Dr Mary Garvey
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Toxicology, Microbiology, Veterinary Science
Dr Umar Khan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Thin Films, Polymer Composites, Graphene, Materials Science, and Nanoparticles
Zainab Saleem
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Obstacle Detection and Collision Avoidance for Autonomous Cobot Operation in Dynamic Environments
Nishanth Thomas
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Development of Functional Nanomaterials for
Photo-Fenton Applications.
Arghadyuti Banerjee
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Tracking dynamic time-dependent groundwater vulnerability using satellite scatterometer observations and land-use stochastic models
Hamail Ayaz
PEM PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Deep Learning for early diagnosis and classification of Tumors from radiographic images
Amit Goswami
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: ‘Use of surface coatings in phase-change enhancement’
Keerthi M. Nair
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Design and fabrication of novel electrode materials for electro Fenton degradation of Contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs)
Ryan Walden
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: 2D Nanomaterial composites for Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Parnia Forouzandeh
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: 2D Nanomaterials for efficient asymmetric supercapacitors.
Fearghus Downes
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Mathematical Modelling of the Bovine Reproductive Cycle
Albert Weinert
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Sensorisation of Injection Mould tooling created by Additive Manufacturing
Ms. Nimra Munir
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: in-line monitoring of Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) process to predict the final properties of polymer-drug matrix
Ms. Mandana Kariminejad
PhD Researcher
Research Topic: Wireless sensing & sensorization of injection moulding for prediction and control of part quality
Dr Marion McAfee
Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Sensing, Modelling, Optimisation and control Systems particularly in Manufacturing
Dr Douglas Marques
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Polymers Processing, Biomaterials Science, Medical Devices & Tissue Engineering
Mohamed Awad
PhD Researcher
Research topic:
“Minimising the makespan in batch production facilities through scheduling optimisation models”
Dr Muhammad Mahmood Ali
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Photonics Electronics Laser Welding
Polymers and their Composites
Dr Waqas Saleem
Assistant Lecturer - Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Principal Investigator
Solid mechanics, precision machining and simulation, mechanical design optimisations
Dr Vignesh Kumaravel
Senior Research Fellow
Principal Investigator
Development of Nano-materials for clean energy, CO2 conversion,
hydrophobic and
antimicrobial applications
Ms. Priyanka Ganguly
PhD Scholar
Nanotechnology and Bioengineering
Research Group
Ternary chalcogenides and its composites with titanium dioxide for photocatalytic applications.
Dr Ioannis Manolakis
Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry
Principal Investigator
Chemistry Polymers Materials Composites
Usaid Azhar
PhD Researcher
Research Topic:
Bio-inspired supramolecular polymers
for multifunctional coatings
Jamie Grant
PhD Researcher
“Development of Nano-fibrous Chitosan and Graphene Composites for Bio-Medical Applications”.
Mohammadreza Kadivar
PhD Researcher
How Additive Manufacturing can be harnessed
to make the next generation of
high-performance thermal cooling systems.
Kris O’Dowd
PhD Researcher
"Photo-Fenton process for the removal of antimicrobial-resistant organisms from water"
Dr Saritha Unnikrishnan
Principal Investigator / Researcher
“Computer Vision and Machine Learning with a
focus on pharmaceutical
manufacturing applications.”
Ms. Foram Dave
PhD Researcher
Laser Transmission Welding of
Semi-crystalline Polymers and its Composites
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Prof Suresh Pillai
Boyle Higgins Gold Medal Award