Professor Michael Kelly has been Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow at Trinity Hall since 2002, and in an emeritus capacity since 2016. He was educated to MSc level at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand 1971 and completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1974 in solid state theory, continuing with post-doc work until 1981. He joined GEC and was there to 1992, developed two new families of microwave devices that went, and are still, in production with E2V Technologies at Lincoln. He spent the years 199202002 at the University of Surrey including a term as Head of the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences. Since returning to Cambridge he was the Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute 2003-5, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Communities and Local Government 2006-9, and non-executive Director of Laird plc, 2006-15. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
