Academic staff

• 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)

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) 

• PhD in Ocean Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) in Civil Engineering, India
• M.Tech (Master of Technology) in Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, India

• Member of Engineering Committee on Oceanic Resources (ECOR), RINA

• Marine Energy-5
• Solid Mechanics 3 [Mechanical Engineering]
• Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals Renewable Energy [MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems]

• Wave Energy
• Wave-current loadings on Offshore Structures
• Model testing of Offshore/Coastal structures
• Numerical and Physical wave modeling
• Ocean wave analysis and Statistics

Rebecca Cheung received her secondary and tertiary education in Scotland. After obtaining a first class honours degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, she was awarded a Scholarship from the Croucher Foundation to study towards a Ph.D, which she received from the same University in 1990. During her Ph.D, she was a visiting researcher with the Semiconductor Technology Group at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre in Yorktown Heights, USA, where high density plasma etching techniques were developed for GaAs nanostructures. The process-induced material damage was characterised using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum transport techniques.

Professor Cheung joined the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and her current research interests include Silicon Carbide Microelectromechanical Systems, Biomimetical Systems and Graphene. She is funded by EPSRC and Scottish Enterprise to develop fabrication processes and technologies for the production of microelectromechanical systems in silicon carbide; as well as a multi-channel biomimetical system consisting of an array of resonating gate transistors integrated with neural electronics for mimicking the cochlea.

Previously, Professor Cheung had been a visiting scientist with the Mesoscopic Physics Group in the Department of Applied Physics at Delft Institute of Microelectronics and Submicron Technology, The Netherlands; the Semiconductor Technology Group at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics, ETHZ, Switzerland and the Nanoelectronics Research Center at Glasgow, working on various topics related to semiconductor technology, process-induced materials damage in GaAs nanostructures, mesoscopic physics in SiGe heterostructures and microwave circuits in InP for gigabit electronics.

Additionally, she had been a founding member of the "Nanostructure Engineering Science and Technology" (NEST) Group at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1998, with research funding from the prestigious Marsden Fund administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand for the research programme "Science and Engineering of Nanostructures and Devices".

Professor Cheung serves on numerous conference committees and scientific panels. She had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012, is a senior member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET and is an Honorary Professor with the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.

In 2013, Professor Cheung served as Program Chair for the 57th International Conference on Electron, Ion, Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN), the premier conference on the science and technology of nanopatterning; and now serves in the conference advisory committee.

• BSc in E&E Eng (1st class honours), PhD, both from the University of Glasgow

• FRSE, FIET, SMIEEE

• Bioelectronics, Microelectronic Devices, Nanotechnology, Analogue Electronics, Microsystems Group Design Project

• MEMS, Nanoelectronics

Present members

Yun Jiang

Dexiang Zhang

Jacob Wang

Rasool Siddiqui

Past members

Dr Liudi Jiang - Professor, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton

Dr Natalie Plank - Senior Lecturer in Physics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Dr Stefan Enderling - Australia

Louise Teo - Germany

Ian Bright - Australia

Dr Tongtong Zhu - University of Cambridge

Dr Petros Argyrakis - Greece

Dr Kin Kiong Lee - University of Melbourne, Australia

Shah Baten - Imperial College London

Dr Carolina Mateo Segura - Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University

Dr Philippa Parmiter - Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage, Edinburgh

Isaac Gual - Intesis, Spain

Dr Damien Thuau - Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux, France

Dr Juan Jose Sanz-Fernandez - European Space Agency, The Netherlands

Dr Rhonira Latif - Senior Lecturer, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr Boris Svilicic - Professor, Department of Marine Electronics and Communications, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Dr Enrico Mastropaolo - Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - sadly deceased

Dr Tao Chen - Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China

Eldad Grady - Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dr Shiwei Wang - Reader, University of Edinburgh

Dr Christian Nunez Alvarez - Keysight Technologies Inc., US

Dr Rui Zhang - Research Fellow, Condensed Matter Physics group, University of Manchester

Dr Asa'ad Al-masha'al - Lecturer, University of Basrah, Iraq

Dr Graham Wood - Process Engineer, Scottish Microelectronics Centre, University of Edinburgh

Dr Karina Jeronimo Martinez - Process Engineer, Newport Wafer Fab, Cardiff, Wales

Behzad Jazizadeh - University of Warwick, UK

• http://www.css.eng.ed.ac.uk

Professor Gareth Harrison holds the Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He has held a number of executive leadership roles in the School of Engineering, most recently as Head of School.

His research is focused on renewable energy integration within energy systems and he has built a reputation for the application of meteorological modelling and optimisation methods for energy network operation and planning. He is currently a Co-investigator on several EPSRC and Ofgem/InnovateUK projects covering energy storage and power networks. He was Associate Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (2016-2022), Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems project (2012-2015), examining climate impacts on energy system resilience, and has been Co-Investigator on many UK and EU consortia.

Professor Harrison is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He was a founding member and now Emeritus member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.

