Academic staff

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

• 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

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.css.eng.ed.ac.uk

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

Henry began his career in the energy business within the North Sea oil and gas industry and in 1998 he made the radical move into the emerging commercial marine renewables sector.

• 1994-1998 BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering: 1st class Honours
• 2004-2006 MBA Aberdeen Business School

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Prof. Chen’s research is focused on biomaterials, biomedical engineering, biophysics, and the application of nanomaterials in biology and medicine. In these areas, he has been working on physical (microneedle & nanoneedle arrays) and chemical (nanomaterials) for drug delivery and sensing, as well as microfluidic devices for biomedical applications.

He has published >130 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Journal of Controlled Release, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Chemical Society Reviews. These publications generated an h-index of 58 and >9000 citations. Additionally, he has 3 book chapters and 12 granted patents & 15 patent applications in drug delivery technologies in major countries and regions, mostly in the USA and Europe. His research output has attracted broad media coverage including TV, newspapers, internet websites, journal cover, and journal cover stories.​

His research has been supported by grants from MRC (nanomedicine), ESRC (sing-cell analysis), EPSRC (Phase 0 clinical trial tool development), industry (hydrogel, nanomedicine, antibacterial coatings), Cancer Research UK (biosensor), Royal Society (microfluidic nanomedicine synthesis), and Royal Society of Edinburgh (nanomedicine, biosensor), etc.

Examples of his contribution to technology include: 1. Microneedle transdermal delivery: Invented technology for coating vaccines on small and densely packed microneedles for efficient skin vaccination (22 patents and >20 journal papers); this technology contributed to the establishment of Vaxxas (https://www.vaxxas.com/about-vaxxas/); 2. Diamond nanoneedle arrays: Pioneered diamond nanoneedle arrays for high-throughput intracellular delivery (3 patents and >10 journal papers); 3. Programmable Optical Window Bonding: Invented this technology enabling high-resolution, transparent microfluidic device production through 3D printing.

For scientific community service, he serves as a reviewer for many fields' top journals such as Science Robotics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Small, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of Controlled Release, Biomaterials, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and grant proposals from different research councils in the UK (e.g., EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, CRUK, and Royal Society) and a number of other countries. He is also an associate editor of IET Nanobiotechnology and an editorial board member of Sensors, Bioengineering, and Journal of Functional Biomaterials.

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• DPhil in Materials Science, University of Oxford
• MSc in Chemistry, National University of Singapore

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), United Kingdom
• Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), United Kingdom

• Process Plant Engineering CHEE08016
• Nanomaterials in Chemical & Biomedical Engineering CHEE11026 (With Dr Norbert Radacsi)

• Advanced drug delivery systems
• Antibacterial
• Biodegradable nanomedicine
• Biomaterials
• Biomedical imaging
• Biosensing
• Cancer therapy and diagnosis
• Hydrogel
• Microfluidics
• Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
• Nanotoxicology

Currently, we have an EPSRC/MRC CDT scholarship for urgent application (Project 2: Imaging tumour macrophage polarisation for non-invasive evaluation of anticancer therapy). The applicants must be UK citizens or EU citizens who have been living in the UK for a minimum of 3 years. The deadline is 26/07/2018.

• https://www.findaphd.com/search/PhDDetails.aspx?CAID=2605&LID=300
• http://www.optima-cdt.ac.uk/

Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship

These awards are designed to attract high quality overseas research students to the University of Edinburgh.

http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/international/global/research

Principal's Career Development PhD Scholarships

http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/international/other-funding/development

China Scholarships Council/University of Edinburgh Scholarships (Citizens and permanent residents of the People's Republic of China)

• http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/international/region/as...

Croucher Foundation Study awards (Permanent Hong Kong residents)

• http://www.croucher.org.hk/funding/study_awards

Postdoctoral researchers are welcome to join the group to perform research in bioengineering, biomaterials, and the application of nanomaterials in biology, medicine, environment and energy. Outstanding applicants can consider the following fellowship (just a few examples).

Newton International Fellowships

• http://www.newtonfellowships.org/the-fellowships/

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships

• http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about/individual-fellowships_en

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships

• https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/sir-henry-wellcome-postdoctoral-fellowships

• PhD Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, 2010
• Diploma of Imperial College, Mechanical Engineering and Energy Policy, 2010
• MEng Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2006

• Associate Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• Graduate Member, Energy Institute
• Member, British Institute of Energy Economics

• Personal Tutor
• Thermodynamics (Mechanical) 4
• Project supervision for mechanical engineering undergraduate and Sustainable Energy Systems MSc students

• Analysis of flexible low carbon electricity systems
• Techno-economic analysis of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in electricity systems
• Communication of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to non-specialists
• Power plant and CO₂ capture engineering
• Opportunities and challenges for CCS in developing countries

• Equality and Diversity Coordinator for School of Engineering
• Network Director for UK CCS Research Centre
• Member of Directorate of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage