Why the University of Huddersfield?
Professor Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang Director of UK EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology Jane began her career as a very young apprentice and spent 20 years in the Chinese automotive industry finishing her industrial career as a fully qualified Engineer. In 1990, she started her academic life as an MSc student. She obtained her PhD in measurement science in 1995. She was awarded a Chair in 2003, a DSc for Precision Metrology in 2007 and the Director of the EPSRC Centre in Advanced Metrology in 2011. Jane possesses both industrial and academic backgrounds in measurement science and precision engineering and enjoys creative research moving the subject forward. Jane’s research involves two major aspects: optical interferometry technology for fast on/in–line surface/geometry measurement; and mathematical modelling with characterisation technology for surface metrology. Besides this, she enjoys philosophical research in this subject area, successfully leading a Paradigm Shifts Review in Surface Metrology (Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 2007) and a 2011 Royal Society Discussion Meeting “Ultra Precision Engineering – from Physics to Manufacturing” (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2012).
Jane has published over 230 papers, author/ co–authored eight books and several patents on measurement science/surface metrology. Currently, she holds a prestigious Frontier Research Programme (Advanced Scheme) sponsored by the European Research Council for well–established word–leading researchers. She is a Principal Member of ISO/TC 213 and BSI TW/4, as well as an Advisory Member for the UK National Measurement System. Jane was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the Outstanding Asian Woman of Achievement Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FRENG), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technologies (FIET), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the International Academy of Production Research (FCIRP).
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