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• PhD, National Technical University of Athens
• Post-Graduate Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education, NIE Singapore
• BEng, Tongji University
• MSc, Southeast University

• Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)
• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng, Registered with the Engineering Council)
• Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (M.EASA)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Protective Structures
• Associate Editor, Journal of Structural Engineering - ASCE
• Member of Editorial Boards: International Journal of Impact Engineering; Advances in Structural Engineering; Structural Engineering and Mechanics; Advances in Concrete Construction; etc
• Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 447: Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
• ASCE Technical Committee: Structural Identification of Constructed Systems (past)
• ACI Committee 370: Design for Blast and Impact (past)
• ASCE Technical Committee on Methods of Monitoring
• ASCE/SEI Standards Committee on Seismic Rehabilitation
• Board member, UK Association for Computational Mechanics

• Structures and concrete materials against extreme dynamic loading: earthquake, shock and impact
• Resilience of civil infrastructure; time dependent structural performance and reliability
• Dynamic testing, condition assessment and health monitoring of structures
• Computational modelling of concrete and cementitious composites for complex and high rate loading
• Damage diagnosis, strengthening and retrofitting of structures

• Defence Technology Prize 2006 by the Ministry of Defence, Singapore
• Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2004 by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore

• PhD studentship opportunities in computational modelling of brittle/composite materials for dynamic loading; low-carbon concrete materials and structures; integrated structural health monitoring. Enquiry: yong.Lu@ed.ac.uk.

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• PhD in Signal Processing, University of Edinburgh, January 2010

• Personal Webpage
• Curriculum Vitae

Dr Ricky Carvel is Senior Lecturer in Fire Dynamics in the Edinburgh Fire Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Originally from Edinburgh he studied at St Andrews University, obtaining a BSc (hons) in Chemistry and Physics in 1992 and an MPhil in Chemistry in 1994. Since then he has worked for the University of Aberystwyth, Heriot-Watt University, International Fire Investigators and Consultants and the University of Edinburgh.

He is editor of the ‘Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety’ (2nd Edition, ICE Publishing, 2011) and was associate editor of Fire Safety Journal (2009-2015). He has been working in the field of fire science and tunnel fire phenomena since 1998.

His research work has focussed on the interaction between fires and ventilation (specifically tunnel ventilation systems, crosswinds and, currently, underventilated fires such as in basements and ships' holds). In 2004 he was awarded a PhD from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland) for his thesis “Fire Size in Tunnels”. In addition to fire vs. ventilation research, he has also been involved into research in dust explosions, ignition, material flammability, CFD modelling and fire suppression.

As well as his teaching and research responsibilities at the University, he currently provides fire safety engineering consultancy services to a number of different companies, primarily with regards to tunnel fire safety and fire dynamics. He has authored more than 20 journal papers and more than 40 conference papers.

He was runner up in the 'best course' category at the 2018 EUSA Teaching Awards.

He currently teaches the courses "Fire Science & Fire Dynamics" and "Models for Fire Safety" to undergraduate and MSc students.

Consulting Engineer

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https://edin.ac/3ZnHPqx

• Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class)
• PhD (Electrical Engineering)

• FIEEE
• EURASIP Fellow
• MIEE CEng

• Google Scholar Publications List: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XbQGWCUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
• Edinburgh Research Explorer: https://edin.ac/3ZnHPqx

• M.Eng., M.A., Ph.D.

• Statistical Signal Processing, concerning the utilisation of stochastic nonstationarity in single and multi-channel blind signal separation and deconvolution.

• Institute for Digital Communications (IDCoM)

• Ph.D. Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, 2009
• MEng (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, 2004

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• University research webpage

Dr Welch has a PhD in combustion and over 30 years of experience in fire research and teaching. He worked for a decade at BRE's Fire Research Station, including full-scale fire tests at BRE Cardington, before joining the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in 2004. His research spans a range of topics related to computational simulation of fire and structures and has had involvement as first or second supervisor of around 30 graduated PhD students and served as examiner for over 30 more (including external examiner appointments). His teaching is related to fire safety engineering practice, providing a training in engineering approaches to applied problems, with critique and analysis of relevant regulations, codes and design principles. He was Programme Director for the one-year MSc Structural and Fire Safety Engineering (SAFE) 2008-23 (120+ graduates), and is a management board member for the International Master in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE), since 2010 (300+ graduates). He was Discipline Programme Manager for Civil & Environmental Engineering 1/1/14-30/4/18 & 14/3-14/8/22 and is now Deputy Director of Students in the School of Engineering.

