Electronics

Dr Mohammed Al-Rawhani received a BSc in in Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering (Amman, 2004), an MSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Glasgow, 2007) and a PhD in Electronic Integration Design & Implementation for Biomedical Applications in (Glasgow, 2012).   For one year he worked as a field engineer where he was part of a team responsible for installations of microwave communication systems in the remote area of the Republic of Yemen.   He is a Research Associate in the Microsystems Technology Group at the University of Glasgow.  His research interests include design, integration, assembly, characterisation and evaluation of optical and biochemical diagnostic applications. His research focuses on the design of ASIC chips using high/low voltage CMOS such as that provided by AMS and Taiwan Semi-Conductors. The ASIC chips integrate optical and biochemical sensor arrays with other necessary conditioning circuits.

received his PhD (Nottingham, 2014) during which time he worked on electrical and optical characteristics of III-V and II-VI semiconductor materials.  He worked as Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter from 2013-2015. At present he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Engineering, where his current project is on SB based Mid RImaging.  During his career he has published more than 15 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

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Dr James Beeley obtained a BEng and PhD  from the University of Glasgow (1997 & 2004), both in Electronic & Electrical Engineering.   Research areas include parallel computer interconnection network hardware, electronic olfaction, minaturised CMSO sensors and associated eletronics and medical diagnostic devices.

Dr Boon Chong Cheah received a BEng in Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Leeds, 2010) and an MSc in Nanotechnology & Advanced Electronic Devices (Leeds, 2011).  He passed his PhD viva and is currently working on his corrections to obtain a PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He previously worked at Intel Corporation in 2012 and is currently a Research Assistant in the Microsystems Technology Group at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include microsystems and electrochemical sensors, sensor systems, microfabrication, surface functionalisation, microfluidics and CMOS electronics.  He is currently working towards integrating enzyme/antibody immobilisation techniques with microfluidics/plasmonics on a CMOS chip for the Multicorder Project.

Dr Ivonne Escorcia Carranza received a BEng from John Brown University (USA, 2007) and an MSc  from the University of Arkansa (USA, 2010) both in Electrical Engineering. She is currently working towards a PhD in Electronic & Electrical Engineering resulting in her “Metamaterial based CMOS Terahertz Focal Plane Array” thesis.  Currently a Research Assistant in the Microsystems Technology group in the School of Engineering, her research interests include mixed-signal IC design, thermal sensors and Terahertz imaging. She is a member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Honour Society.

Dr Louiz Gouvea received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.  He worked as a digital VLSI Engineer, Network Engineer and Anologue VLSI Engineer.  His research interests include a triple spectrum image sensor and integrated control for 780mm lasers for the Quantum Technology Hub Project.   Other research areas include low-power analogue VLSI and bio-inspired electronic systems.

Dr James Grant received a BSc and PhD  in Physics from the University of Glasgow (2002 & 2006).  His PhD investigated wide band gap semiconductors such as GaN, SiC and diamond as radiation hard detector materials.   In January 2007 he transferred to the School of Engineering where is is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Microsystems Technology Group.   His research interests include nanofabrication, metamaterial devices, plasmonics, terahertz systems, sensors and imaging and CMOS electronics.

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Dr Mitchell Kenney received his MSc in Physics & Nanotechnology (Birmingham, 2011) continuing with his PhD with Professor Shuang Zhang in the Metamaterials Research Group, University of Birmingham.  He has completed all his thesis requirements and is currently awaiting his PhD viva.  Previous research interests include the investigation of plasmonic, metallic and dielectric metasurfaces for manipulating the wavefront of light, with a key interest in Pancharatnam-Berry phase.  He is currently a Research Assistant in the School of Engineering where his background experience in metasurfaces aims to be of benefit to the Supercamera and Quantum Hub Projects.

Dr Chunxiao Hu received a BSc in Automation (China, 2008), his MSc in Microsystem Technology (Southampton, 2009) and his PhD in Microfluidic devices for nematodes (Southampton, 2013).  Following completion of his PhD, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, working on Nanowire/Nanoribbon ISFET for biosensing. He is currently a Research Associate in the Microsystems Technology Group at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include lab on chip, microfluidics, C. elegans, platform integration, Nanowire/Nanoribbon, surface functionalization and biosensing. His research now mainly focuses on using CMOS based chemical sensors for multiple detection.

Dr Ata Khalid received a PhD in Electronic Device Engineering (London, 2000) following which he worked for several years at Kings College in the development of MMIC design and fabrication and the development of HBTs and HEMTs.   In 2004 he moved to the School of Engineering as Research Associate to develop solid state THz radiation source technology based on planar Gunn diodes. He is an expert in semiconductor device physics and nanofabrication.  His research interests include mm-wave and THz materials and device characterisation.  A member of IEEE and Institute of Physics (IOP), he is a regular reviewer of IEEE TED and Electron Device Letters.

Dr Vincenzo Pusino received an MSc in Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Italy, 2008) and a PhD in Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Glasgow 2014).  During his PhD he studied novel techniques to deliver high-frequency semiconductor mode-locked lasers for use in optical telecommunications.  He is currently a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow where is is working on advanced focal plane arrays for imaging in the medium infrared spectral region.   His research interests include imaging and sensing, micro and nanofabrication, integrated lasers and non-linear optics.

received a BEng in Avionics (Pakistan, 2004), an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship funded his Masters in Photonics (2008), with his first year spent at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and his second year at the University of St Andrews.  He subsequently worked at the Technical University of Denmark, returning to St Andrews in 2010 to commence his PhD studies (2013).   His PhD research involved developing electrically pumped silicon nanolight source for applications in onchip data processing. He currently works as a Research Associate in the School of Engineering.  His research interests include developing novel integrated photonic devices for sensing and telecommunication applications. He is currently working on the Multicorder project where he specialises on integrating nanophotonic devices with CMOS detector arrays for applications in bio-sensing.

Dr Srinivas Velugotla received a BTech in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (India, 2004), his MSc in Nanotechnology & Microfabrication (Wales, 2007) and his PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Edinburgh, 2013).  He worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Wales, working on dip pen nanolithography using AFM.   Following completion of his PhD he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Edinburgh for 6 months developing dielectrophoresis based device for continuous separation of cells. He is currently a Research Assistant in the Microsystems Technology Group at the University of Glasgow. His research interest include biochemical sensors, integration, microfluidics and dielectrophoresis. His research mainly focuses on developing the integration of microfluidics into a biochemical sensor and developing CMOS based chemical sensors.