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The PEM Centre Team
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 IT Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems
Primary Contacts
PEM Technology Gateway Staff
Dr Russell Macpherson
PEM Technology Gateway Manager
Area of Expertise: Manufacturing, Productivity, AI, Research and Development, Innovation & New Product Introduction
Clíodhna Carroll
PEM Technology Gateway
Business Development Lead
Email: carroll.cliodhna@itsligo.ie
Mark McLoughlin
PEM Technology Gateway Research & Development Engineer
Area of Expertise: Precision Engineering & Design
Email: mcloughlin.mark@itsligo.ie
PEM Research Centre and Academic Staff
Dr. David Tormey
PEM Academic Director
Area of Expertise: Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Dr. Richard Sherlock
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Laser Spectroscopy
Dr. Gerard McGranaghan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Heat Transfer, Manufacturing Engineering
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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. Konrad Mulrennan
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Machine learning & Data analytics
Aoife Hegarty
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Observation Technologies
Dr. Marion McAfee
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Process Monitoring, Modelling and Control
Prof. Suresh Pillai
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Nano Material and Technologies
Dr. Ioannis Manolakis
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Polymers & Composites/Coatings, Bio-inspired Materials
Dr. Waqas Saleem
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Solid mechanics, precision machining and simulation, mechanical design optimisation
Dr. Vignesh Kumavarel
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise:
Nanomaterials for energy and environment
Dr. Muhammad Mahmood Ali
PEM Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Area of Expertise: Photonic Engineering, Electronic Engineering & Laser Welding and Manufacturing
Dr. John Donovan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Statistical Process Modelling
Prof. Leo Creedon
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling
Brian Coll
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Lean Six Sigma, Quality & Operational Excellence
Dr. Saritha Unnikrishnan
PEM Researcher/Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computing & Electronics
Area of Expertise: Computational Modelling
Dr. Sarah Hehir
PEM Researcher/Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Life Sciences
Area of Expertise: Organic Synthesis/ Polymer Chemistry
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. Kieran Hughes
PEM Researcher
Mathematical Modelling Research Group
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling; Mathematical Programming; and Computational Algebra
PhD Students
Foram Dave
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Laser Transmission Welding & Polymer Characterisation
Mohamad Awad
PEM PhD Student Researcher.
Area of Expertise: Process Engineering, Production Scheduling and Optimisation, Manufacturing Engineering
Usaid Azhar
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Materials Synthesis & Characterisation (Bio-Ceramics, Bio-Inspired Polymers, Composites)
Nimra Munir
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Polymer and drug processing and characterisation, machine learning and data analysis.
Nishanth Thomas
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Nanomaterial synthesis and its sustainable applications
Arghadyuti Banerjee
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.
Priyanka Ganguly
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterial synthesis and characterisations,
Photocatalysis
Kris O'Dowd
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Forensic investigation and analysis with advanced oxidation process's (AOP's)
Mohammadreza Kadivar
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Additive manufacture enhanced heat transfer surfaces
Hamail Ayaz
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Image Processing, Computer Vision, AI, Biomedical Imaging, Data analysis and, Machine and Deep learning.
Parnia Fourouzandeh
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Areas of Expertise: 2D material, Nanomaterial, Material science, Energy storage, Supercapacitor, Energy conversion, Perovskite solar cell, 2D material characterization.
Amit Goswami
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Surfaces for enhanced heat transfer, advanced manufacturing technology, Coating technology.
Jamie Grant
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Forensic Investigation and Analysis
Albert Weinert
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Sensorisation of 3D printed injection moulding tooling
Mandana Kariminejad
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Wireless sensing & sensorization of injection molding for prediction and control of part quality
Fearghus Downes
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Mathematical Modelling
Snehamol Mathew
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of expertise: Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications
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