Norman Apsley is the former Chief Executive Officer of

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, formerly known as the Northern Ireland Science Park. Apsley is a board member of Matrix, the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at

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. He was appointed an honorary professor at the

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in 1989, and is also a visiting professor for the University of Ulster. In 2011, he was elected as a Fellow of the

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.Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows elected in 2011
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from Queen's University Belfast for services to business and commerce. He was educated at

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, and then at the

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where he achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. He went on to study for a PhD in amorphous semiconductors at

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. Dr Apsley became a Fellow of Jesus College.

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