Professor Chris Toumazou

Who is Professor Chris Toumazou?

Christofer "Chris" Toumazou, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FIET, FIEEE, FCGI, FRSM, CEng is a British electronic engineer. In 2013 he became London’s First Regius Professor of Engineering conferred to Imperial College during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Toumazou is also Chief Scientist of the [Institute of Biomedical Engineering] and Professor of Circuit Design at Imperial College London; founder of Toumaz Holdings Ltd, CEO and founder of DNA Electronics Ltd. and Chief Scientific Advisor to GENEU.

Chris has been involved in developing new technologies and in medical research. He created a medical research institute and three commercial ventures to commercialize his research. In particular Toumazou invented and licensed Portable and Rapid Semiconductor Genome Sequencing which has now become a multibillion dollar industry. One of his motivators was the diagnosis of his 13 year old son with end stage kidney failure through a rare genetic mutation.

He has published over 700 research papers and holds 50 patents in the field of semiconductors and healthcare many of which are now fully granted PCT. Toumazou developed some innovations in silicon technology and integrated circuit design.