Susan Parker
Susan Parker BA MIET MAES is an Electronics Instrumentation Technician at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, U.K (joined 2008) supporting aS/fS fast-pulse laser-science and plasma-physics. Her design work includes sensitive acquisition front-end and motor-controllers using Arduino-platform hardware, compact pulse-power high-voltage-generators, and trigger-systems; and is a named-author on a number of research-papers.
She received the B.A. degree in textile science technology and design from Bradford University, West Yorkshire, U.K., in 1979. Her dissertation was on computer-interfacing for jacquard-circular-knitting machines based on her third-year industrial-placement work-experience.
From 1980 to 1985, she was an Electronics Design Engineer with Chelsea Instruments, London, U.K., where she had previously apprenticed during the school-holidays from the age of 13 having an already established interest in electronics; building mostly tube-based projects including a five-tube superheterodyne-receiver.
She then worked as an independent electronics-design and circuit-board-layout engineer for a couple of decades; working on numerous projects including video-wall display-systems, graphics-engines, an airborne multi-spectral scanner acquisition-system, aircraft-radio selective-call units, desktop and underwater spectrometers/fluorometers, computer-keyboards for people with repetitive-strain-injury or other disabilities; and invented a bubble-displacement angle-sensor method for game-console hand-controllers which she implemented for the original PlayStation with optics, electronics, and circuit-board design for high-volume-manufacture.
From 1992 onwards she has been developing audio-designs under her Audiophonics moniker, including her marble sphere-speakers, pre and power amplification with her transformer and mosfet-follower signal-path-topology, various other speaker designs mostly using Jordan wide-band metal-cone drivers, vinyl-preamps, digital-audio DACs, and her own vinyl pickup-cartridges.
In addition to listening to a wide range of music on vinyl her other interests include model-engineering, English-longbow & Olympic-recurve archery, and astrophotography.