Dr Ricky Metaxas completed a PhD at Imperial College London in 1968. He has worked for the Atomic Energy Authority, the Electricity Council Research Centre (now EA Technology) and Eastern Electricity plc. From 1982 to 2002 he was on an ESI (Electricity Supply Industry) secondment to the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he founded and led the Electricity Utilization Group (EUG). He co-authored Industrial Microwave Heating, which has become a key text in the field. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and co-founded the Association of Microwave Power in Europe for Research and Education (AMPERE).
His research interests focus on the use of high frequencies for industrial processing, specifically the use of radio frequencies and microwaves for heating, drying, waste reprocessing and tempering of foodstuffs. He has also investigated computational electromagnetics for processes involving electroheat, physics or arc/spark instigation and numerical modelling or coronas leading to arc formation. He has coauthored over 100 publications in areas such as electroheat, electricity utilization, modeling of industrial heating systems, and electromagnetics.
AC Metaxas and RJ Meredith, Industrial Microwave Heating, Peter Peregrinus, IEE, 1983 (reprinted 1988 and 1993).
AC Metaxas, Foundations of Electroheat – A Unified Approach, J. Wiley and Sons, 1996.
'Frequency Domain vs Time Domain Finite Element Methods for Calculation of the Fields in Multimode Cavities’, IEEE Transactions of Magnetics, 33, No.2, pp. 1468-1471, March 1997, co-authored with D C Dibben.
'Numerical modelling of atmospheric pressure gas discharges leading to plasma production', J of Physics D, Applied Physics, Vol 38, pp R303, 2005, co-authored with A Papadakis, GE Georghiou and R Morrow.
