Biography

Themis Prodromakis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh where he established the Centre for Electronics Frontiers (CEF) and is currently the Head of the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS). His work focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory technologies and related applications and leads an interdisciplinary team comprising 60 researchers with expertise across materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for embedded applications. He holds an RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies and is Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET and the Institute of Physics. He served as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano- Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 26 countries and in 2025 he founded EVA that is building new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering and with the Royal Academy of Engineering Princess Royal Silver Medal in 2025.