doctoral_advisor thesis_year thesis_title nationality ethnicity fields workplaces birth_date thesis_url residence image article_title name alma_mater
francis john lidgey 1986 universal current-mode analogue amplifiers british greek electronic engineering/medical technology imperial college london 05 july 1961 http://ethos.bl.uk/orderdetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372854 london epo14 toumazou-0429 . jpg chris toumazou
 professor christofer toumazou oxford brookes university
chris toumazou

christofer `` chris '' toumazou , frs , freng , fmedsci , fiet , fieee , fcgi , frsm , ceng -lrb- , born 5 july 1961 -rrb- is a british cypriot electronic engineer .
in 2013 he became london 's first regius professor of engineering conferred to imperial college during the queen 's diamond jubilee .
toumazou is also chief scientist of the institute of biomedical engineering and professor of circuit design at imperial college london ; founder of toumaz holdings ltd , chairman and founder of dna electronics ltd. and chief scientific advisor to geneu .
he has been involved in developing new technologies , mainly in medical field , creating a research institute and a number of commercial ventures to commercialize his research .
in particular toumazou invented and licensed portable and rapid semiconductor genome sequencing which has now become a multibillion dollar industry .
one of his motivators was the diagnosis of his 13-year-old son with end stage kidney failure through a rare genetic mutation .
he has published over 750 research papers and holds 50 patents in the field of semiconductors and healthcare .
toumazou 's career began with the invention and development of entirely novel concept of current-mode analogue circuitry for ultra-low-power electronic devices .
he has worked on applying silicon chip technology to biomedical and life-science applications , most recently to dna analysis .
amongst his key inventions was that of semiconductor based dna sequencing .
for his inventions on semiconductor based genetic testing he won the gabor medal of the royal society -lrb- 2013 -rrb- and european inventor award -lrb- 2014 -rrb- .
he is the first british winner of the prize in this contest since 2008 .
