Donal Donat Conor Bradley CBE FRS FInstP FIET FRSA is the Vice President for Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
His postgraduate research was undertaken in the Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and he received a PhD in 1987.
Upon returning to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, after a year spent in Japan studying the nonlinear optical properties of poly(arylenevinylene) polymers, he played a central role in the February 1989 discovery of conjugated polymer electroluminescence, suggesting the experiment that led to Jeremy Henley Burroughes' first observation of light emission.
[12] Bradley is an Institute for Scientific Information highly cited author[13] in both Materials Science and Physics with 563 papers published to date.
In the New Year Honours 2010 Bradley was appointed as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen for services to science.
[citation needed] In February 2011 he delivered the Distinguished Lecture in Physics on "Molecular Control for Conjugated Polymer Optics and Photonics" at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Bradley has been ranked since 2002 by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 1% most highly cited physicists in the world for research published over the past two decades.