Our research programme will be delivered through an internationally competitive team of in-house academics and researchers working in high-quality research infrastructure facilities. Their expertise will lead to enhanced academic and industrial collaboration in fundamental research, thereby creating multi-disciplinary teams that are able to attract £24.6m of additional funding to carry out fundamental frontiers research.
Lecturer
Dr. Adesola S. Ademiloye joined Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZC2E), Swansea University in October 2018. Prior to this, Dr. Ademiloye was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the City University of Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in Civil Engineering with first class honors from Ekiti State University, Nigeria. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Civil Engineering (Computational Mechanics) by the City University of Hong Kong in October 2017. Dr. Ademiloye’s research interest includes structural engineering, computational mechanics, multiscale modeling, biomechanics and numerical methods. His studies have been published in prestigious journals, including Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Applied Mathematical Modelling and Applied Mathematics and Computation, and presented at many leading international conferences.
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Senior Lecturer
Hari is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at Swansea University. He did his undergraduate studies 2004-2008 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, where he also later completed his PhD titled "Blast loading of fibre reinforced polymer composite structures". He worked in the Mechanics of Materials Section and Soft Solids Group 2011-2013 as a postdoc, completing computational and experimental projects related to impact, nonlinear material behaviour and fracture.
His current research interests are focussed on lung mechanics.
Lecturer (SPEC Analytics for Human Centred Data)
I graduated in Medicinal Chemistry and Technology at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2010, and obtained my PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from Cardiff University in 2013, working on the computer-aided design and synthesis of novel potential antiviral agents against HCV. After my PhD studies, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Cardiff University for one year, developing new fluorinated anticancer agents to treat prostate cancer, after which I briefly joined a pharmaceutical company in Rome to work as a synthetic chemist in the development of new drugs. I then moved back to Cardiff University to resume my academic research work on the computer-aided design and synthesis of new potential drugs, and in 2016 I was awarded a Sêr Cymru II Individual Research Fellowship, with which I focussed on the in silico design and synthesis of new antiviral agents. In September 2019, I was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at Swansea University. Since 2016, I am a STEM Ambassador.
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Paolo Bertoncello was appointed Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Swansea University in 2010. Prior to this appointment he spent seven years, as a postdoctoral researcher in several research institutions:
In 2004 he was the recipient of a prestigious and highly competitive Marie Curie Fellowship from the EU Commission, and he moved to the Unwin’s lab at the University of Warwick.
In 2008 he moved to the Forster’s group at Dublin City University through a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant and a DCU Research Fellowship.
In 2003, he received his PhD in Biophysics. PB’s research career has focused on combining functional materials with electrochemistry, and thin films technologies, especially the Langmuir-Blodgett method to fabricate polymeric/metal nanoparticles nanostructures for electrocatalytic energy and sensing applications.
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Personal Professor
Professor Stephen Brown is former Head of the College of Engineering at Swansea University with a PhD in metallurgy (1986, Swansea University) and has spent his career in the computational modelling of materials processing. He became a Professor in Computational Materials Science in 2007.
Apart from UK-centred research projects with various industrial collaborators (e.g. Rolls-Royce, Tata Steel, Airbus/EADS) he has previously worked on a range of EU-funded projects in FP5 (e.g. SmartWeld) and FP6 (e.g. ALCAS) including coordination of 14 active partners in the work-package on computational materials modelling in the FP6 IMPRESS project (project value €40million); graded at the top level by two EU assessors. A recently completed FP7 project (concerning multiscale modelling and characterisation for hydrogen-embrittlement problems) was ‘MultiHy’ and Swansea is also part of the current ‘AMAZE’ FP7 project. Professor Brown is also a member of the Technical Evaluation Panel for the recently created Metallurgy Europe Eureka project.
IMPACT Theme Leader: Next Generation Materials Property Measurement
IMPACT related research: Prosperity partnership in rapid product development
Associate Professor & SMaRT Assistant Chief Executive
Responsible for Employability and Regional Engagement strategies for the College. Represents the College of Engineering on the Swansea Employability Academy (SEA) Management Board, the SEA Strategy Group and the College and University Strategic Partnerships Internal Management Group.
Working in the areas of sustainability, circular economy, government policy, internationalisation of higher education and transnational education.
Research interests include sustainability, circular economy, government policy, internationalisation of higher education and transnational education.
