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Thomas Joseph Brazil

BE, PhD

Professor of Electronic Engineering UCD

ScienceElected in 2005

Thomas J. ("Tom") Brazil holds the Chair of Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin where he is Head of Electronic Engineering in the UCD School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.  He received his PhD from the National University of Ireland in 1977.  His research interests are in the broad areas of non-linear modelling and characterisation techniques at the device, circuit and system level within high-frequency electronics.  
Professor Brazil was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) in 2004 and was appointed to the Senate of the National University of Ireland in 2012.  He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society and in October 2016 he was elected as President of the MTT-Society in 2018,  He is serving as MTT President-Elect in 2017.  

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