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Smart Electronic Materials and Systems
Smart Electronic Materials and Systems

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Abiodun Komolafe PhD, FHEA, MIEEE

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Electronic textiles,
  • Flexible and printed electronics,
  • Reliability engineering of flexible electronic systems

Dr Alex Weddell MEng, PhD, FHEA, MIEEE

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Energy Harvesting
  • Internet of Things
  • Energy Management/Storage

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Dimitra Georgiadou PhD FHEA MRSC

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • green manufacturing of flexible nanoelectronic devices
  • photonic synapses for neuromorphic computing
  • solution-processed non-toxic materials

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Ibrahim Sari

Associate Director of Business Dev in ES

Research interests

  • Semiconductors
  • System Integration
  • Advanced Packaging

Dr Irfan Ullah

Research Fellow

Dr Jessica Pereira PhD, MRSC

Res Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) EPS

Research interests

  • Functional materials for electronic applications
  • Conductive metal nano/microstructures
  • Metal Inks

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Jize Yan

Professor

Research interests

  • Meta-lenses and vortex-beam based sensors; Distributed fibre optic sensors; MEMS/Optomechanical/Optical sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Energy harvesters; Cleanroom fabrication
  • Metrology and Monitoring for Infrastructure, Battery, Space and Quantum
  • Physics-Informed Neural Networks and AI Inverse Design for Sensing Device and System

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr John Tudor

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Smart fabrics/e-textiles
  • MEMS and microfabrication
  • Sensors and Transducers

Professor Kai Yang

Professor

Research interests

  • Electronic textile materials and manufacturing
  • Wearable medical devices (e.g. stroke rehabilitation, pain management)
  • Digital healthcare

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Katie Court

Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise Manager