About the Authors

Ronald Pethig is Professor of Bioelectronics in the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, and holds PhD degrees in electrical engineering (Southampton) and physical chemistry (Nottingham) with a DSc awarded for work in biomolecular electronics from the University of Southampton. He has enjoyed a long association with the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, being elected a Corporation Member in 1982 and an Adjunct Senior Scientist in 2005. Ron is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and of the Institute of Physics, and is author of Dielectric and Electronic Properties of Biological Materials published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. He has received several awards, including being the first recipient in 2001 of the Herman P. Schwan Award, and serves as editor-in-chief of the IET journal Nanobiotechnology and editor of the Wiley Microsystem and Nanotechnology series.

Stewart Smith is an RCUK Academic Fellow with the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD in 2003 at the University of Edinburgh and since then has worked as a researcher at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre working on research ranging from microelectronic test and measurement to microsystems for biomedical applications. Prior to his appointment to the RCUK fellowship, he was lead researcher on an industrially funded project that developed a prototype implantable drug delivery device for the treatment of ocular disease. A paper resulting from this work later won the 2008 IET Nanobiotechnology Premium Award. Stewart is a member of the technical committee for the IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures. His research interests include the design and fabrication of biomedical microsystems, test structures for MEMS processes and the electrical characterisation of advanced photolithography.