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Impact and Innovation Manager
Keith Dingwall
Impact and Innovation Manager
- keith.dingwall@glasgow.ac.uk
- +44 (0)7931 247595
Keith is the Impact and Innovation Manager in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow, overseeing the delivery of the University's EPSRC and STFC IAAs. Keith has extensive experience in knowledge exchange within the higher education sector, and works to promote wider and more in depth engagement with the impact agenda across the University. Through his work on IAA he supports external collaboration, commercialisation, staff mobility and culture change within the College of Science and Engineering.
Whilst specialising in the physical sciences, in particular nanotechnology, advanced materials, electronics, and other key enabling technologies, Keith oversees all IAA projects, enabling the exploitation of research outcomes from University's EPSRC and STFC research portfolio, with the key objective of shortening the time to impact.
Keith also has extensive experience in the delivery and assessment of large European projects. He has worked as an external expert for the European Commission having undertaken project review, innovation review and proposal evaluation in the FP7 and Horizon 2020 programmes.
Keith is also a key partner in successful delivery of the cross-institutional IAA Impact Festival alongside IAA Managers from the Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, and Strathclyde. This annual event recognises the on-going need to inform and train early career researchers about the impact agenda, ways in which impact can be achieved and the importance of collaboration both with academic colleagues and external stakeholders to maximise impact.
Quantum and Nanotechnology
Steffan Gwyn
IAA KE Associate for Quantum and Nanotechnology
- steffan.gwyn@glasgow.ac.uk
- +44 (0)7730412388
Steffan has a degree in Physics from the University of Manchester and a PhD through the Centre for Doctoral Training in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage where he studied at the University of Glasgow. Now, he is an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Knowledge Exchange Officer in the College of Science and Engineering with a focus on Quantum and Nanotechnology in a variety of applications. He is driven to support collaborative projects and helps support external partnerships and commercialisation within CoSE.
Steffan has experience in engagement in quantum technologies, space, and healthcare, particularly in technologies enabled by optical and photonic systems and nanotechnology. Through the IAA, Steffan aims to assist in developing impactful research through the EPSRC and STFC IAAs. Steffan is experienced in liaising with companies and can be a great asset in securing industrial support for your research.
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Healthcare Technologies/Medical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology
Caroline Hogarth
IAA KE Associate for Healthcare Technologies/Medical Engineering, and Industrial Biotechnology
Caroline has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Veterinary Diagnostics. After nine years as a student at University of Glasgow, Caroline worked in Surrey for a Biotechnology company, and then moved into Scientific Publishing working for Reed Elsevier in Amsterdam as a Product Manager for a drug safety database.
Family life then took her to Paris and South Korea for a few years, before returning to work at University of Glasgow in 2018, as a KE Associate for Healthcare Technologies and Industrial Biotechnology.
Her current role supports the growth of high quality, collaborative research across these fields through the Impact Acceleration Account and industrial engagement and support.
Sustainability and Net Zero
David Hughes
IAA KE Associate for Sustainability and Net Zero
David’s varied background in Engineering, the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Sales puts him in an excellent position to deliver support and network links throughout the University and beyond.
His passion for Sustainability has led him to embed himself into the efforts being made to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.
The holistic cross-disciplinary approach sustainable solutions require means an appreciation of the depth of knowledge available across all areas in the University must be at the fore and this, and a highly creative approach to problem solving, is what David brings, and encourages in others.
Highly approachable, he welcomes input and ideas from any source and will lend his energy to worthwhile causes whenever he can.
Communications, Sensing and Imaging
Muhammad Ali Jamshed
IAA KE Associate for Communications, Sensing and Imaging
Ali earned a PhD degree in Electronics Engineering from the 5G/6G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK, in 2021. He is endorsed by Royal Academy of Engineering under the exceptional talent category of 2021. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He was nominated for a Departmental Prize for Excellence in Research at the University of Surrey in 2019. He served briefly as a Wireless Research Engineer at Briteyellow Ltd, UK, and then moved to the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, before being promoted to KE Associate for Next Generation Communication Systems. He has also served as Wireless Technical Consultant at Briteyellow.
Ali has contributed to three patents and authored/co-authored ten book chapters, edited one book and more than 50 technical articles in leading journals and at peer-reviewed conferences.
His main research interests include EMF exposure reduction, low SAR antennas for mobile handsets, machine learning for wireless communication, Satellite Communication, Backscatter communication, and wireless sensor networks. He is also serving as an Associate Editor of IET Networks and founder of the workshop on Sustainable IoT for 6G and Beyond. Moreover, he served as a Reviewer, TPC, and Session Chair at many well-known conferences, such as ICC, WCNC, VTC, GlobeCom, and other scientific workshops.
Ali has over seven years of applied research and industrial experience working in the wireless communication domain. Through the IAA, Ali aims to assist in developing impactful research through the EPSRC and STFC IAAs. Ali is experienced in liaising with companies and can be a great asset in securing industrial support for your research.