​EDUCATION: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (2008)
                     Ph.D., ‘Mechanical Isolation of Miniature Resonators and Stress Relieving Packages’ (1997)
                     BEng (Hons) Mechancical Engineering (1992)

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​​EMPLOYMENT: August 2011 - Professor, ECS, University of Southampton

​                         March 2007 – July 2011 Present Reader, ECS, University of Southampton

​                         October 2006 – February 2007 Lecturer, ECS, University of Southampton

​                         October 2001 – September 2006 EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, ECS, University of Southampton

​                         October 2000 – present  Director, D4 Technology Ltd

​                         January 1997 – September 2001 Research Fellow, ECS, University of Southampton

                         March 1996 -  December 1996 Consultant to USITT, University of Southampton

​                         January 1993 – February 1996 Research Assistant, USITT, University of Southampton

                         September 1990 – July 1991 Quality Assurance Engineer, IBM UK Ltd​            
                                          

​​RESEARCH FUNDING:

Dates                         Role     Funding Body  Title and Southampton Budget
1/1/2012 – 31/8/2014      PI       EU FP7              Low Cost and low Energy GNSS-based WIreless Tag for asset Tracking and monitoring (CEWITT)

                                                                       €128,032
1/10/2010- 30/9/2015     PI        EPSRC             Leadership Fellowship: Energy Harvesting Materials for Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textiles

                                                                       £1,225,196
1/9/2010-31/8/2013        CI        EU FP7             Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Network for HVAC System Energy Improvement - Towards

                                                                       Integral BUilding CONnectivity (TIBUCON) £338,000
1/1/2010 - 31/12/2012     CI        EU FP7             Patient Centric Approach for an Integrated, Adaptive, Context Aware Remote Diagnosis and

                                                                       Management of Cardiovascular Diseases (BRAVEHEALTH) €567,680
1/1/2010 - 31/12/2012     PI        EPSRC              Energy Harvesting Network £137,790
1/10/2009 - 30/9/2012   CI        EPSRC              Next Generation Energy-Harvesting Electronics - holistic  approach £885,339
1/10/2008 - 30/9/2012   PI        EU FP7             Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles

                                                                       (MICROFLEX) €1,510,378, PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR
1/1/2009 - 31/12/2011     CI        EU FP7             Development of technology building blocks for structural health monitoring sensing devices in

                                                                       aeronautics (TRIADE) €418,292
1/1/2007 - 30/6/2010      PI       EPSRC              Otoacoustic Emission Based Biometric Systems £356,648
1/11/2006 - 31/10/2009   CI       EPSRC              Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting £459,629
1/6/2006 - 31/05/2009   CI       EPSRC              Platform Grant: New directions for intelligent sensors £416,869
1/10/2004 - 29/2/2008   PI       CASE award    High temperature piezoelectric materials for thick-film operation of resonant sensors  £45,255

1/01/2004 - 29/6/2007    PI       EU FP6             Vibration Energy Harvesting (VIBES) €629,874, PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR
1/10/2001 - 30/9/2006    PI       EPSRC             Advanced Fellowship: Thick-film piezoelectrics for MEMS: optimisation and applications £212,054
1/1/2004 - 30/6/2006      CI      EPSRC              Thick-film sensors for prosthetic hands £197,408
1/06/2002 - 30/5/2005   CI       EPSRC             Resonant Microsensor Modules for Measurement of Physical Quantities (REMISE) £179,844
29/5/2001 -28/11/2005    CI       EPSRC             Micromachined Ultrasonic Filter With Thick-Filmed Piezoelectric Drive For Microfluidic

                                                                        Applications £249,042
1/3/1999 -30/9/2002   Co Author  EPSRC         Self-Powered Microsystems £203,559
19/1/98 -18/7/2000      Co Author  EPSRC         ROPA: Combined thick-film / micromachined sensor structures £95,718
01/06/96 -30/05/99        PI                               ABB Kent Taylor Micromachined silicon DETF resonator for differential pressure sensing

