Shane Cloude received his BSc degree from the University of Dundee, Scotland in 1981 and his PhD from the University of Birmingham, England in 1987. He then worked as a radar scientist at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Great Malvern, England. Following this he held teaching and research posts at the University of Dundee, the University of York in England and the University of Nantes in France before taking on his present role in 1996. He is now director and senior scientist with AEL Consultants, undertaking contract research on a range of problems associated with radar and electromagnetic scattering.
Dr Cloude is a Fellow of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society in Germany and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. His main research interests lie in polarisation effects in electromagnetic scattering and their applications in radar and optical remote sensing. He is the author of 1 book on time domain antennas, 10 contributed book chapters, 20 journal publications and over 75 international conference and workshop papers.