Neil White is the current Research Director of USITT. His thesis entitled "A study of the piezoresistive effect in thick-film resistors and its application to load transduction." was awarded the 1989 Educational Prize from the International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics (ISHM). Neil was employed as a research fellow until 1990 when he was appointed as lecturer.

He is the co-author of the book Intelligent Sensor Systems. His research interests include thick-film sensors and intelligent instrumentation. His current EPSRC funded contracts include "Thick-film acoustic wave sensors", "Intelligent gas sensor arrays" and the recent ROPA on "Combined thick-film/silicon micromachined structures".

His professional qualifications include Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist and he is involved with various committees in the IEE and IOP. Currently he is Chairman of the ISAT Group of the Institute of Physics and is also a member of Professional Group J1S. He was the Guest Editor and co-author of the special issue on 'Thick-film sensors' for the January 1997 edition of Measurement Science and Technology.

Steve obtained his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Portsmouth University in 1992. He has recently completed his PhD at USITT during which he studied the design of micromachined silicon resonant structures and stress relieving packages. His areas of interest include resonant sensor design, silicon sensors and actuators, finite element modelling, silicon micromachining, silicon bonding processes and sensor packaging design. Steve is currently working on an industrially funded project to design and develop a resonant silicon strain gauge using novel micromachining processes. He is also developing the micromachining processes enabling the combination of thick-film printing with silicon. He has 24 publications in the field of micromachined silicon sensors.

Neil completed his degree in Applied Physics at Strathclyde in 1993 and then began working for the Underwater section of the Defence Research Agency (DERA). Based in Gosport, Hampshire, this work involved both the simulation and measurement of noise radiation from underwater vehicles. In 1997, he moved to the Above Water section of DERA, specifically, the Infra-Red Sensors division. Here, much time was spent modelling performance aspects of IRST (Infra-Red Search and Track) sensors. Additionally, IR data gathering trials were undertaken. In 1998, he embarked upon PhD research in USITT in the Electronics & Computer Science Department at Southampton University.

Edward James obtained the degree of BEng in Electronic and Broadcast Engineering from the University of Brighton in 1997. In 1999, after two years with a medical electronics company, he obtained an industry based MSc in Quality procedures, production and FDA approval of Windows based software. Edward is currently researching into signal extraction techniques for self powered microsystems within USITT at the University of Southampton.