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Semiconductor Industry Workshop - Royal Society (REACT x TechWorks)

  • The React Team
  • Feb 5
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jul 25

Date: 18 September 2025, 10 am to 4.30 pm.

Location: Royal Society, London


In collaboration with TechWorks


Help shape the future of sustainable electronics

Join the team from REACT along with leading voices from industry, academia, and government.


Be part of a national conversation to accelerate industry-academia collaboration, influence funding priorities, and ensure new regulations support innovation and growth.


Agenda and Speakers:


Keynote: "Designing for Impact: Sustainable Manufacturing and Circular Strategies in Electronics" Professor Jean-Pierre Raskin

Jean-Pierre Raskin received the M.S. and PhD degrees in applied sciences from Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is a Full Professor at the Microwave Laboratory of UCLouvain. His research interests are the modeling, wideband characterization and fabrication of advanced SOI MOSFETs as well as micro and nanofabrication of MEMS / NEMS sensors and actuators, including the extraction of intrinsic material properties at nanometer scale. He is involved in the development of a more sustainable electronics. He has been managing a Chair of Excellence in eco-innovation at CEA-Leti since January 2024. He has been IEEE Fellow since 2014. He received the Médaille BLONDEL 2015, the SOI Consortium Award 2016, the European SEMI Award 2017, the Médaille AMPERE 2019, the Georges Vanderlinden Prize 2021 and the IET Achievement Medal in Electronics 2022. He is author or co-author of more than 400 journal articles, and has been elected member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2023.


Industry Initiatives:

  • Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)

  • ST Microelectronics

  • Paragraf

  • Minviro


Academic R&D Landscape:

  • eFutures EPSRC Network: "UK R&D Mapping Report"

  • REACT UKRI Green Economy Centre: "Sustainable and Circular Semiconductors"

  • REWIRE IKC: "Next-Generation Power semiconductors"

  • CHIMES IKC: "Heterogenous Integration and Sustainability"


R&D Semiconductor Fabs:

  • CORNERSTONE (University of Southampton): "Photonics Manufacturing"

  • JWNC (University of Glasgow): "Critical Technologies and Semiconductors"

  • University of Sheffield: UKRI Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub


Roundtable Discussion:

A facilitated roundtable discussion for capturing the attendees views on challenges and opportunities in responsible semiconductors.


Exhibition and Showcase:

Selected advances from the consortium will be on showcase during the ample networking and lunch breaks during the day.




Why attend?

This is your opportunity to have a seat at the table as the UK builds a competitive, sustainable electronics sector:

  • Engage in ‘peer-to-peer’ conversations and gain insights from the industry case studies

  • Connect with the UK’s top researchers

  • Shape and co-create sustainable technology solutions and influence UKRI research priorities

  • Meet with key stakeholders shaping the national agenda


What we'll discuss

The Meeting will be centred on the following areas of sustainable electronics:

  • Semiconductor materials and design – new design strategies for sustainability, and designing for repair and recycling

  • Lifecycle assessment - sustainability reporting and the use of the new Digital Product Passports

  • Electronics in applications – addressing sustainability challenges in real-world electronic applications



If you'd like to attend, please register your interest and we get in touch with you (registration is free):




Event Organisers:

  • Jillian Hughes (TechWorks)

  • Paul Jarvie (CSA Catapult; REACT)

  • Jeff Kettle (University of Glasgow; REACT)

  • Natalia Lukaszewicz (University of Glasgow; REACT)

  • Mahmoud Wagih (University of Glasgow; REACT)


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