Academic staff

Prof Majid Safari received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2011. He is currently a Professor of optical and wireless communications and the Deputy Head of Institute for Imaging, Data, and Communications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 papers. His main research interests include the application of optics, information theory, signal processing in optical, wireless, and quantum communications. Some of his current research works include designing 6G Optical wireless networks as part of the EPSRC program grant TOWS, developing single-photon avalanche diode based receivers for classical communication, and the design of novel communication schemes for nonlinear long-haul fibre-optic channels. Prof Safari has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters. He was the recipient of Mitacs Fellowship, Canada and prestigious grants from Leverhulme Trust and EPSRC, UK. He was the recipient of Best Paper Awards from IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 and IEEE ICC 2023.

• 2011: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada
• 2005: MSc in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology
• 2003: BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Tehran

Course Organiser:

* Digital Communication 4: 2013-present

* Digital Communications Fundamentals (MSc): 2013-present

* Digital System Design 2: 2015-present

Other Courses:

* Analogue Mixed Signal Laboratory 3: 2018-2020

* Engineering Mathematics 2A: 2014-2016

* Electrical Engineering 1: 2017-2019

http://www.skper.org/

Dr Podilchak received the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2005, the M.A.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2008 and 2013, respectively, where he was an Assistant Professor, from 2013 to 2015.

He then joined Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh U.K., in 2015, as an Assistant Professor,and became an Associate Professor in 2017.

His research was supported by the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Research Fellowship.

He currently serves as a Lecturer with the European School of Antennas and a Senior Lecturer with The University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering.

He is a registered professional engineer (P.Eng.). He has had industrial experience as a computer programmer and designed 24 and 77GHz automotive radar systems with Samsung and Magna Electronics.

Recent industry experience also includes the design of high frequency surfacewave radar systems, professional software design, and implementation for measurements in anechoic chambers with the Canadian Department, National Defence and the SLOWPOKE Nuclear Reactor Facility.

He has also designed new compact multiple-input–multiple-output(MIMO) antennas for wideband military communications and highly compact circularly polarized antennas for microsatellites with COMDEV International, and new wireless power transmission and millimeter-wave automotive radar systems with Samsung.

His research interests include surface waves, leaky-wave antennas, metasurfaces, UW Bantennas, phased arrays, and CMOS integrated circuits.

Dr.Podilchak was a recipient of many best paper awards and scholarships; most notably research fellowships from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

He has received the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Ph.D. degree from Queen’s University.

He also received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and four Young Scientist Awards from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

In 2011 and 2013, he received the Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, the Best Paper Prize for Antenna Design from the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for his work on CubeSat antennas, in 2012, and the European Microwave Prize for his research on surface waves and leaky-wave antennas, in 2016.

He was bestowed a Visiting Professorship Award from Sapienza University of Rome, in 2017 and 2019. He was also the Founder and the First Chairman of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Joint SocietyJoint Chapter of the IEEE Kingston Section in Canada as well as the IEEE U.K. and Ireland Section in Scotland. In recognition of these services, he has received the Outstanding Volunteer Award from the IEEE, in 2015.

He is an Associate Editor of the journal IET Electronic Letters. He was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, in 2014.

• BASc degree in Engineering Science, Uversity of Toronto, ON, Canada, 2005
• MASc Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2008
• PhD Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, 2013

Awards and Scholarship

• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Research Fellowship
• IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Research Fellowship
• Outstanding Dissertation Award for the PhD degree from Queen’s University
• Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Four Young Scientist Awards from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
• Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2011 and 2013
• Best Paper Prize for Antenna Design from the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for his work on CubeSat antennas, 2012
• European Microwave Prize for his research on surface waves and leaky-wave antennas, 2016
• Visiting Professorship Award from Sapienza University of Rome, 2017 and 2019
• Outstanding Volunteer Award from the IEEE, 2015

• Registered Professional Engineer, PEng
• Founder and the First Chairman of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
• Founder and the First Chairman of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
• Outstanding Volunteer Award from the IEEE, 2015
• Associate Editor of the journal IET Electronic Letters
• Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propogation, 2014

• Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, 2013-2015
• Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015-2017
• Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2017-2019
• Lecturer, European School of Antennas present
• Senior Lecturer in Radio Frequency, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh

Wide ranging industrial experience including:

