Ian Dennis Longstaff
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Student Apprentice 1956-61
College of Electronics
Royal Radar Establishment
Higher National Diploma EE, ONC Mec Eng

McMichael Radio 1961- 63
Sonar Trials Engineer

The University of Birmingham  1963 - 67
GEC Scholar,
Diploma in Graduate Studies  1964
PhD - Antenna Array Systems 1965 - 67

GEC Hirst Research Center1967 - 69

Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. 1969 - 86
Senior, then Principal, Scientific Officer,
National Leader The Technical Control Panel (TTCP) on SAR/ISAR and on Target Recognition
Section Leader, Airborne Intercept Radar
Defence Science Advisory Council, Radar Cttee Member

Graduated National Defence College, Latimer UK, 1976

Senior Research Fellow, School of Physics and Geoscience, Curtin University, Western Australia. 1986-89

Defence Science and Technology Organisation,  Adelaide  1989 - 91
Senior Principal Research Scientist
Research Leader, Microwave Radar Division
National Leader TTCP, Technical Panel on Synthetic Aperture Radar

The University of Queensland, Brisbane. 1992 - 2005
Professor and Head of School,  Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Research Director, Centre for Sensor Signals and Information Processing, UQ

GroundProbe Pty Ltd  2001 - 2005
Founder and Founding Director

Emeritus Professor, The University of Queensland 2006 -

Radar Technology Consultant  2005 -
Mainly with :
Filtronics
Groundprobe
Teledyne

His work has attracted a number of awards and prizes.
The Leslie McMichael Premium from the IEE  1968
The Oliver Lodge Premium  from the IEEE in 2000
His spinoff company, GroundProbe, received an Engineering Excellence Award from the IE(Aust)Qld 2003.
He was granted a Queensland Government Smart State Award  in 2004, and an Australian
Emerging Exporter Award in 2005 (see www.groundprobe.com).
His research croup at the University of Queensland received the 2001 Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) award for their research into slope stability radar..




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