Professor Frank Peters was born in Victoria, B.C. Canada. He completed a B.Eng. in engineering physics at the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1988 and a Ph.D. from McMaster University in 1991. From 1991-1993, he was a Research Engineer in the ECE Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara working on Vertical Cavity Lasers and optical modulators. Between 1993 until 2001 he worked as a Research Scientist at W. L. Gore and Associates and Agilent Technologies developing and integrating photonic devices into datacom and telecom applications. From 2001-2005 Frank worked at Infinera in Sunnyvale California in the development of high-speed photonic integrated circuits and then moved to Ireland in 2005. He is a professor in the School of Physics at University College Cork, and the head of the Integrated Photonics group at the Tyndall National Institute. He has authored more than 300 papers and holds over 50 patents all concerned with thermal, optical, electrical and systems issues relating to the design and use of photonic devices and high speed photonic integrated circuits. His primary interests are in using interesting physics to solve photonics problems.