Having spent more than 40 years working in optical communications, Michael Robertson is one of the world’s longest-serving experts in the field of fibre-optics. To mark his retirement, he talks to Anita Chandran about cross-disciplinary research, the breakthroughs he made and the good and bad sides of fibre optics in the UK
21 Mar 2023
Anita Chandran is a science writer based in Munich, Germany, and editor of Tamarind, a literary magazine focused on the intersections of science and art. Twitter @anitamchandran