                                                                        applications £325,101

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PUBLICATIONS: 78 refereed journal papers and letters, 81 refereed conference papers
                         4 review papers, 3 books, 6 chapters within books, 8 patents plus numerous other general publications
                         Average of 15.5 citations per item with an h-index of 19 (source: ISI Web of Knowledge)​

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TEACHING: ELEC3014: Electromechanical Design
                   ELEC6011: Introduction to MEMS (Module Leader)
                   Project Supervision: MSc Projects, MEng Group Project
                   Currently supervising 14 PhD students, completed 8
                   Mean lecturer rating for 09/10 academic year = 4.5 out of 5​

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ADMIN: MSc MEMS Admissions Tutor
              MSc MEMS Course Leader
              Member of the International Program Committee for Eurosensors XXV.
              Member of the ISA100 Study Group – Power Sources
              Member of the Technical Program Committee for Power MEMS 2009
              Member of the IET Instrumentation and NDT Technical Advisory Panel​

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ENTERPRISE: Founder member of PMG Perpetuum Ltd
                      Director D4 Technology Ltd

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​​INVITED TALKS: Energy Harvesting Network and the Holistic Project, ZEROPOWER Workshop, Glasgow 2012​​​​​​​​​​​

                          MICROFLEX Project: Microtechnology in Smart Fabrics, CIMTEC 2012, Italy, 2012

                          Kinetic Energy Harvesting, Guardian Angels Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2011

                          Screen printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting, Piezo 2011, Sestriere, Italy, 2011
                          Energy Harvesting Research at Southampton: Improving Bandwidth, Printed Piezoelectrics and Wind Power,
                                         Energy Harvesting Workshop, EISEE, Paris, 2010
                          Screen-printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting, Printed Electronics Europe, 2010
                          Strategies for increasing the bandwidth of vibration energy harvesters, Energy Harvesting & Storage
                          Europe Conference 26th-27th, May 2010, Munich, Germany 2010
                          Screen-printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting, Printed Electronics Europe, 2009
                          Energy Scavenging Research at the University of Southampton, Sensors KTN event, 2008
                          Kinetic energy harvesting, ACT Workshop on Innovative Concepts, ESA-ESTEC, 2008
                          Energy Scavenging Research at the University of Southampton, 3rd e-Cubes Workshop, 2008
                          Vibration Energy Harvesting: Background and State of the Art. Electronics KTN event, 2008
                          Spinning out self powered sensor systems.  Intersect Faraday Partnership event, 2005
                          Kinetic energy harvesting for wireless sensor systems. IEE Wheatstone Measurement Event, 2002

 

OTHER: Won the 2006 EuroAsia IC Industry award for R & D Initiative of the year with Innos Ltd

             Won best paper award at the 1st Int. Conf on Biometric Authentication 2004

             Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist
             Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET Membership No. 49732288)
             Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
             Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP) (ID No. 580547)
             Member of the IOP Instrumentation, Science and Technology Group (ISAT)
             Member of the local organising committee for MME 06
             External PhD examiner (3 exams)
             Session chair at DTIP06, PowerMEMS 2009, Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe Conference  2010, Piezo 2011, Eurosensors 2011
             Co-organised a tutorial session ‘Energy Harvesting Systems: Principles, Modelling and Performance Optimisation’ at DATE09
             Reviewed proposals for the EPSRC, EC, U.S. SBIR programme, Science Foundation Ireland, ISTC, Technology Foundation
                         STW (Netherlands), British Council
             Referee for numerous journals including: Elsevier Sensors and Actuators, IOP J. Micromechanics and Microengineering, IEEE
                         Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE JMEMS,

                         Elsevier Smart Materials and Structures, IEE Electronics Letters, Materials Chemistry and Physics.
             Book reviews for Cambridge University Press, Canopus Books, Artech House, McGraw-Hill, Institute of Physics Publishing​