• Computer programmer - designed 24GHz and 77GHz automotive radar systems with Samsung and Magna Electronics
• Design of high frequency surface wave radar systems, professional software design, and implementation for measurements in anechoic chambers with the Canadian Department, National Defence and the SLOWPOKE Nuclear Reactor Facility
• Designed new compact multiple-input–multiple-output(MIMO) antennas for wideband military communications and highly compact circularly polarized antennas for microsatellites with COMDEV International
• Designed new wireless power transmission and millimeter-wave automotive radar systems with Samsung

• Bachelor of Engineering (Auckland), 1st Class Honours
• Doctor of Philosophy (Sydney)

• Mechanics and behaviour of particulate solid
• Handling and characterisation of granular solids and powders
• Silo pressures and solids flow
• Finite element and discrete element modelling

• Ph.D. "Violent wave action at seawalls and breakwaters", 2006
• BSc (hons) Astrophysics, University of Edinburgh, 1987
• MSc Astronomical Technology, University of Edinburgh, 1988

• Co-Manager, EPSRC Coastal Structures Network
• Full member, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)

• Wave - structure interaction
• Wave hydrodynamics
• Flow measurement - Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

• Associate Schools Liaison Officer (with SRA)

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• Ph.D. in Polymer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997
• B.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992

• Chartered Engineer and Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, CEng MIMechE
• Fellow, Institute of Physics, FInstP
• Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, FIMMM
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy, FHEA

Current:

• Course Organiser of Industrial/European Placement 4 (MEng)
• Course Organiser of Professional Issues for Mechanical Engineers 3 (BEng/MEng)
• Final Year Mechanical Engineering Individual Project Supervision (BEng/MEng)
• Industrial/European Placement Supervision (MEng)
• Digital Design and Manufacture (DDM) M.Sc. Project Supervision

Major Past Teaching:

• Surface Engineering and Coatings 5
• Polymers and Composite Materials 4
• Polymer Science and Engineering 5
• Dynamics 4
• Advanced Materials 5
• Nanotechnology 5
• Thermodynamics 2
• Mechanical Engineering 2nd Year Laboratory; 12 experiments in dynamics, thermodynamics, fluids, and structures

• Materials Science and Engineering
• Surfaces and Interfaces
• Composites and Nanocomposites
• Recycling and Sustainability
• Adhesion and Tribology
• Mechanics of Materials
• Thin Films and Coatings
• Materials for Biomedical Applications
• Materials for Energy
• Materials for sensors

• Polymers and Nanoparticles on Surfaces and Interfaces
• Self Assembly
• Elastomers and gels
• Soft Coatings
• Micro/nanomechanics
• Wettability of Surfaces, Wetting, Dewetting
• Droplets, bubbles, and liquid foams
• Additive manufacturing
• Electrospinning and fibrous materials
• Surface Metrology and Characterisation
• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

• Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering
• Link to Google Scholar
• Link to Linkedin

Professor Win Rampen was a founder and Managing Director of Artemis Intelligent Power which has pioneered the development of the ultra-efficient and controllable Digital Displacement ® hydraulic technology. Since its creation in 1994, Win has overseen the growth of Artemis to 50 employees.

Win grew up on a farm near Toronto before training as an engineer. After graduation, he came to the UK in 1978 to work with Professor Stephen Salter and his wave power team at the University of Edinburgh. It was there that he first encountered Robert Clerk and his radical hydraulic machines - which were intended for the Salter Duck's power take-off system.

After a few years working as a lecturer in Canada, during the 1980s, Win returned to the University to continue working on the advanced hydraulic machines needed not only for waves but, also, other forms of renewable energy. Win led the project at the University and developed the early prototypes. That work led to a doctorate in 1993 and the creation of Artemis in 1994. Artemis grew organically until it was acquired by Mitsubishi in 2010.

