Andrew Ellis

Andrew Ellis is professor of optical communications at Aston University, UK, where he is also deputy director of the Institute of Photonics Technologies. His research interests include the evolution of core and metro networks and the application of photonics to sensing. He has published over 170 journal papers and over 25 patents in the field of photonics, primarily targeted at increasing capacity, reach, and functionality in the optical layer. Prof. Ellis is a member of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Engineering Technology and a Chartered Physicist. He is an associate editor of Optics Express.