Prof. Jon Cooper

Position
Professor of Bioelectronics and Bioengineering
Active in the Bioelectronics research area

Contact information
office: Rankine Building, 726
tel:  +44 (0)141-330 4931
fax: +44 (0)141-330 4907
email: J.Cooper@elec.gla.ac.uk

Biography
Professor Jon Cooper holds the Wolfson Chair in Bioengineering in the Department of Electronics at the University of Glasgow. He has developed a full range of technologies associated with Lab-on-a-Chip (including areas as diverse as bionanotechnology, microfluidics, surface analysis, biochip fabrication and development, instrumentation, modelling and cell based assays). His group has a critical mass of researchers in a broad range of technologies, working in micro- and nanofabrication, soft & hard lithography, microscopy, optics and photonics, cell culture, immobilisation, biosensor technology, analytical biotechnology and modelling. The focus of his work is in demonstrating the analytical advantages of studying biology at the micro- and nanoscale. He has been closely involved in the commercialisation of a number of these technologies associated with this field, including for example Lab-on-a-Pill technologies and new tools for drug discovery. In addition he currently has a number of funded collaborations with industry, including GSK, Unilever, LGC and NPL.

Professor Cooper is a principal applicant on the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) in Bionanotechnology (with the University of Oxford and NIMR, Mill Hill) and the IRC in Proteomics Technologies (with the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee). He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. in Nanobioscience and IEE Proc. in Nano-Biotechnology, and is currently an editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and on the International Advisory board of Lab-on-a-Chip Journal. He also sits on the advisory boards for the Science Foundation of Ireland, the National Physics Laboratory, and is a member of the IET Research and Innovation Policy Group and the UK Focus Executive Committee for Biomedical Engineering. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Professor Cooper’s work is recognised by invited lectures at leading conferences including the Gordon Research Conferences in Analytical Chemistry (2005) and The Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics (2005), Nano2005 and Nano 2006 and the World Congress of Lab-on-a-Chip (2007). He has published ca. 140 papers in the field.

Evidence of Esteem
Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2004).
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2003).
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineering (2003).
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2001).
International Advisory Board, RSC Lab-on-a-Chip (2007 to date).
IET Research and Innovation Policy Group, Reporting on Research in Universities (2004 to date).
Research Assessment Exercise, Panel Member (Panel G, UoA 24).
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Committee of the Institute of Materials (2000 to date).
Membership Panel, Royal Academy of Engineering (2005 to date).
National Physics Laboratory, Advisory Board (2006 to date).
Science Foundation for Ireland, Advisory Board (2007-to date).
Co-Founder: Wireless Bio-Devices (spin out based on Lab-on-a-Pill Technology).
Synthetic Biology Working Panel (2007-2008).
UK Focus for Biomedical Engineering, Member of Executive Committee (2007 to date).
National Panel of Advisors for the Commonwealth Scholarships (2007 to date).

A summary of Professor Cooper's research interests can be found here.