Rob Slade is a Physics graduate with 33 years of experience in the industrial application of electromagnetic technology at the system level. Rob joined us in April 2016 having worked at Rolls Royce, Oxford Instruments & Siemens in a variety of engineering and management roles. More recently, at Robinson Research in New Zealand, he developed novel MRI systems using HTS technology.
Rob has developed considerable experience in balancing technical risk against the need to make rapid progress in a cost-effective way during his career, and has developed several commercial products in diverse fields from medical healthcare to down-hole oil-field instrumentation. He is a named inventor in over 30 patent families, and has had a life long interest in breakthrough technologies.
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