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:
macpherson.russell@atu.ie
Clíodhna Carroll
PEM Technology Gateway Business Development Lead
Email:
carroll.cliodhna@atu.ie
Mark Mcloughlin
PEM Technology Gateway Research & Development Engineer
Area of Expertise: Precision Engineering & Design
Email:
mcloughlin.mark@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
Prof 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