Associate Professor
My research broadly encompasses Energy Materials & Devices, in two main areas:
Photovoltaics
I lead Swansea's "Materials-Hub" as part of the WEFO funded SPARC II project, and as part of the SPECIFIC-IKC (EPSRC EP/N020863/1) and Sêr Solar programs, my research area focuses on solution processed photovoltaic materials and device physics. My PV research group utilizes time & frequency domain techniques such as Intensity Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy (IMVS) or Transient Photovoltage Decay, to characterize carrier transport, recombination and mobility in photovoltaic devices.
Two new projects were started in October 2018. The first will develop ultra-light weight flexible tandem silicon/perovskite solar cells in collaboration with IQE plc. The second (EPSRC EP/R032750/1) is a collaboration between Materials Engineering and Computer Science to develop the next generation of novel perovskite powered IoT devices. I am also very excited to be involved with the SUNRISE GCRF (EP/P032591/1) project with the aim to rapidly accelerate and prove low cost printed PV for use in off grid Indian communities.
Thermoelectrics
I lead SPECIFIC's newest research activity on novel solution processable thermoelectric materials and devices, focusing on organic and hybrid materials. See our latest work in Advanced Materials and Advanced Energy Materials on SnSe thermoelectric generators.
IMPACT Theme Leader: Thin Films and Coatings
Lecturer in Computational Biomedical Engineering
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Senior Lecturer
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Senior Lecturer
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Dr Curtis’ interests involve the development of advanced rheometry for the study of Complex Fluids.
His work on advanced manufacturing and healthcare applications involves techniques for studying fluid microstructural responses to flows under conditions of manufacturing process and clinical relevance.
His rheometric, imaging and molecular dynamics simulation studies of biopolymers have involved combined viscoelastic and spectral analysis of gel network development and have contributed to improved understanding of blood clot evolution.
He is also developing NMR and microrheometric methods for studying flow within soft solids and complex fluids.
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Lecturer
Enthusiast lecturer at Swansea University with the vision of transforming the healthcare diagnostics by coupling microfluidic devices and complex flow properties. This ambitious result is currently explored through:
IMPACT related research: Deterministic encapsulation of particles and cells through viscoelastic ordering in microfluidic devices
Associate Professor
Dr Ben Evans is an Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering and sits on the design team for the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project with responsibilities for aerodynamic modelling.
Dr Evans's research interests range from computational shape optimisation and high speed aerodynamic modelling to molecular gas dynamics simulation and has worked with companies including Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Reaction Engines. He has interests in engineering public engagement and engineering education.
EPSRC Manufacturing Research Fellow
Dr Llion Marc Evans holds an EPSRC Manufacturing Research Fellowship (2018-2023) at the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, College of Engineering, Swansea University. His main research interests are image-based modelling using the finite element method (IBFEM) and its application in high-value manufacturing (HVM).
IMPACT related research: Inline virtual qualification from 3D X-ray imaging for high-value manufacturing
Associate Professor
Dr Cinzia Giannetti is a Senior Lecturer at College of Engineering Swansea University. Her expertise includes smart manufacturing and sensors technologies, with emphasis on knowledge and information management, data analytics and machine learning techniques to support decision making, through the use of sensors and large-scale databases.
IMPACT related research:
CArapace Slate Modular rOofing System (CASMOS)
PARSER: Parking and AiR pollution SEnsoRs for Smart Cities
Transfer Learning for Robust, Resilient and Transferable Cyber Manufacturing Systems
Professor
Prof. Antonio J. Gil graduated as Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos from the University of Granada (Spain) in June 1999 (ranked 1st nationally) after having spent one academic year (1998-1999) in the University of California Davis fully funded by a prestigious California scholarship programme. After a two-year Certificate of Advanced Studies (MSc) in the field of Computational Mechanics, he moved to Swansea University where he completed his PhD in the field of computational analysis of nonlinear structural membranes in January 2005 (winner of the UK Association of Computational Mechanics best PhD paper 2004).
Having been awarded the National 1st Prize by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2000, he has since received a number of further research prizes both as Principal Investigator and PhD supervisor, including the prestigious UK Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2011 and the ECCOMAS 2016 Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz award for his contributions as a young investigator in the field of computational mechanics.
Associate Professor
A Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). My overall research interest lies in the field Robotics and Automation, Micro and Nano fabrication, 3D printing and novel Condition Monitoring Techniques. I currently have 54 peer reviewed publications and have a H-Index of 11.
