Profile of the Director,

Martin Rouen

After graduating from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Martin joined the Freshwater Biological Association at its Windermere Laboratory in 1984. Organisational changes saw the Association’s scientific programme assumed first by the Institute of Freshwater Ecology and latterly the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He headed the Instrumentation Section throughout these changes from 1985 until leaving in 2004. During his 20 year career, he designed a number of innovative instruments in support of the Laboratory’s scientific programme.  He was technical co-ordinator for several major European Union funded projects and undertook the electronic design of several generations of automated water quality monitoring station deployed in lakes and rivers.  Some twenty such stations are in operation in the UK and across Europe.

Martin became self-employed in 2005 and launched Lakeland Instrumentation Ltd in 2007.  The company has carried out work for several organisations in the UK, Germany, Ireland and Finland, but has ambitions to expand its customer base more widely in Europe.