Professor Joe McGeehan completed his BEng (Hons) in 1967 at the University of Liverpool, and since then has been instrumental in mobile communications. He is even referred to as the 'godfather of mobile communications'.
Professor McGeehan's achievements in research have been acknowledged by membership of a number of national and international committees in the field of Communications, external examiner positions and mentoring of start-up companies. Emeritus Professor of Communications Engineering at University of Bristol.
Professor McGeehan is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (FIEE) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).
His involvement in Communications over several decades led to being awarded in the Queens Birthday Honours 2004 a CBE for ‘services to the Communications Industry’. Joe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1994 and was listed in 2004 as No.6 in the world’s ‘Technology Agenda Setters’ by silicon.com, just a few places behind Bill Gates.
Joe also offers his expertise as a mentor for start-up companies and is the founder of ‘Invest Bristol and Bath)’ which is part of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership.
Professor McGeehan has published more than 200 papers in the field of mobile communication systems, RF engineering, microwave theory and techniques, radio-wave propagation, signal processing and plasma physics.