Dr Yuzheng Guo is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at Swansea University.
Associate Professor
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IMPACT related research: Stochastic nonlinear aeroelastic models subject to unsteady loads
Lecturer
Research interests involve using computational methods to solve structural engineering problems, with an emphasis on correlating numerical trends to observable micromechanical phenomenon.
Completed a PhD in finite element analysis (FEA) of creep in nickel and titanium alloys in 2007, followed by post-doctoral research at the Rolls-Royce UTC in Structural Materials at Swansea University. This research focused on developing numerical methods for predicting creep and fatigue in aeroengine applications.
Personal Professor
Professor Hassan MBE FREng PhD DSc FICE CEng FLSW research interest is in computational methods for the solution of problems in engineering analysis and design. His main research areas are:
Unstructured Mesh Generation
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Electromagnetics
Parallel Processing
IMPACT related research: FNR-The Development of Experimentally Validated Numerical Design Tools for Ideal Solar Selective Absorbers
Virtual Reality Research Officer
Senior Lecturer
My research interests lie in the wide and interdisciplinary areas of soft polymeric and active functional materials from experiments to computational modelling. I have been active in the areas of biological tissue modelling and polymeric material characterizations. Recently I am interested in responsive gels (e.g. hydrogels, ferrogels) and self-healing soft materials. I have obtained research grants from industry for energy harvesting using electro-active polymers from Ocean Waves in the Wales Coast.
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IMPACT related research: ASEM-DOU India Fellowship Programme
Dr Spencer Jeffs MEng (Hons) PhD CEng MIMMM PGCHE FHEA is an academic based in the Institute of Structural Materials as part of the Materials Research Centre.
Dr Jeffs' research interests align predominantly to the fundamental characterisation of materials for gas turbine applications, including titanium alloys, nickel base superalloys, advanced high strength steels and ceramic matrix composites material systems investigating relationships between processing, microstructure and properties. Research is conducted employing a range of advanced experimental, analysis and computational techniques including mechanical and miniaturised testing, electron microscopy and X-ray CT alongside close collaboration with industrial and academic partners.
Teaching across both the aerospace and mechanical engineering portfolios, as well as being the admission tutor for aerospace, Dr Jeffs is Chartered Engineer and recognised as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy along with a postgraduate certificate in teaching in higher education.
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Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor with a background in semiconductor electronic materials (silicon, silicon carbide, gallium oxide and gallium nitride) for power electronics. Funded projects from Horizon 2020, Innovate UK, and directly from industry have been acquired with a total research income to date of over £1M. Experienced at publishing in leading journals and conferences (over 80 journal publications). A high degree of industrial collaboration has been acquired through industrially-led and sponsored research programmes.
My belief in research-led teaching (including in-school outreach activity) has led me to bring to the lecture theatre an innovative approach through utilising optimal visualisation techniques. Having completed a recognised lecturing qualification, I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lecturer
My research interests lie in the broad area of Linear and Nonlinear Structural Dynamics and Control. Aeroelasticity (and the control of aeroelastic systems), in particular, has been my most recent area of research. In this area, I study the dynamic behaviour of aeroelastic systems, and research linear and nonlinear control methods (e.g. Feedback linearisation, Pole-placement). I am also interested in the study of the dynamics of non-smooth nonlinear systems (structural and aeroelastic) and their control.
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Dr. Richard Johnston is an Associate Professor in the Materials Research Centre, Swansea University, a 2013 British Science Association Media Fellow (based at Nature), and a 2015 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow.
Embracing a multidisciplinary approach, Richard's research has taken him from artificial intelligence in manufacturing, through gas turbine materials (abradables, nickel superalloys, ceramic matrix composites), and on to X-ray microtomography. He leads the X-ray Imaging group at Swansea, and chairs the Swansea University Research Forum (SURF) Executive Group. He is also Co-Director of the Materials Academy and sits on the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining Education Committee, in addition to devising the #ResearchAsArt Awards and PI of the outreach and engagement programme Materials: Live.
Dr Jason Jones is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and leads the SwanSim Initiative.
Dr Jones’s research interests fall mainly under the umbrella of computational simulation and range from the use of advanced web technologies through to High Performance Computing (HPC), High Performance Visualisation (HPV) and mesh generation.
