University's College of Engineering, working in the field of advanced materials for microelectronics and nanotechnology. He has a multidisciplinary background – having gained a 1st class BSc in Chemistry, for which he was awarded the Ayling prize for the highest degree in Chemistry, and also a PhD in Chemistry at Swansea, before moving to the Materials, and subsequently Electronics departments, for postdoctoral appointments.

He has worked on the €4m EU Framework V project "ESCAPEE" investigating 'state of the art' Silicon Carbide diodes and MOSFET devices and is the project manager of the "INTRINSIC" silicon carbide project on Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) technology. This is a £1.1m three-year technology programme industrial collaboration project, involving: Swansea University, Warwick University, Semelab plc, IQE plc., Surface Technology Systems (STS), Pure Wafer and ESEMI, funded by the Department of Trade and Industry.

He is also the principal investigator on a diamond electronics project at Swansea, in collaboration with the industrial diamond company Element Six.

His expertise lies in chemistry and physics of semiconductor materials, fabrication of devices and chemistry at surfaces and interfaces.

His other research interests include:

• Organic semiconductors and their application in nano-electronic devices
• Bio-medical engineering and nanomedicine
• Photochemistry and molecular modelling
• Device simulation
• Carbon nanotubes in electonic applications 
• Novel thermal management techniques for microelectronics