Professor Martin Kuball, FIEEE, FInstP, FIET, Fellow of MRS and the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) is Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, Professor in Physics and Director of the Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR) at the University of Bristol. He spearheads the UK development of next generation wide bandgap and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors. Prof. Kuball was awarded in 2015 the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for his research on wide bandgap electronic devices, in particular on the integration of GaN with diamond for ultra-high power RF devices. He holds a PhD from the Max-Planck Institute in Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, and prior to joining the University of Bristol was Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University, USA.