Lecturer in Polymers and Composites
I am a Lecturer in Polymers and Composites within the College of Engineering. In addition to teaching across the range of Engineering programmes at the University of Swansea, I am also engaged in range of research activities and projects.
My research interests are primarily in the areas of long-term lifetime behaviour of polymers and polymer-based composites, Nanocomposites, and 3D printing of composites. Most of this research is industrially-linked with companies across the UK.
Current research areas include the development of:
- Graphene toughened carbon fibre/epoxy composites
- Novel graphene/polymer nanocomposites
- Novel 3D printed composites
Professor
Dr Nicholas Lavery is Director of the Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1), and the lead academic of the Swansea Additive Manufacturing Research (SAMR) group.
Dr Lavery's research interests lie broadly in the use of material property measurement, computational modelling and experimental studies to develop novel industrial manufacturing processes and materials, with applications to engineering products in aerospace, medical, automotive and energy production.
IMPACT Theme Leader: Future Manufacturing Technologies
After receiving my BSc and MSc degrees in 2002 from Tsinghua University, China, I moved to Swansea, Wales, to take up a research fellow post at Swansea University while doing my PhD research in Computational Engineering. I have been working in Swansea University since then and am currently a Chair Professor in Computational Engineering. My research work (http://engweb.swan.ac.uk/~cfli/) centres largely on Computational Engineering and Physics-based Data Mining, Energy, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Heterogeneous Materials. Many of my research works are in close collaboration with industries, especially the infrastructure and construction sectors including ARUP Ltd., Costain Ltd., Bauer Ltd. and Soletanche Bachy Ltd. etc. Besides the academic work at Swansea University, I serve as the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Computations (https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0264-4401).
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Dr Ji Li is currently a Lecturer in River Engineering in Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, Swansea University. Before joining Swansea in 2019, he was a Research Fellow in Wuhan University, China. He obtained PhD degree from Heriot-Watt University, UK, where he also worked as a Research Associate following the completion of PhD study. He also received a PhD degree of Hydraulics and River Engineering in Wuhan University.
Ji’s main research interest is mathematical modelling of shallow water-sediment flows in surface water environments, including fluvial river flows and geophysical mass flows such as debris flows and landslides. His research vision is to develop a physically-enhanced high-performance numerical model to simulate and understand the hydro-sediment-morphodynamic processes, and apply it to mitigate risks due to flooding, landslides and debris flows.
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Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Chair
Professor Margadonna has recently been appointed as a Chair in Materials Engineering.
Her work has been inspired by the simple realisation that major advances in modern technology are always driven by the availability of materials which possess a number of functionalities and are able to operate at different length scales, in harsh conditions such as extremes of pressures/temperature and highly corrosive environments. The performance requirements for materials are increasingly demanding and necessitate a truly multidisciplinary research.
Senior Lecturer in Electrochemical Energy Storage
Specialties: Synthesis, characterization and structure-property correlation of energy storage materials; with focus on Li-ion and Fluoride ion batteries.
Personal Chair
Perumal Nithiarasu (PN) is Professor and Director of Research at College of Engineering, Swansea University. He is also a Deputy Head of College of Engineering and currently also holds a position of Dean Academic Leadership (Research Impact). Previously, PN served as the Head of Zienkewicz Centre for Computational Engineering for 5 years. PN has also served in several SU committees including HR Research Working Group as a chair leading the HR excellence award submission and REF14 impact and appeal committees as a member. PN has proposed and implemented a public lecture named after the father of the finite element method, Professor O.C. Zienkiewicz. This lecture strengthened Swansea's relationship with many societies including LSW, SWIEET, RAEng and IACM.
Swansea Uni Nanomaterials; Nanjing Uni Physics; Inanovate; Irresistible Materials; Grove Nanomaterials; Adv in Phys X
IMPACT related research: Super-Abundant Size-Selected Cluster Technology for Nanoscale Design of Functional Materials
Associate Professor
My research interests are in the following areas:
Cardiovascular modelling and subject-specific analysis, medical device design and optimisation, reduced order and probabilistic modelling, forward and inverse uncertainty propagation, surrogate modelling, information theory, and inverse problems.
