Mark Welland

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Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He served as the Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 2016 to 2023.[10]

Early life and education

Welland was born on 18 October 1955.[11] He completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in physics from the University of Leeds in 1979 and Master of Science[12] and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in physics from the University of Bristol in 1984 for research on grain boundaries.[13][14]

Career

Welland moved to Cambridge in 1987 and set up the first tunnelling microscopy group in the UK in collaboration with John Pethica. Currently at the Nanoscience Centre at the University of Cambridge researches into a number of aspects of nanotechnology ranging from sensors for medical applications to understanding and controlling the properties of nanoscale structures and devices.

In a recent award by the UK Research Councils, Welland has been made Director of an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in nanotechnology that, along with a purpose-built facility, represents an investment of $28 million for nanotechnology research at Cambridge. Until 2008, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Physics journal Nanotechnology, established in 1990, and, along with many other contributions at an international level, co-chairs the recently established Co-operative Research Initiative in Nanotechnology (CORINT) between the UK and Japan with Hiroyuki Sakaki of the University of Tokyo. He is also a Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute.

Welland is also on the advisory board of Seraphima Ventures – a venture capital firm focusing mainly on nanotechnology startup companies.

In April 2008 he was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Ministry of Defence.[15]

Welland's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[16]

In September 2016 he was appointed Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge,[17] where he served until October 2023.

Personal life

Welland is married to Esme Lynora Otun. Together they have four children: two sons and two daughters.[11]

Awards and honours

Welland was knighted in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours.[18][19] In 2002, his contributions to nanotechnology research were recognised through his election to Fellowships of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.[20] His nomination for the Royal Society reads:Page Template:Blockquote/styles.css has no content.

Mark Welland is a world leader in nanotechnology and scanned probe microscopy. His achievements combine the development of new experimental tools for nanoscale characterisation with the modelling of nano-scale properties, and an interdisciplinary approach to practical applications. His contributions include determining the mechanical properties of single molecules, and of molecular layers and polymer films at the nanometre scale; local electronic properties of semiconductors, insulators and metallic nanowires; optical property determination with atomic resolution; size and shape effects in sub-micron magnetic structures; sensors for chemical and biochemical recognition, and synthesis of new materials by direct nano-fabrication. His seminal contributions are internationally recognised, he leads an IRC, and he continues to be a fertile originator of new nano-scale science and technology.[21]

In 2014, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Bristol.

Welland was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science (DSc) by the University of Bath in 2024.[22]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Porter, A. E.; Gass, M.; Muller, K.; Skepper, J. N.; Midgley, P. A.; Welland, M. (2007). "Direct imaging of single-walled carbon nanotubes in cells". Nature Nanotechnology. 2 (11): 713–7. Bibcode:2007NatNa...2..713P. doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.347. PMID 18654411.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knowles, T. P.; Fitzpatrick, A. W.; Meehan, S.; Mott, H. R.; Vendruscolo, M.; Dobson, C. M.; Welland, M. E. (2007). "Role of Intermolecular Forces in Defining Material Properties of Protein Nanofibrils". Science. 318 (5858): 1900–3. Bibcode:2007Sci...318.1900K. doi:10.1126/science.1150057. PMID 18096801. S2CID 32892463.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, J. F.; Knowles, T. P. J.; Dobson, C. M.; MacPhee, C. E.; Welland, M. E. (2006). "Characterization of the nanoscale properties of individual amyloid fibrils". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (43): 15806–11. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10315806S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604035103. PMC 1635084. PMID 17038504.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shu, W.; Liu, D.; Watari, M.; Riener, C. K.; Strunz, T.; Welland, M. E.; Balasubramanian, S.; McKendry, R. A. (2005). "DNA Molecular Motor Driven Micromechanical Cantilever Arrays". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127 (48): 17054–60. doi:10.1021/ja0554514. PMID 16316252.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knowles, T. P.; Waudby, C. A.; Devlin, G. L.; Cohen, S. I.; Aguzzi, A; Vendruscolo, M; Terentjev, E. M.; Welland, M. E.; Dobson, C. M. (2009). "An analytical solution to the kinetics of breakable filament assembly". Science. 326 (5959): 1533–7. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1533K. doi:10.1126/science.1178250. PMID 20007899. S2CID 6267152.
  6. ^ Mark Welland's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cowburn, R. P.; Koltsov, D. K.; Adeyeye, A. O.; Welland, M. E. (1999). "Single-Domain Circular Nanomagnets". Physical Review Letters. 83 (5): 1042. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.1042C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1042.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cowburn, R. P. (2000). "Room Temperature Magnetic Quantum Cellular Automata". Science. 287 (5457): 1466–1468. Bibcode:2000Sci...287.1466C. doi:10.1126/science.287.5457.1466. PMID 10688790.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barnes, J. R.; Stephenson, R. J.; Welland, M. E.; Gerber, C.; Gimzewski, J. K. (1994). "Photothermal spectroscopy with femtojoule sensitivity using a micromechanical device". Nature. 372 (6501): 79. Bibcode:1994Natur.372...79B. doi:10.1038/372079a0. S2CID 4326428.
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  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Welland, Mark Edward (1979). An investigation into the properties of migrating grain boundaries using Micro-Mossel X-ray diffraction (MSc thesis). University of Bristol.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Welland, Mark Edward (1984). A study of grain boundaries in copper and copper-bismuth alloy (PhD thesis). University of Bristol.
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  15. ^ New Chief Scientific Adviser at the MOD, MoD Press Release, 3 April 2008.
  16. ^ UK Government grants awarded to Mark Welland, via Research Councils UK
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  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."List of Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."EC/2002/41: Welland, Mark Edward". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professor Sir Mark Welland". www.bath.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2025.

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