Contact Details

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Position

Senior Research Associate and Director of the Auto-ID Lab (Cambridge, UK)

Affiliation

Dr Mark Harrison

Current position

Mark joined the Auto-ID Lab in May 2002, initially working on software for tracking systems within our automation laboratory. Over the years, he has been involved in a number of projects including the EU BRIDGE project, the Drug Security Network, Aerospace ID Technologies programme and more recently, Airport Operations and SAHNE.
Mark plays a very active role within GS1 EPCglobal in the development of technical standards for networked RFID and has participated in the development of the EPC Information Services (EPCIS) standard, as well as co-chairing the Tag Data Translation 1.0 work group, the Data Discovery Joint Requirements Group and he currently co-chairs the Discovery Services work group and participates in the GS1 Architecture Group.
He has also contributed an open source java library module for EPC Tag Data Translation to the Fosstrak open source platform.
Mark became Director of the Auto-ID Lab in Cambridge in April 2007 and Prof. Duncan McFarlane continues as an Associate Director of the Auto-ID Lab in Cambridge.

Background

B.A. Natural Sciences (Physics) in 1988-1991 - Christ's College, Cambridge. 1st class.

Ph. D. at the Cavendish Laboratory Oct 1991 - Feb 1995, entitled "Optical studies of charged excitations in conjugated polymers and oligomers" in research group of Prof. Richard Friend.

Research fellow at St. John's College, October 1994 - September 1997 - further research into spectroscopy of conjugated oligomers and photocurrent spectra of conjugated polymers, two book chapters published in "Electronic Materials - The Oligomer Approach" and "Handbook of Oligo- and Polythiophenes". October 1997 - March 1999: Further post-doctoral research in the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany with Prof. H. Baessler and Prof. G. Weiser - on electroabsorption spectroscopy and two-photon absorption of ladder polymers. Returned to Cambridge April 1999 - working for Cambridge Advanced Electronics plc. (formerly Seescan, later became Internet-Extra Ltd.), initially doing contract work for Cambridge Display Technology - then developing internet applications for teleworking and for large volume data synchronisation and web capture services ( http://www.active-brochure.com ). Internet-Extra Ltd. ceased operations at end of 2001. January-April 2002 - further intranet development for the Optoelectronics group, Cavendish Laboratory and EU research network on flat-panel displays ( http://www.flatnet.org ).

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Other interests

Hillwalking, cycling, photography ( http://www.scenicviews.org ) and preparing home-made ice-cream and sorbets.