Michael Read

M. E. Read (Life Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and plasma physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1975. His graduate work was on the generation and propagation of intense relativistic electron beams (IREBs). Following his post-doctoral work, he worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC, USA, where he was the Head of the Gyrotron Oscillators and Plasma Interactions Section, Plasma Physics Division, from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, he became a Principal Research Engineer at Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA, USA, where he was responsible for research programs on microwave and electron beam generation and their applications. In 1999, he joined Calabazas Creek Research, Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA, where he is responsible for electron gun and high-power microwave device research.