• BEng (Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 1997
• PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2001

• Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Emeritus Member, RSE Young Academy of Scotland
• Inquiry Committee Member, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Energy Inquiry (2017 - )
• Member of Working Group, Royal Academy of Engineering, Wind Power Inquiry(2012 – 2014)
• Associate Editor/Editorial Panel, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Energy (2002 - )
• Editorial Board Member, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (2018 –)
• Editorial Board Member, IET Energy Systems Integration (2018 –)
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (2005 - )
• Guest Editor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, ‘Special Issue in marine and ocean energy dedicated to the work and memory of Professor Ian Bryden’ (2019)
• International Advisory Board, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2013 - 2019)
• Associate Editor, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2010 –2013)

• Interdisciplinary Group Design Project [MEng]
• MSc Dissertation

• Renewable resource assessment
• Network Integration of Renewable Energy
• Multi-vector energy systems/energy systems integration
• Climate Change Impacts on Renewable Energy
• Life cycle assessment (or carbon footprints)

http://www.carboncapture.eng.ed.ac.uk/

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2012
• Laurea summa cum laude in Chemical Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy, 2009

• Chemical Engineering Laboratories 3 CHEE09016
• Chemical Engineering Industrial Project 5 CHEE11014
• Chemical Engineering Study Project 4 CHEE10009

• Adsorption and diffusion in nanoporous materials
• Characterisation of porous solids
• Carbon capture

• Member International Adsorption Society
• Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Member American Chemistry Society
• Review Editorial Board of Advanced Fossil Fuel Technologies

Dr Julio Bros-Williamson is a Chancellor's Fellow in Net-Zero Buildings at the School of Engineering (SoE), Institute of Infrastructure and Environment (IIE). He belongs to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Discipline, joining the school in September 2021 contributing to research, consultancy and teaching. His post is co-funded by the universities Estates department and SoE, contributing to the research and knowledge transfer of net-zero performance through building performance, in-situ envelope testing, retrofit of existing buildings and development of Living Labs and Digital Twins of specific university buildings.

Julio graduated with a PhD from Edinburgh Napier University in 2019 with a thesis that examined the impact of climate change and longitudinal envelope performance dilapidation on dwellings in Scotland. He is an architect, with 15 years of industry experience, who graduated from the School of Architecture at the Marista University in Mexico City. He holds an MSc in Energy Efficient Building (distinction) from Oxford Brookes University and obtained his professional certification in 2003 as a Chartered Architect (Mexico) accredited by the Secretaria de Educacion Publica, allowing him to become a member of the Mexican College of Architects. In 2010 he took up the role as a Director and contributing member of the Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) as well as becoming its Treasurer from 2015 to 2018.

Julio is passionate about the low carbon performance of new and existing buildings, as wells as the building envelope performance and post occupancy evaluation of building users. He has experience in the implementation, optimisation and use indoor air quality sensors, in-situ building performance tools as well as digital skills using point cloud scanners (FARO) to capture interior and exterior space into a .gbxml digital format transferrable to BIM. Julio is a trained and certified Commercial Operations Pilot (drones) after undertaking a competency assessment programme. He has extensive skills in the use of dynamic thermal modelling to deliver simulations of building designs.

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Edinburgh Napier University, Climate change and building performance
• Master of Science (MSc), Oxford Brookes University, Energy Efficient Building
• Bachelor Honours Degree, BArch (Hons), Architecture, Universidad Marista (CUM DES), Mexico City, Mexico.

Membership of Professional Body

• Royal Institute of Architects Scotland (RIAS), Affiliate membership
• Member of the Mexican College of Architects (State of Quintana Roo, Mexico)
• Chartered Architect status (Mexico) certified by the Secretaria de Educacion Publica (Spanish)

Current roles:

• Project manager & Board member for the Edinburgh Home Demonstration forum, Academic lead & representative: https://www.cs-ic.org/library/edinburgh-home-demonstrator/
• Co-Investigator of the Housing, Construction and Infrastructure (HCI) Skills Gateway board, part of the Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region Deal, funded by the UK and Scottish Governments: https://www.hciskills.org/

Previous roles:

• Postgraduate examining board member, Edinburgh Napier University
• Co-founder - Retrofit Scotland (http://www.retrofitscotland.org/)
• Steering Group member - International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) - Scotland Chapter
• Member - Scotland's 2020 Climate Group [Built Environment]
• Director & Treasurer - Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA)

Relevant training:

• Certified European Passive House Designer (CEPH), Passivhaus Institut, Darmstadt & University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
• Certificate of Practical Flight Assessment (Drone Pilot), Theoretical & Practical Knowledge / General Airmanship OFQUAL Certificate
• BREEAM Commercial assessor course, Building Research Establishment, Watford, UK.

Current roles:

• Semester 2: CIVE10031, BEng Civil Engineering Design Project 4

Previous experience:

• Undergraduate & Postgraduate lecturer (module leader) in Architectural Technology & Building Performance, Edinburgh Napier University
• Programme Leader of MSc Architectural Technology & Building Performance, Edinburgh Napier University
• Tutor Technology & Environment 2, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), University of Edinburgh
• Undergraduate & Postgraduate lecturer in Interior Architecture, Edinburgh Napier University

• Building performance
• Sustainable building design
• Indoor air quality
• Sustainable standards
• Energy Efficiency in buildings