Professor Martin Richardson
Professor of Modern Holography
Research Groups:
Design and New Product Development
Photographic Studies and Creative Imaging
Subject Area: Modern Holography
Telephone: 0116 257 7671
Email: MRichardson@dmu.ac.uk
Websites:
www.martin-richardson.com
Design and New Product Development
Photographic Studies and Creative Imaging
Martin Richardson's Research Archive
Latest News: Holography Professor wins Saxby Award
Current and Recent Research
Professor Richardson has begun a research project valued at £1.6m for innovative holographic lighting units which could bring significant savings in both money and energy. The research investigates holographic optical elements (HOEs) illuminated by light-emitting diodes for lighting within buildings.
These ‘HOEs’ will produce a flat, uniform light source that can be swivelled or rotated for architectural and building lighting, and so potentially offer a revolutionary new form of low-cost, energy-efficient lighting.
This is real innovation that could bring vastly increased energy and space efficiency with significant improvements over existing lighting products; it’s cutting edge research. Because it is extremely efficient, the light it produces is energy-saving and the units will also cost far less to produce than traditional elements currently available in the lighting industry.
The research is being funded by a successful bid for government TSB funding; Technology Programme Collaborative Research and Development Project, submitted as part of the Autumn 2007 Competition.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University
MA (Hons) Photography, The Royal College of Art
PhD Holography, The Royal College of Art.
Externally Won Grants and Consultancy, 2001 – Present
2008: TSB Government Research funding – Nano Aliened Holographic Optics, (NAHO) Project
2004 – 2007: Two Knowledge Transfer Partnership Awards, (KTP)
2003: HSBC Bank PLC Business Venture Competition
2001: UK Government, Millennium Fellowship Award.
Awards, Honours and Commissions, 2001 – Present
2008: Lord Stafford Award
2007: ASTRIUM
2006: Leicester County Council
2005: EPSRC Research Council’s Business Plan Competition
2005: AMANN
2005: Keynote speaker Photonics West, SPIE, San Jose, California, USA
2005: Invited Chair Photonics West, SPIE, San Jose, California, USA
2004: Shearwater Foundation Achievements in Holographic Art Award, USA.
External Teaching and Examinations
2007 – Present: External examiner for Leeds Metropolitan University, Photography and Fine Art
2007 – Present: Visiting professor Kun Shun University, Taiwan.
Citations, Reviews and Interviews
I organise and run holography workshops, most notably in 2004, when I hosted five holographic workshops co-organised at the Cheltenham Science Festival by guest director Sir Robert Winston. These were partnered by the EPSRC and sponsored by NESTA, The Medical Research Council and The Arts Council of Great Britain.
An estimated fifteen million Britons watched as I made a hologram on live television in December 2000. During the first part of the programme, broadcast on 23rd September 2000, viewers saw examples of my work and were given an introduction to holography. During the second half, I made a hologram live in the studio. The resulting hologram was offered as a prize to the viewer who could say which country holography was invented in. The TV Company, Central Television, said the response was over 5,000 entries, the largest ever response to such a competition.
Memberships
Member of the International Society for Optical Engineers (SPIE)
Member of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
Member of the LSF, (Laser Safety Forum) – National Radiological Protection Board.
Curatorial Project
2008: Holography in the Modern Museum.
Featured Video
The Science and Art of Holograms, from De Montfort University’s Professorial Lecture Series, 2009.
"Science offers the best answers to the meaning of life. Science offers the privilege of understanding life before you die; why you were ever born in the first place". Richard Dawkins
Publications and Conferences
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