Jeremy Daniel McKendrick Watson

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and Scholarship, fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK a ...

FIET is professor of Engineering Systems at University College London, UK. He was formerly president (2016–17) of the

IET __NOTOC__ IET can refer to: Organizations * Institute of Educational Technology, part of the Open University * Institution of Engineering and Technology, a UK-based professional engineering institution ** Institute of Engineers and Technicians, wh ...

Early life

Watson studied Electronics at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

from 1972 - 1974. He was awarded a masters degree in

Cybernetics Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...

in 1976. In 1982, he completed his PhD degree in

Biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

from the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

, UK.

Career

Watson was BO
Edwards
Technology Director, then Arup's Global Research Director and Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the UK Department of Communities and Local Government (now DLUHC). He later joine
UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences
where he is Professor of Engineering Systems. He works within the department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy
STEaPP
. He was, until recently (08/21) the Chief Scientist & Engineer of BRE Group, UK. He is a member of th
NPL
Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and has been a visiting professor at

Aston University Aston University (abbreviated as ''Aston''. for post-nominals) is a public research university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first c ...

, the

and the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

, UK. Watson is the Director and Principal Investigator of the EPSRC-funde
PETRAS
National Centre of Excellence - a consortium of researchers from 22 universities working on making Internet of Things and Edge systems safe and secure. He is a fellow and trustee of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

, and was founding chair of the National Engineering Policy Centre committee.

Awards

Watson was elected to the

in 2010. He was awarded a

by the Queen for services to Engineering in 2013.

References

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