S. J. C. Yates

Stephen Yates received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., in 2003, working on experimental low temperature techniques for condensed matter physics. He then joined the CNRS-CRTBT Grenoble, Grenoble, France, as a Postdoctoral Researcher involved with low temperature magnetism and superconductivity, during 2003–2004, which was followed by his research on the development of low temperature detectors and techniques for astrophysics, also at CNRS-CRTBT, during 2004–2006. He is currently an Instrument Scientist involved with superconducting microwave kinetic inductance detectors with SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Groningen, The Netherlands, which he started in 2006. His research interests concentrate on MKID development for sub-mm applications, but also include a wider interest in device physics and superconductivity, optical design, and full end-to-end instrument characterization and performance. He has authored over 60 papers.