Dr Martin Ridge

Martin Ridge joined the Energy Technologies Institute as Director - Corporate Services in January 2008 on a two year secondment from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, where he was Deputy Head of the Research Councils Unit.

His background is in scientific research and technology transfer in academia and industry in thin films, surface science and compound semiconductors.  He has worked in Brussels for the Eureka Secretariat and has considerable experience of EU and UK collaborative research programmes in the general area of innovation and knowledge transfer.  More recently he was involved in developing the Department for Trade and Industry's strategy and establishing the Energy Technologies Institute.

Martin graduated from Loughborough University of Technology in 1984 with a BSc in Electronic Engineering and Physics and a PhD in thin films and surface science.  He earned an MBA from London Business School in 1991 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer.