Miles Padgett holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is Principal Investigator of QuantIC , the UK's Centre of excellence for
research, development and innovation in quantum enhanced imaging. This centre
brings together eight Universities with more than 40 industry partners.
During his 5-year term as Vice-Principal for Research (2014-19) he and his team championed how an improved research culture was not an alternative to
excellence but rather what would allow more of us to excel. He is a Fellow the Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy, and has won a various national and international prize including the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. In 2019 he was also named by Web of Science as globally highly-cited researcher, one of only eight physicists in the UK.