• BA hons Engineering, Cambridge University
• MSc Automotive product engineering, Cranfield University
• PhD (Computational modelling of diesel engine smoke emission), Cranfield University

AIFireE, AIOP (Combustion Physics subgroup), IAFSS newsletter associate editor

Deputy Director of Students, School of Engineering

Management Board, International Master in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE)

Programme Director, Structural & Fire Safety Engineering (SAFE) MSc

Current teaching: Fire Safety Engineering 5/MSc/IMFSE (formely Current Methods in Fire Safety Engineering/Fire Safety Engineering 4) (short-listed for "Outstanding course" via 22/23 EUSA Teaching awards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cslN1EdULWQ) Fire Science Laboratory 5/SAFE/IMFSE, Fire Safety Engineering 3

Previous teaching: Fire Safety Engineering Design Project 5, Fire Safety Engineering Analysis and Design 5/MSc, Quantitative Methods for Fire Safety Engineering 5, Numerical Methods and Computing 2, Engineering 1, Civil Engineering 1

• Travelling/post-flashover fires, including fire spread simulation using High Performance Computing (HPC) resources (EPSRC UKCTRF/EU TRAFIR, SureFire Hong Kong) (video)
• Fire-structure coupling methodologies for large/complex spaces (RFCS FIRESTRUC)
• Sensor-linked fire and egress models, including ICU evacuations (BRE Trust PhD studentships)
• Fire hazard prediction, including smoke and toxic species (EPSRC, Nuffield)
• Thermo-mechanical response of composite and steel vessels in fire (EU FireComp, EPSRC PhD studentship with Akzonobel/Promat)
• Fire behaviour of energy efficient constructions and facade fires (Rockwool)

Room 3.08, Alexander Graham Bell building https://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/maps?building=0618

http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/ssmith13/

School Roles:

• Director of Students - Academic oversight of student support
• Convenor of Board of Examiners - MSc in Electronics

Research Interests:

• Microelectronic test and measurement
• MEMS and microsystems design, integration test and packaging
• Biosensors, bioelectronics, and biomedical microsystems
• Microfluidic design and manufacturing

Recent Activity:

General Chair of the 2024 IEEE 36th International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS)

Research Article: Deiana, G.; Smith, S. 3D Printed Devices for the Separation of Blood Plasma from Capillary Samples. Micromachines 2024, 15, 359. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi15030359

Research Article: Tsiamis, A.; Buchoux, A.; Mahon, S.T.; Walton, A.J.; Smith, S.; Clarke, D.J.; Stokes, A.A. Design and Fabrication of a Fully-Integrated, Miniaturised Fluidic System for the Analysis of Enzyme Kinetics. Micromachines 2023, 14, 537. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14030537

Research Article: Jamie R.K. Marland, Mark E. Gray, Camelia Dunare, Ewen O. Blair, Andreas Tsiamis, Paul Sullivan, Eva González-Fernández, Stephen N. Greenhalgh, Rachael Gregson, R. Eddie Clutton, Magdalena M. Parys, Alex Dyson, Mervyn Singer, Ian H. Kunkler, Mark A. Potter, Srinjoy Mitra, Jonathan G. Terry, Stewart Smith, Andrew R. Mount, Ian Underwood, Anthony J. Walton, David J. Argyle, Alan F. Murray, Real-time measurement of tumour hypoxia using an implantable microfabricated oxygen sensor, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 2020, 30, 100375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2020.100375.

• PhD, The University of Edinburgh, Title: "Sheet Resistance and Electrical Linewidth Test Structures for Semiconductor Process Characterisation", 2003, EPSRC funded project.
• B.Eng. (Hons.), Electronics and Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics), The University of Edinburgh, 1997

• Member of the Steering Committee and Technical Programme Committee, IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS) - https://icmts.net
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, The University of Edinburgh, 2013
• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, 2013
• Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Young Academy of Scotland, 2012-2017
• Senior Member of the IEEE since 2012
• Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology since 1997

• Course organiser - Sensors and Instrumentation 5/MSc (ELEE11109/PGEE11219)
• Lecturer - Digital System Design 4/MSc (ELEE10007/PGEE10008)
• Contributor - Community-based Technology Research for Sustainable Development 5 (SCEE11018)