Jeremy Daniel McKendrick Watson CBE FREng FIET is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Systems at University College London, UK. He was formerly President (2016–17) of the

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Early life

Watson studied Electronics at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

from 1972 - 1974. He was awarded a masters degree in

Cybernetics Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action. It is concerned with ...

in 1976. In 1982, he completed his PhD degree in

Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...

from the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

, UK.

Career

Following an early career as an electronics designer and product manager at the Eurotherm group, Watson was BO
Edwards
Technology Director, then Arup's Global Research Director and, concurrently Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the UK Department of Communities and Local Government (now MHCLG). He later joined th
UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences
initially serving as a Vice-Dean, where he is now Professor of Engineering Systems. (Emeritus from June 2024.) He works within the department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy
STEaPP
. Watson was also, until 08/21 the Chief Scientist & Engineer o
BRE Group
UK. Until 2023, he was a member of th
NPL
Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and has been a visiting professor at

Aston University Aston University (abbreviated as ''Aston'' for post-nominals) is a public university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first College of a ...

, the

and the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

, UK. Watson was from 2016 - 2024, the Director and Principal Investigator of the EPSRC-funde
PETRAS
National Centre of Excellence - a consortium of researchers from 24 universities working on making Internet of Things and Edge systems safe and secure. Recent interests include work to develop a cross-disciplinary Net Zero What Works Centre
NZWWC
. He is a Fellow and recent trustee of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senio ...

, and was founding chair of the National Engineering Policy Centre committee at RAEng. Watson has served on the governing boards o
Innovate UK and EPSRC
and was appointed to th
UK Committee on Research Integrity
(UKCORI) in 2022, where he is specialising in Engineering research integrity and AI. Jeremy Watson is a volunteer (2024 -) and Trustee (2025 -) at Amberley Museum.

Awards

Watson was elected to the

in 2010. He was awarded a CBE by the Queen for services to Engineering in 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Jeremy Living people British engineers Academics of the University of Southampton Alumni of the University of Sussex Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Year of birth missing (living people)