David Cumming has B.Eng (Glasgow, 1989) and PhD (Cambridge, 1993) degrees. He has worked variously on mesoscopic device physics, RF characterization of novel devices, fabrication of diffractive optics for optical and sub-millimeter wave applications and microelectronic design. He is presently Professor of Microsystem Technology and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow in Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, U.K. where he leads the Microsystem Technology Group.