Peter Gardner

Emeritus Professor of Microwave Engineering 
MA, MSc, PhD, FHEA, FIET 
Former Head of Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham

Professor Peter Gardner joined the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Birmingham University as a lecturer in 1994. His research interests are in active and passive microwave and mm-wave component development, including active antennas, mm-wave antennas, wireless transceivers, low noise amplifiers and linearisation of microwave transmitters. 

He has designed and delivered many taught programme modules including undergraduate modules in IT and Communication Skills, Communications Systems, Algorithms and Data Structures, and postgraduate modules on RF and Microwave Circuit Design and on Satellite, Mobile and Optical Communications. 

After graduating in Physics with first class honours from the University of Oxford in 1980, he gained eight years of industrial experience in research and development of active microwave components for Ferranti International, Poynton, Cheshire. He then returned to academic research, joining the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at UMIST, Manchester, as a Research Associate, in the course of which he obtained an M.Sc. in 1990 and PhD in 1992. He has over 240 publications on microwave and mm-wave component design and radar research. He has carried out consultancy work for a number of radar and communications companies and is currently a member of the Technical Committee of antenna company Novocomms.