Professor David Cardwell FREng is the
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning. He is Professor of
Superconducting Engineering and was previously Head of the Department of
Engineering. He founded the Cambridge Bulk Superconductivity Research
Group on the processing and applications of bulk high temperature
superconductors, which can be used to generate very high magnetic
fields, including the world record field on 17.6 T in a bulk
superconductor set in 2014. Professor Cardwell was elected to a
Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 in recognition of
his contribution to the development of superconducting materials for
engineering applications. He was awarded a Sc.D. by the University of
Cambridge in 2014 and an honorary D.Sc. by the University of Warwick in
2015. Professor Cardwell has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since
1993, where he was Admissions Tutor for Sciences between 2000 and 2013,
and has served 19 years as a Tutor to undergraduates.