IMPACT related research: Potts shunt for suprasystemic pulmonary artery hypertension: decision-making and design
Associate Professor
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Associate Professor
Specialist Subjects: Micro manufacturing, micro electrical discharge machining, polymer processing, length scale integration, lean manufacture, process design, surface activation, biomimetics
My main research focus lies within the field of Micro and Nano Technology (MNT).
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Academic awards:
ESPRC’s (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) International Collaboration Sabbatical award
Collaboration opportunity with Professor Anne Carpenter of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Amnis Corporation, Cancer Research UK and the Centre for Nanohealth in Swansea.
IMPACT Theme Leader: Data Centric Engineering
Lecturer
Dr Elizabeth Sackett is a lecturer in the Materials Research Centre at Swansea University, currently working in close collaboration with Tata Steel UK on various aspects of steel metallurgy and processing. Her teaching portfolio covers topics on a wide range of advanced metallic systems.
Elizabeth gained her PhD in Material Science and Engineering on dwell fatigue of Ti685, which was sponsored by the US Air Force. She has over 10 years experience in postgraduate and commercial research on a wide range of alloys and composites and has published in a range of international journals. Elizabeth has collaborated with over 30 leading international companies, contributing to project development and supervision. Currently, the focus of her research explores mechanical properties of materials in relation to nanoindentation including residual stress and strain mapping. Elizabeth is the Athena SWAN lead for College of Engineering, Swansea University.
Associate Professor
My research focuses on the surprising variety of flow patterns we discover in multiphase, granular, and complex fluid flows. We study how large-scale flow patterns emerge from a combination of the microstructure of the fluid, and the viscous, capillary, frictional and gravitational forces acting on the system. Our results provide explanations for naturally occurring phenomena in geophysical flows, and helps optimise engineered processes such as soil remediation, oil and gas recovery, and carbond dioxide cature and storage.
Read more on the Complex Flow Lab webpage.
IMPACT related research: Frictional flow patterns shaped by viscous and capillary forces (FriicFlow)
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Personal Chair
Professor Johann Sienz received the Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) in Mechanical Engineering with specialisation in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany, in 1989, the BEng (Hons) from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, in 1989, the MSc in 1990 and the Ph.D. in 1994, both from Swansea University, UK.
Deputy Executive Dean, Faculity of Science & Engineering
Director of IMPACT and ASTUTE
IMPACT related research:
Modular Unitary Drives for High Power Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
Senior Lecturer in Medical Engineering
Dr Sanjiv Sharma received his PhD on the development of analytical methods for determination of certain pharmaceuticals and their metabolites using miniaturised separation system in 2001. His PhD supervised by Dr Sunil Kumar Sanghi, was a part of an Indo- European Community joint research project on miniaturised separation system in collaboration with University of Amsterdam. He then performed postdoctoral research in the areas of high throughput sequencing, clinical proteomics and miniaturised analytical systems in France and Germany from 2001-2004. In 2004, he was awarded a Chevening Technology Fellowship to work with Professor Andrew deMello on microfluidic microreaction systems in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.
Senior Lecturer
My interests include rotordynamics, particularly of systems undergoing rotor stator contact, and methods to model and characterise nonlinear structural vibration both analytically and experimentally. I am also very interested in morphing aircraft, in particular morphing of helicopter rotor blades through the H2020 project Shape Adaptive Blades for Rotorcraft Efficiency (SABRE).
James Sullivan's research is focused on the links between microstructure and the corrosion behaviour of materials with a particular interest in zinc alloys for galvanic protection.
James has developed a novel time lapse imaging technique that can visualise corrosion mechanisms and preferential phase attack of microstructures in-situ under electrolyte films. The work was presented at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference on aqueous corrosion in 2012 and is published in Corrosion Science.
James is a co-director of the Materials Academy at Swansea University that provides flexible and accessible training to standard entry students and industrial employees from work based learning through to doctorate level and this has been achieved with a grant income of £15million over the past four years.
The Materials Academy provides training and research to a large base of industry partners including Tata Steel, BASF, European Space Agency, The Royal Mint, NSG Pilkington and many others.
The Materials Academy hosts the COATED2 EPSRC Centre for doctoral training in industrial functional coatings that will train 40 new doctorate researchers from 2015. This is a prestigious scheme and is one of only two CDTs hosted in Wales.
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Associate Professor at Swansea University
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
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My research area is thin film printed PV with a specialism in developing new technologies for the manufacture of novel photovoltaics including deposition and curing processes and their characterisation using electrochemistry, photochemistry or optoelectronic methods.
