Mark Welland
Mark Welland | |
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| Born | 18 October 1955 |
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| Spouse | Esme Lynora Otun |
| Children | Four |
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| Thesis | A study of grain boundaries in copper and copper-bismuth alloy (1984) |
| 39th Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge | |
| In office 1 October 2016 – 1 October 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Dame Jean Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Benger |
| Website | eng |
Sir Mark Edward Welland, FRS, FREng (born 18 October 1955) is a British physicist who is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and head of the Nanoscience Centre. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, since 1986 and started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunnelling microscopes. He served as the Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and from 2016 to 2023.