Dean, USask Engineering

Dr. Michael Bradley (PhD) is the dean of the University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Engineering.

Dr. Bradley began his five-year term on July 1, 2024.

He joined the USask Department of Physics and Engineering Physics in 2003 as an assistant professor. He became a full professor in 2017 and department head in 2022.

Dr. Bradley earned an Honours BSc (1992) in applied physics from the University of New Brunswick. He earned his PhD (2000) in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Following his PhD and before joining USask, he spent three years working in the research and development laboratories of Axcelis Technologies, developing new plasma ion implantation systems for silicon chip processing. Dr. Bradley has been a registered professional engineer in Saskatchewan since 2006.

An active researcher, Dr. Bradley focuses on plasma physics, precision electromagnetic measurement and semiconductor materials and device development. When he arrived at USask, he set up a semiconductor plasma processing research lab funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).