Professor David MacKay

Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Professor

David MacKay has been appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser to DECC on 1 October 2009.

David studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, before heading off to the USA to complete a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech.

In 1992 he returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. In 1995 he became a university lecturer in the Department of Physics, where he was promoted in 1999 to a Readership and in 2003 to a Professorship in Natural Philosophy.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.




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