Title:  "Sustainable Electronics" by Prof Jeff Kettle
 
Summary: Professor Kettle's group focuses on improving the sustainability of electronics with a strong emphasis on enabling a circular economy. Therefore this talk will be about how the full life cycle needs to be considered for electronic and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and how we develop approaches to reduce environmental impact through design for reliability, recyclability and reuse. The talk will cover  supply chain resilience and challenges that impact the electronics industry. Finally, the talk will be about some new ideas that includes the development of biodegradable and sustainable materials for substrates, interconnects and integrated circuits, as well as greener strategies for the recovery of critical raw materials from end-of-life devices. 
 
Speaker: Professor Jeff Kettle is Professor of Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering at the University of Glasgow. His first degree at Cardiff University was in Electronic Engineering and his PhD from the University of Wales, Swansea. He joined the James Watt School of Engineering at Glasgow University in 2021, where his research focuses on sustainable and circular electronics, printed electronics, material recovery and photovoltaics. Previously, he worked at several microelectronic companies and Bangor University in North Wales.