On the Possible Existence of a Quantum Linear Voigt Effect in Planar Magnetic Materials at Low Temperatures

Neil Collings was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in the Natural Sciences Tripos. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Salford. At the beginning of his career he worked in birefringence studies and optical sensors. He began studying liquid crystal spatial light modulators during his work at the Standard Telecommunications Laboratories. He has continued working in the field of liquid crystal devices and their associated optical systems up until the present time. In 1999, he returned to the University of Cambridge, where he became a Reader in Liquid Crystal Photonics in the Photonics and Sensors group of the Department of Engineering. He then joined Two Trees Photonics as a Photonic Systems Architect. The company is presently known as Envisics Ltd. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Institute of Physics in 1995.