I am completing a PhD at Queen Mary university, school of electronic engineering, antennas and electromagnetics group on FDTD simulations of RF Metamaterials. My supervisor was Professor Yang Hao, Professor Clive Parini FRS and Professor Ian Youngs (DSTL). I was funded partly by the EPRSC and partly by DSTL. I have designed applications for transformation optics to engineering electromagnetic waves and optics. I worked with the QUEST platform grant. Previous to this I completed my Masters at the University of Manchester on Physics where my final year project involved astrophysical simulations of Masers around Late type stars.
Saul Joseph Wiggin – C.V.
Summary
I have a doctorate from Queen Mary College, University of London from the school of electronic engineering and computer science. I have a undergraduate degree in Physics from The University of Manchester. I have worked as an intern doing CPU design in assembly. I have completed an internship as a web developer using VB.net, Visual Studio, MYSQL and XML for an internet of things GUI with backend, database and a web frontend. I have learnt programming languages C++, Python programming tasks in my sparetime.
Education
09/2010 - 08/2014, Queen Mary University, University of London, PhD Transformation Optics and Metamaterials
My area of Research was transformation optics and metamaterials involved in invisibility.
I was a finalist of the 2013 discovering startups competition hosted by Cambridge Wireless for a business based on my patent.
Obtained a patent on one of my device designs for BAE systems for a Rectangular Luneburg Lens.
Sponsorship of 3.5 year PhD by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratories (DSTL) and partly with a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPRSC) and platform grant on the Quest for the Ultimate in Electromagnetic Spatial Transformation (QUEST) which was a £5m grant.
I presented my work at international conferences at META14 in Paris and EUCAP in Orlando Florida.
I wrote a small popular science book called Beyond Materials: Metamaterials and Transformation Optics.
Computer Programming was written in MATLAB and C.
Antenna simulation software HFSS, FEKO, CST.
Lab work taken place in antenna measurements facility.
I learnt basic Mandarin.
09/2005 - 10/2009, The University of Manchester Msc, Physics
I specialised in particle physics.
I got experience with a LINUX operating system and programming in FORTRAN where I completed a simulation research project on laser pumping due to stellar hydrodynamics with data visualisation in IDL hosted on a supercomputer.
I took the core physics modules which included electromagnetism, nuclear physics, solid state physics, astronomy, mathematics and C# programming and took electives in philosophy. See academic transcript for marking breakdown. I specialised in physics given me excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
Laboratory work took place 2 days a week for 3 years and lab reports were created for each laboratory session of which there was one every semester each time working in a different team using different equipment.
Independent research conducted in the library and online with books and scientific journals.
09/2003 - 06/2005, King Henry VIII Sixth Form College, A-level
Maths (A) and gained 98% in maths 1, History (B), Physics (B), Biology AS (B)
I founded the Jazz club.
I captained the house hockey team to victory.
1998 - 2003, King Henry VIII School, GCSE's
10 GCSE's (2A*, 5A, 2B, 1C) including Maths, English lit, English language, IT and German
I fundraised £2000 for an expedition to trek through Outer Mongolia which climaxed with a climb up to the summit of a glacier.
Work Experience
Jan 2010-Oct 2010, Morph-Tech, Web Developer
Responsibilities included a demonstration of an 'Internet of Things' system with tags, readers, software.
Designing a GUI with VB.NET framework as an interface between the RFID tag reader and the operator.
Linking the GUI to a website using ASP.NET and calling XML web services.
Link application using query to SQL and Excel.
Antenna measurements from tags to RFID reader, range, on site surveillance in paint warehouse.
Summer 2005 Warwick Wireless Limited CPU Design Internship
Programming a CPU design in assembly for a set of traffic lights.
CPU Design
Microcontroller Design
Additional Experience
Sept 2009 – Jan 2010, AIESEC, English Teacher (TEFL)
Fluent Spanish.
Lesson Planning english lessons for small tutorials.
Sept 2008 - Sept 2009, The University of Manchester, Mathematics Tutor
This involved explaining complex ideas to new first year students on dynamics and vector mathematics required to understand electromagnetics.
Teaching small tutorial groups in mathematics, marking homework, teaching tutorials.
Sept 2009 – Jan 2010, Student Direct, Science Journalist
This activity involved people skills such as chasing leads, conducting interviews.
I developed my passion for science writing by taking science based reporting stories.
I was an active member in the political campaign to save Jodrell Bank from cuts to it’s funding.
Interests and Activities
I enjoy electronic music, DJ and I play the saxophone.
I like adventure holidays and treked to a glacier in outer mongolia when I was in sixth form , I have done bungee jumping in Colombia and would like to climb everest some day.
I like 'hacking' computer and electoronic projects in my spare time and recently completed a blog on wordpress on a raspberry pi.
