Directors
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The Directors of the trading businesses include:Richard Wylde - Managing Director of both businessesRead Natural Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and then completed a PhD with Prof Derek Martin in the Department of Physics, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London.
He dives in caves - The photo was taken before entering the Devil's Eye Cave System in Gilcrist County, Florida with the Instructor Steve Berman (left) - sadly now deceased. Click here if you feel the need to learn more about Cave Diving or of his current project - mapping of the Minotauros system in the Yucatan.
Holding the Planck HFI focal plain structure Richard Wylde - Thomas Keating Ltd - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Ken Wood - Sales Director of QMC InstrumentsKen is a graduate of both London University and Sussex University, and has been involved in Far Infrared and Submillimetre physics since 1979. He has been with QMC Instruments since 1984. He enjoys travelling, which is a good thing really, because he sees a lot of the world when visiting QMC Instruments clients. Here he is in front of the 45M dish at NRO at Noybeyama in Japan.
Ken Wood - QMC Instruments Ltd - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Adam Woodcraft - Research and Operations DirectorFollowing a degree and then PhD in physics at Manchester University, Adam has spread his career across various types of physics research with a common theme of getting things very cold. His first experience of cryogenics came with an undergraduate experiment which involved playing with liquid helium; he enjoyed this so much that he later married his lab partner. His introduction to the world of Terahertz detection began while working on cooled detectors for the European Space Agency Herschel and Planck missions, now successfully doing astronomy a million miles from the Earth. This was followed by a major role on another astronomical instrument, SCUBA-2, where he led the low temperature thermal design while in the Astronomical Instrumentation Group in Cardiff. Other work on SCUBA-2 included testing the world's first 1000 pixel arrays for sub-mm astronomy. More recently he was awarded an Advanced Research Fellowship in Scotland, splitting his time between Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh. His work there involved improving instrumentation in the fields of gravitational wave detection, particle physics and astronomy, again with an emphasis on experiments that need to get very cold. He moved to QMC Instruments in November 2010. He has a particular interest in material properties relevant to cryogenic instrument design, having given various talks and published many papers on this topic. Outside work, Adam likes travel and reading, and sometimes reading about travel. Adam in front of the North Korean border after the IRMMW/THz conference in Busan, South Korea Adam Woodcraft - QMC Instruments Ltd - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Michael Clack - Works Director
Michael Clack - Thomas Keating Ltd - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Trevor Walker - Scientific Instrument DirectorInstrument maker Trevor Walker makes most of the QO systems that TK builds. Here he is assembling a two colour Interferometer for NIFS in Japan.  |
