David A. Cardwell, FREng, is a British superconducting engineer.^[1] He is a professor of superconducting engineering, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning at the University of Cambridge, former head of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, former co-director of the KACST-Cambridge Research Centre and a fellow of Fitzwilliam College.^[2] In 2012, Cardwell was elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.^[3]

Cardwell studied at the University of Warwick (BSc 1983, PhD 1987).^[2] He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.^[2]

• DSc, Warwick University, 2015
• ScD, University of Cambridge, 2014
• MA, University of Cambridge, 1995
• PhD, Warwick University, 1987
• BSc, Warwick University, 1983^[4]

Professor Cardwell's research interests include the processing, modelling and characterisation of bulk superconductors for high-field engineering applications. Materials of particular interest include high-temperature superconductors within the (RE)BCO family and MgB2.^{[clarification needed][5]} He has authored or co-authored more than 370 published papers.^[6]

• Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Strategy & Planning)
• Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong
• Adjunct Professor at the Shanghai University of Science and Technology
• Member of the Hong Kong Government University Grants Committee
• Treasurer of the European Society for Applied Superconductivity
• Member of the Advisory Board of Superconductor Science and Technology

• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• Fellow of the IET^[2]

• The Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) Arch T. Colwell Merit Award, 2008^[7]
• PASREG prize for excellence in the processing of bulk superconductors, 2001^[8]

• University of Cambridge
• High-temperature superconductivity