Academic staff

• 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

https://vasileioskoutsos.wixsite.com/softmaterials

• 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

• Polymers, Complex Fluids, and Soft Condensed Matter
• Surfaces and Interfaces
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Composites and Nanocomposites
• Recycling and Sustainability
• Adhesion and Tribology
• Mechanics of Materials
• Thin Films and Coatings
• Materials for Energy
• Materials for Biomedical Applications

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

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

• 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)

• 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

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

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

• Diploma in Project Management - Dublin Business School, 2010
• PhD Biomedical Engineering, University of Limerick, 2009
• BEng Mechanical Engineering, University of Limerick, 2002
• National Certificate Mechanical Engineering, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 1999

• Senior Lecture, August 2018 - Present
• Lecture, January 2018 - July 2018
• Chancellor's Fellow, January 2013 - December 2017
• IRCSET/Marie-Curie Research Fellowship, (Phase 2) National University of Ireland Galway 2012 - 2013
• IRCSET/Marie-Curie Research Fellowship, (Phase 1) Imperial College London 2010 - 2012
• Postdoctoral Researcher - Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Limerick 2009 - 2010
• International collaboration - University of Pittsburgh, USA (3 months) 2005

Dr Shiwei Wang received his Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering (Outstanding Honor) from Zhejiang University, China in 2010 and PhD degree in Microelectronics from University of Edinburgh, UK in 2014. Following his PhD research, he was with SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China as a Research Assistant Professor working on integrated circuits for neural implants. He was with IMEC, Belgium from 2015 to 2020 where his research has led to innovative breakthroughs in high density neural probe and integrated brain machine interface technologies. He was an Associate Professor at University of Southampton from 2020 to 2022, and is now a Reader at the Centre for Electronics Frontiers, University of Edinburgh.

In March 2026, Shiwei took up the role of Director of Centre for Electronics Frontiers. https://cef.eng.ed.ac.uk

• PhD
• BEng

• Senior Member, IEEE
• Fellow, HEA

Analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits

• PhD Biomedical Engineering, University of Durham, 1999
• BSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Durham, 1993
• MSc Bioengineering, University of Strathclyde, 1994

• Member, Optical Society of America
• Member, Society of Applied Spectroscopists
• Fellow of the Society of Biology
• Member, European Society for Biomaterials
• Active member, Orthopaedic Research Society

• Director of the BBSRC Synthetic Biology Network on Standardisation
• US-UK Fulbright Commission, Distinguished Scholars Award, University of California Berkeley, 2003
• EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, 2004-2009
• Royal Academy of Engineering, Global Research Award, University of California Berkeley, 2003