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Timothy Leighton
Timothy Grant Leighton (born 16 October 1963) is a British scientist. He is the Executive General Director and Inventor-in-Chief of Sloan Water Technology Ltd., best known for his work in bubble acoustics, planetary acoustics and medical acoustics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Leighton received a double first class Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in physics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University in 1985, and in 1988 he earned his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Leighton was affiliated with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, from 1992 to 2024 as a lecturer in underwater acoustics and was awarded a personal chair by University of Southampton at the age of 35. He founded and led two research organisations with international membership (Global-NAMRIP and HEFUA).
Since the mid-2000s, Leighton attempted to increase interest in using sound to explore other planets by predicting the soundscapes of other worlds and how these could best be exploited using acoustic devices, led to devices for planetaria to use when teaching about other worlds, and showed how careful calculation was needed to avoid mistakes when using acoustic sensors on other worlds. Leighton supported the Mars Perseverance and Ingenuity missions.
In 2015, Leighton founded the Global Network for AntiMicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention (Global-NAMRIP). Global-NAMRIP organised conferences, fostered collaborations and stimulated new areas of research, aimed at solutions that the end-users could implement for patients and public health. He is quoted as saying
We need to work with rigour, imagination, and wonder, unconstrained by the artificial boundaries set in place by discipline names, or the history of projects in which we have previously worked, or the tendency of sponsors to believe they can pick winners, or above all by the belief that we must jump to solutions when we have not yet perceived the real problem. Then, when we eventually do find a solution, we must have the will to push it through all the way to help others, and not simply publish in the expectation that someone will finish the job for us.
In 2015, Leighton founded the research group Health Effects of Ultrasound in Air (HEFUA). His aim was to map the increasing use of ultrasound in public places, and to investigate whether or not this increase is having adverse effects on some humans.
Leighton is an Academician of three National Academies. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) in 2000, and was awarded Fellowships of the Institute of Acoustics in 1999, and the Acoustical Society of America in 1998, and Fellowship of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1988. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Loughborough University. In 2018, Professor Leighton became a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV).
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Timothy Leighton
Timothy Grant Leighton (born 16 October 1963) is a British scientist. He is the Executive General Director and Inventor-in-Chief of Sloan Water Technology Ltd., best known for his work in bubble acoustics, planetary acoustics and medical acoustics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Leighton received a double first class Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in physics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University in 1985, and in 1988 he earned his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Leighton was affiliated with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, from 1992 to 2024 as a lecturer in underwater acoustics and was awarded a personal chair by University of Southampton at the age of 35. He founded and led two research organisations with international membership (Global-NAMRIP and HEFUA).
Since the mid-2000s, Leighton attempted to increase interest in using sound to explore other planets by predicting the soundscapes of other worlds and how these could best be exploited using acoustic devices, led to devices for planetaria to use when teaching about other worlds, and showed how careful calculation was needed to avoid mistakes when using acoustic sensors on other worlds. Leighton supported the Mars Perseverance and Ingenuity missions.
In 2015, Leighton founded the Global Network for AntiMicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention (Global-NAMRIP). Global-NAMRIP organised conferences, fostered collaborations and stimulated new areas of research, aimed at solutions that the end-users could implement for patients and public health. He is quoted as saying
We need to work with rigour, imagination, and wonder, unconstrained by the artificial boundaries set in place by discipline names, or the history of projects in which we have previously worked, or the tendency of sponsors to believe they can pick winners, or above all by the belief that we must jump to solutions when we have not yet perceived the real problem. Then, when we eventually do find a solution, we must have the will to push it through all the way to help others, and not simply publish in the expectation that someone will finish the job for us.
In 2015, Leighton founded the research group Health Effects of Ultrasound in Air (HEFUA). His aim was to map the increasing use of ultrasound in public places, and to investigate whether or not this increase is having adverse effects on some humans.
Leighton is an Academician of three National Academies. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) in 2000, and was awarded Fellowships of the Institute of Acoustics in 1999, and the Acoustical Society of America in 1998, and Fellowship of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1988. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Loughborough University. In 2018, Professor Leighton became a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV).
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