Win holds the Chair of Energy Storage at the University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the RSA, the IMechE and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• 2014 Joseph Bramah Medal
• 2015 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award

• PhD (Sheffield)

• Ice and snow mechanics
• Winter sports engineering (skiing, curling)
• Casting, forming, heat treatment, HIPping
• Avalanches, ice friction
• Processing/microstructure/property relationships in metals
• High temperature alloys, intermetallics and coatings, metal foams

Prof Khellil Sefiane's Laboratory web pages

Professor Khellil Sefiane, PhD, HDR, FRSC and FInstP is a Professor and chair of Thermo-Physical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/), Scotland, United Kingdom. He was the Head of the research Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT), 2018-2024 and Head of the Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP) from 2012-2015 at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Sefiane is the Vice-Chair of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, https://www.uknhtc.org/. Professor Sefiane is the UK delegate on the Scientific Council of the Intenational Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, https://www.ichmt.org/. He also represents the UK on the European Thermal Committee, EUROTHERM, http://www.eurothermcommittee.eu/. He was associate editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Elsevier (2017-2024) and has been associate editor for the International Journal of Multiphase Flows and the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

He held numerous honorary appointments in international institutions including an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada (2008-2014), Visiting Professor at Kyushu University, Japan (2015) and WPI -World Premier International Professor at the International Centre for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER) at Kyushu in Japan (2015-2019), honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in China (2022-2025), Extraordinary Professor at Pretoria University, South Africa (2019) and visiting Professor at Universite Paris-Saclay, France (2020 and 2025). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) and holds an ExxonMobil fellowship and a Global Research Award, both awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London. Professor Sefiane has been research active for the last 28 years in various areas related to multiphase flows, heat transfer, microfluidics, interfacial phenomena and phase change. He has published more than a 250 journal papers in international journals and was co-editor of the textbook Drying of Complex Fluid Drops: Fundamentals and Applications, published by the Royal society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-790-9. He has been recipient of the prestigious Institute of Physics (IoP) award (2009), the Global Research Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London (2011) and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award in 2014 and the David R. Kenning Award in 2024. Professor Sefiane is member of numerous international scientific committees of experts in heat transfer and multiphase flows (ICHMT, EUROTHERM, Chair of the Nusselt-Reynolds, Nu-Re Prize and chair of the David B.R. Kenning award committee) and member of the international Board of the Nukiyama Memorial Award (NMA) awarded by the Heat Transfer Society of Japan (HTSJ). Prof. Sefiane taught undergraduate and graduate students at universities in UK, France, Canada, Japan and China. He has been recipient of research grants from the UK research Council (EPSRC), the British Royal Society (RS), the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry.

• M.Sc., PhD in Chemical Engineering, habil. HDR in Engineering
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics, FInsP, 2012, UK.
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC, 2011, UK.
• ExxonMobil Fellow, awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, 2000, UK.
• Vice-chair of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, https://www.uknhtc.org
• Deputy Chair of the Nusselt-Reynolds (Nu-Re) international prize, 2018-2024
• Chair of the Nusselt-Reynolds (Nu-Re) international prize, 2024-2027
• UK representative on the EUROTHERM European committee, http://www.eurothermcommittee.eu/
• UK representative on the Scientific Council of the Intenational Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, https://www.ichmt.org/
• UK Editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (IJHMT) (2017-2024), Elsevier
• World Premier International (WPI) Professor, International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I²CNER), https://i2cner.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/, 2015-2022, Kyushu University, Japan.
• Corresponding member of the European Academy of Sciences Arts and Literature.
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 2008-2014, Canada.
• Honorary Professor, Kyushu University, 2015, Japan.
• Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2011, Japan.
• Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2022-2025, China.
• Visinting Professor, Univeriste Paris-Saclay, Paris, 2020 and 2024, France.
• Visiting Professor at Université Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens (2008), Université de Valenciennes (2009, 2011), École Normale Supérieure- Cachan (2014, 2015), École nationale supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM), 2023, France.
• Visiting Professor, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 2015-2017, UK.
• Extraordinary Professor, Pretoria University, 2020, South Africa.
• Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019, China.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Multiphase Flows, Elsevier, 2015-2016.
• Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 2014-2015
• Global research award, Royal Academy of Engineering, London, 2011. UK.
• Chair of the David B.R. Kenning award committee, UK, https://www.uknhtc.org/david-kenning-award
• Member of the Board of the Nukiyama Memorial Award (NMA) awarded by the Heat Transfer Society of Japan (HTSJ). 2024-2026.
• Laboratory and Group web page

• Separation Processes 5, 4th and 5th year.
• Work Visits (Chemistry and Processes 2), 2nd year.
• Chemical Engineering Design 4, 4th year.

• Interfacial processes and capillary phenomena
• Multiphase flows and microscale heat transfer
• Wetting and phase change phenomena
• Microfluidics and thermal management of microsystems