I. Darwazeh

Izzat Darwazeh graduated with a Ph.D. from UMIST in 1991 for his studies on high-speed fibre receiver designs and FDDI systems before moving to the University of Wales at Bangor, working on multigigahertz fibre systems and MMIC design techniques. e now lectures at UMIST where he is a member of both the Fibre Communications and the Solid State Electronics research groups, working on high-speed optical fibre systems, advanced MMIC and OEIC optical receiver structures and optical fibre networks.