Dr Wing Chung Tsoi is a Lecturer. His research interests are mainly focus on solution-process photovoltaic/solar cells, including organic solar cells, and perovskite solar cells.
He is particularly interested in understanding the structure-property-performance relationship of the photovoltaic/solar cells, in order to understand the fundamentals and to improve the performance, particularly the stability of the photovoltaic/solar cells.
His expertise is on developing/applying advanced (nano-) characterization methods to probe the structures/morphology of the photovoltaic thin films, and correlate it to the properties and performances. His particularly expertise is on advanced Raman spectroscopy and functional atomic force microscopy (AFM) as well as photovoltaic cells for indoor, power generation window and aerospace applications.
Dr Wing Chung Tsoi obtained his higher diploma in Applied Physics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He then obtained BSc in Physics with Lasers and Photonics from The University of Hull. He obtained his PhD in Physics (Title of Thesis: Polymerisable Liquid Crystals for Organic Photovoltaics) under supervision of Prof. Mary O'Neill at The University of Hull in 2006.
During his PhD, he discovered novel light absorbing, charge transporting liquid crystals can be used as PV materials and to fine tune its nano-morphology to significantly improve the efficiency of the PV. [1] He then took a postdoctoral position under Prof. David Lidzey at The University of Sheffield, working on organic semiconducting materials for novel ultrafast optical switching. During the period, he discovered that an interesting and special phase, so called "beta-phase" can be formed with fluorene oligomers. [2]
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Lecturer in Corrosion
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Lecturer in Computational AI Engineering
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Horizon 2020 MSCA Individual Fellow
Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering | Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering
Previous IMPACT researchers:
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Future Manufacturing Research Institute (FMRI) - Head of Nanoenergy Lab at Swansea University
Experienced Lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Lecturing, Event Management, Academic Writing, Data Analysis, Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy and Nanomaterials. Strong information technology professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Chemistry - Spectroelectrochemistry of Energy Storage Devices from University of Liverpool.
Cris Arnold is Deputy Head of College and Director of Learning and Teaching for the College of Engineering, with oversight of all of the undergraduate and taught masters programmes within Engineering. In addition to this role, he is actively engaged with teaching at all levels, especially in the areas of polymer and composite materials, but also extending to structural analysis and environmental issues.
He has a long experience of working collaboratively with industry, on joint research projects, technology transfer and industry-embedded education. This includes supervision of over 40 doctorate and masters students and almost 100 publications with an H index of 17. He leads the Degree Apprenticeship schemes in Engineering, delivered in partnership between Swansea University and Coleg Cambria.
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Chair in Aerospace Structures
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IMPACT Theme Leader: Advanced Structural Mechanics
IMPACT related research: Digital twins for improved dynamic design
Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Dr Manolesos is a Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering and he is the Swansea University Wind Tunnel manager. His research interests include separated flows and separation control, drag reduction and flatback airfoils, wind turbine aerodynamics and aeroelasticity, aeroacoustics and atmospheric boundary layer flows.
TATA Steel Chair
Deputy Director SUSTAIN EPSRC Future Steel Manufacturing Research Hub
Co-Director of Advanced Imaging of Materials (AIM) Facility
I am currently a TATA Steel sponsored Professor having previously worked as a post-doctoral research officer in the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Materials specialising in material characterisation and mechanical metallurgy. I have a long history of interfacing with industry and significant experience of managing industry / academic research collaborations and relationships.
I am Deputy Director of the EPSRC funded SUSTAIN Future Steel Manufacturing Hub which aims to deliver cutting edge science and the engineering research required to create carbon neutral, resource-efficient UK steel supply chains. I established the Advanced Imaging of Materials facility and played a leading role in the establishment of the Steel and Metals Institute at Swansea University to which TATA Steel have already committed 30 industrial researchers and £9m of research equipment.
My current research spans a broad range of topics supporting innovation in the steel industry from product development to process innovation and optimisation of steel making and extractive metallurgy methods. This includes optimisation of ferrous raw material processing, characterisation of refractory materials and rapid alloy development.
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Senior Lecturer
I joined the College of Engineering at Swansea University after six years of work in the power industry with the aim to use my experience to solve the challenges related to the integration of power electronics devices in the transmission and distribution systems.
The research topics I am working on include:
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