Curriculum Vitae: Colin Windsor

Prof. Colin Windsor, BA, DPhil, FInstP, FBInstNDT, FRS

Tokamak Energy , D3, Culham Laboratory, Oxon., OX14 3DB: 01235 466652

1938 Born 28/6/1938 Beckenham Kent, UK.

Qualifications

1995 Fellow of the Royal Society

1994 Fellow of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing

1990 Honorary Professor of Physics at Birmingham University

1986 Awarded the IoP Duddell medal for developments in instrumentation

1975 Fellow of the Institute of Physics

1963 DPhil, Magnetic Properties of Coupled Systems, Clarendon, Oxford

1960 BA (Hons, Class I Physics, Oxford

Positions and Activities

2013- Consultant, Tokamak Energy: Research on the design of compact fusion power using spherical tokamaks, high temperature superconductors. The use of neutronics computations to design the optimal shield to reduce heat deposition and damage to the superconducting core. Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel

1998-2013 Consultant, UKAEA Fusion: Research on the application of neural networks and fuzzy logic to plasma physics: particularly the prediction of disruptions, the validation of control data, and plasma boundary reconstruction and control. Econophysics: the prediction of exchange markets

1992- Collaboration with the University of Florence, Electronic Engineering Department on the location and classification of buried anti-personnel land-mines, using data fusion of RADAR and electro-magnetic signals, advanced signal analysis, and classification of RADAR images

1998-9 Senior Consultant, PenOp: Developer and sales of signature capture and verification software. Front-end research in the development, testing, patent drafting and documentation of the signature verification algorithm.

1998 Retired full time employment at UKAEA (Regular retirement at age 60)

1996-1998 Programme Area Manager (Special Studies) UKAEA Fusion. Management of the £ 250K/year programme of research work outside DTI management. The work included assessment of proposals, budget control and chairing external programme reviews. The post carried membership of the Fusion Management Committee.

1996-1998 Manager of the JET A14 Workpackage: This involved management of a £ 385K/year contract with AEA Technology including setting up QA systems and contracts, formal approval of work packages, and budget control.

1997- Accredited Meetings Facilitator for the UKAEA. This followed formal facilitator training by UKAEA consultants and practical experience with an internal Fusion working group. There have been annual training reviews.

1996-1998 UKAEA member of the TAGSI (Task Group for System Integrity) risk analysis group. This committee of representatives from the Electrical Utilities, Universities and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate had the remit of responding to formal questions on risk analysis in the nuclear industry posed by its members.

1986-1998 Chairman: Harwell Criticality Committee: This committee had the remit of ensuring safety from nuclear criticality accidents at Harwell. I had the responsibility for introducing formal Quality Assurance procedures to its work. I received formal safety training through AEA Technology's Training Module for Safety Working Party Chairmen. I was previously Chairman of the Materials Physics Safety Committee from 1974 to 1986, and a member of the Harwell Safety Committee.

1989-1994 Senior Scientist member of Harwell's Neural Network Group. Research on weld defect classification, time series prediction of financial indices, gas chromatography analysis, (patent) static and dynamic signature verification (patents). The signature verification systems were featured twice on "Tomorrow's World" and were sold by AEAT after privatization to the UK Company PenOp.

1989-91 Chairman: ESPRIT II, ANNIE Project "Pattern Recognition Group". This project was for the Application of Neural Networks for Industry in Europe, with industrial partners Siemens (Germany), CETIM (France) and British Aerospace and AI Ltd. (UK) and Alpha (Greece). The pattern recognition group worked on defect classification in welds and printed circuit boards. It was described by Commission reviewers as the "jewel in Annie's crown". The on-line weld defect classification demonstrator was selected to represent ESPRIT at the Avignon AI conference in 1991.

1980-1994 Senior Scientist member of the National Non-Destructive Testing Centre, Harwell. Winning, managing and performing industrial research contracts from industry. These were principally in the areas of residual stress measurement by neutron diffraction, microstructural characterisation by neutron small angle scattering, and Probability of Detection in X-radiography. Organiser of the one-day meetings Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks in NDT, at Northampton in 1996 and Neutron Diffraction Techniques for NDE (also guest editor) at Warwick in 1989.

1972-1980 Group Leader in Neutron Physics at AERE Harwell (later Pulsed Neutron Group). Leader of a research team with responsibility for neutron scattering studies. In particular the industrial contract research programme was developed, and instruments designed, built and commissioned on the new pulsed neutron scattering target station on the Harwell Linac. Wrote Pulsed Neutron Scatttering book in 1981.