Professor Colm Durkan
FREng
Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge , as of Sep 2026
Fellow , Elected 2024 , East of England , Academia
Head of Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, working on nanotechnology and engineering education. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Summary generated from the sources below
Expertise
- Engineering Education
- Nanoengineering
- Nanomanufacturing
- Nanotechnology
- Surface Engineering
- Adsorption
- Advanced Materials
- Carbon
- Devices
- Education
- Electrolysis
- Electron Lithography
- Electron Microscopy
- Electronic Devices
- Electronic Materials
- Fabrication
- Ferroelectric
- Friction
- Image
- Instrumentation
- Intermolecular Forces
- Materials Research
- Microscopy
- Modelling
- Multidisciplinary
- Nanomaterials
- Physical Characterisation
- Physics
- Piezoelectric Devices
- Resonant Tunnelling Devices
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Semiconductor
- Sensor
- Spectroscopy
- Surface
- Thin Film
- Tunnelling
- Undergraduate
- Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
- Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Graphene research and applications
- Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
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- Identity
Confirmed (grade A) , Wikidata records their election in 2024 , Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026
Why we think this is them
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , records their election in 2024
OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , matches the ORCID record Wikidata gives
RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , lists them under University of Cambridge
RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , announces their election in 2024
eng.cam.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , states they are a Fellow
- Directory entry
RAEng directory , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence
- Role
RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence , as of 2024
- Organisation
RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence , as of 2024
- Sector
RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , inferred from the organisation , facts , high confidence , as of 2024
- Summary
OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , medium confidence
RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , high confidence
RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , high confidence
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , high confidence
- Links
RAEng citation: RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence , as of 2024
ORCID: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
ORCID, Wikidata: Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
OpenAlex: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence