Professor JT Janssen, Chief Scientist at NPL, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of a career spanning a wide range of topics in solid-state physics applied to metrology and materials characterisation.
In his role as Chief Scientist, JT is responsible for the external scientific engagements with academia and other government organisations and provides scientific leadership across a wide range of disciplines in physics, engineering, chemistry, material science, mathematics and medical life sciences area.
Throughout his career, JT has established an international reputation for his work on the behaviour of electrons in nanostructured devices with the aim of developing a quantum standard for electrical current. He also made contributions to the understanding of the quantum Hall effect in graphene, and the Josephson effect.
