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Engineering Discipline:
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Biography:
After completing and access course with the Open University as a mature student I studied for my BSc(Hons) in Physics with Astrophysics at Nottingham Trent University. I continued my education and went on the gain a PhD Entitled “Voltage Programmable Liquid Optical Interfaces". After a short period as a fixed term lecturer I moved to an Industrial placement in the Hewlett Packard Displays Research Laboratory where I investigated the use of electro wetting in combination with liquid crystal displays. I was awarded an anniversary research fellowship at Northumbria University in 2013 and began research into surfaces and wetting with a particular interest in low contact angle hysteresis surfaces. In 2016 I became a senior lecturer at the same institution and in 2018 became the head of subject for Electrical Engineering. In July 2020 I became a Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and moved my research into the Institute of Multiscale Thermofluids.
Academic Qualifications:
- BSc (Hons) Physics with Astrophysics
- PhD "Voltage Programmable Liquid Optical Interfaces
Professional Qualifications and Memberships:
- Member of Istitute of Physics (IOP)
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Acadamy
- Member of the EPSRC College of Reviewers
- Commitee meber if IOP Pringting and Graphical Sciences Group
Teaching:
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Research Interests:
Experimental investigations into:
- Condensation and evaporation on low contact angle hysteresis surfaces
- Droplet interactions on Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) including droplet-droplet Interactions and droplet-surface Interactions
- Passive droplet actuation on surfaces including passive actuation via Gradient SLIPS surfaces and movement in response to macrostructures built into the surface.
- Active droplet actuation by confinement wall reconfiguration, Electro-wetting, Dielectrophoresis and dielectrowetting.
