Rate My Professor Marina Antoniou

Professor Marina Antoniou is a Professor in Semiconductor Devices in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, a position she has held since 2025. She earned her PhD, MEng, BA, and MA from the University of Cambridge, Trinity College. Throughout her career, she has secured several highly competitive research fellowships and grants, including the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship on SiC Power Devices for Smart Grid Systems (£635k), an EPSRC grant unlocking the potential of Silicon Carbide in Power Electronics (£685k), a Royal Society grant on Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs (£800k), a Junior Research Fellowship at Selwyn College, and an Early Career EPSRC Centre for Power Electronics award. These initiatives focused on the design and development of high-power SiC and Si devices. As Principal Investigator, she leads projects such as "Unlocking the Future Potential of SiC in Power Electronics" (EPSRC, November 2024 to June 2027), "Innovations in SiC power MOSFET gate technology through the use of ALD oxides" (Innovate UK/InnoSuisse Bilateral, July 2024 to March 2027), "Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship Extension" (Royal Society, March 2024 to March 2027), and "A New Generation of Power Semiconductor Devices: the SiC SJ IGBT" (Royal Society, 2019 to 2026).

Professor Antoniou's research specializations encompass the analysis, development, and modelling of power electronics, including novel switches and devices to enhance energy efficiency, reliability, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness for medium and high voltage applications. Her work also covers power microelectronics circuit design and high-frequency power electronics utilizing wide bandgap materials like SiC and Diamond. She has published extensively in leading IEEE journals, with her contributions receiving awards at major international conferences. She holds seven patents and has authored two book chapters. In leadership roles, she served as Chair of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Power Devices & ICs Committee (2022–2025) and is an elected member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Board of Governors (from January 2026) and the EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team (from March 2026). She holds editorial positions as Editor of the IEEE Electron Devices Magazine, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Elsevier Power Electronic Devices and Components, Elsevier Microelectronics Reliability, and Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A, and is Editor-in-Chief of a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on power devices in the automotive industry (June 2026). Additionally, she serves as Scientific Advisor for the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology on semiconductor policy, previously as a Royal Society Policy Associate shadowing the Chief Scientific Advisor, and contributed to government groups on advanced materials and technology convergence.