Meet the Team
what it is. We work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across ATU Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems
Meet the Team
what it is. We work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across ATU Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems
THE TEAM
The PEM Centre Team have a strong history of conducting applied research. We have completed over one hundred industry projects, securing over €12 million in competitive research funding (over €1 million of which was contributed directly from industry) and filed four patent applications (two granted and two pending). Equally our academic track record is exemplary with two hundred peer reviewed publications and supervision of Masters and PhD students.
In addition to the staff listed below, we work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across ATU Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems.
Primary Contacts

Dr Russell Macpherson
PEM Technology Gateway Manager
Area of Expertise: Manufacturing, Productivity, AI, Research and Development, Innovation & New Product Introduction
Email:
russell.macpherson@atu.ie

Clíodhna Carroll
PEM Technology Gateway Business Development Lead
Email:
cliodhna.carroll@atu.ie

Mark Mcloughlin
PEM Technology Gateway Research & Development Engineer
Area of Expertise: Precision Engineering & Design
Email:
mark.mcloughlin@atu.ie
PEM Research Centre and Academic Staff

Dr David Tormey
PEM Academic Director
Area of Expertise: Design and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr Marion McAfee
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Process Monitoring, Modelling and Control

Dr John Donovan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Statistical Process Modelling

Dr Richard Sherlock
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Laser Spectroscopy

Prof Suresh Pillai
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Nano Material and Technologies

Dr Leo Creedon
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling

Dr Gerard McGranaghan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise:Heat Transfer, Manufacturing Engineering

Dr Ioannis Manolakis
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Polymers & Composites/Coatings, Bio-inspired Materials

Brian Coll
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Lean Six Sigma, Quality & Operational Excellence

Dr Xavier Velay
PEM Principal investigator/HoD of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering
Area of Expertise: Design for Industry, Engineering Management, Industry 4.0, and the Circular Economy

Dr Waqas Saleem
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Solid mechanics, precision machining and simulation, mechanical design optimisation

Dr Saritha Unnikrishnan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Computational Modelling

Dr Umar Khan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Thin Films, Polymer Composites, Graphene, Materials Science, and Nanoparticles

Dr Mary Garvey
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Toxicology, Microbiology & Veterinary Science

Dr Sarah Hehir
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Organic Synthesis/ Polymer Chemistry

Dr Ailish Breen
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Drug & Gene Delivery, Tissue Engineering and Medical Devices

Dr Konrad Mulrennan
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Machine learning & Data analytics

Dr Douglas Marques
PEM Researcher / Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Mechatronic Engineering
Area of Expertise: Polymers Processing, Biomaterials Science, Medical Devices & Tissue Engineering

Dr Muhammad Mahmood Ali
Assistant Lecturer in Department of Computing and Electronic Engineering.
Area of Expertise: Photonic Engineering, Electronic Engineering & Laser Welding and Manufacturing

Dr Aoife Hegarty
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Observation Technologies

Dr Kieran Hughes
PEM Researcher - Mathematical Modelling Research Group
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling; Mathematical Programming; and Computational Algebra

Christopher O'Hara
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Design for manufacture, Project Engineering
PhD STUDENTS

Foram Dave
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Laser Transmission Welding and Polymer Characterisation

Jamie Grant
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Forensic Investigation and Analysis

Mohamad Awad
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Process Engineering, Production Scheduling and Optimisation, Manufacturing Engineering

Albert Weinert
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Sensorisation of 3D printed injection moulding tooling

Usaid Azhar
PEM Technology Gateway Business Development Lead
Area of Expertise: Materials Synthesis & Characterisation (Bio-Ceramics, Bio-Inspired Polymers, Composites)

Mohammadreza Kadivar
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Additive manufacture enhanced heat transfer surfaces

Mandana Kariminejad
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Wireless sensing & sensorization of injection molding for prediction and control of part quality

Nimra Munir
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Polymer and drug processing and characterisation, machine learning and data analysis

Hamail Ayaz
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Image Processing, Computer Vision, AI, Biomedical Imaging, Data analysis and, Machine and Deep learnings

Fearghus Downes
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling

Nishanth Thomas
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterial synthesis and its sustainable applications)

Parnia Fourouzandeh
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Additive manufacture enhanced heat transfer surfaces

Snehamol Mathew
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications

Arghadyuti Banerjee
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.

Amit Goswami
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Surfaces for enhanced heat transfer, advanced manufacturing technology, Coating technology

Ryan Walden
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Analytical chemistry, 2D nanomaterial composites

Keerthi M. Nair
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterials synthesis and its environmental and energy applications

Zainab Saleem
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Computer Vision (Image Processing with Machine Learning and Deep Learning) and Robot Operating System