Tony Brown
Professor Tony Brown
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning)
Professional biography
Tony Brown currently holds the Chair in Communication Engineering at The University of Manchester, joining academia in 2003 as Communications Group Leader in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering after a 30 year industrial career including senior Board level positions. The School is the largest of its type in the UK with 62 academics and approximately 800 students. He was appointed Associate Dean, Teaching & Learning, within the Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences in 2008.
Since joining academia Professor Brown has involved himself both in research and in academic teaching quality matters. He is heavily involved in ultra-wide band communications and radar, in propagation studies and in radio astronomy instrumentation antennas. He has acted as an international consultant on marine safety related radar matters (including Vessel Traffic Radar) Professor Brown has served on numerous international committees, including membership of the Technical Advisory Commission (TAC) to the Federal Communication Commission (USA). Tony has lectured widely on technical and managerial topics at the invitation of such organisations as the FAA. Tony has acted as external advisor to UK universities in course development. His appointment as an External Examiner includes the University of Oxford (undergraduate programmes) and Surrey University together with Brunel University for postgraduate (taught) programmes.
A physicist and mathematician by training, he has worked for GEC-Marconi Research (now BAeSystems ATC), Standard Telecommunications Laboratories (now Nortel), University of Surrey (as the first Racal Telecommunications Fellow) and Racal before forming Easat Antennas Ltd in 1987. Easat is today recognised as an international supplier of specialist high performance radar and communications equipment. Professor Brown is retained as a part-time Chairman of the company.
Tony Brown has been involved directly with governments in Europe and the Far East as a technical advisor. He was a founder member of the EPSRC Communications College. Tony has had a career long involvement with computer based analysis techniques and was the first chairman of the UK Chapter of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (1986).
Contact information
Room Number: E10b
Location: Sackville
Street Building
Tel: +44(0)161 306
4779
Email: Anthony.Brown@manchester.ac.uk