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I lead the Emerging Sustainable Technologies Laboratory at The University of Edinburgh. The ESTech Lab forges the future generation of sustainable energy and separation technologies.The ESTech Lab invented unanticipated solutions for negative emission separation technologies (low grade heat-powered CO2 capture&concentration from the air and hydrothermal carbonisation) along with other emerging heat-powered devices for water and cooling in data centres.The ESTech Lab methods span from Thermodynamics to prototyping and testing, where Thermodynamics is used as an ignition to the design.In its inventions, the Lab often exploits nanoporous solids or ionic nano-interfaces because they make possible a number of processes otherwise nonviable, often unlocking unimaginable opportunities for sustainable living.

• Post-graduate certificate for Academic Practice (PgCAP). The University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Edinburgh (UK). Master-level programme to support academic staff to effectively engage with their teaching responsibilities, enabling my current Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. 8/12/2020
• PhD in Energy, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona (Italy), 2009
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona (Italy), 2004

• 01/03/2023-2025    Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow in Energy Efficient Data Centres.
• Member of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre and UK Carbon Capture Research Centre
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The Higher Education Academy (https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/) is the UK leading institution for accreditation of teaching in higher education

• Member of the Senatus Academicus (Senate) of The University of Edinburgh

  Editorial board member of: 

• Carbon Neutrality (Springer Nature) since 2021. The journal is an initiative of the China-UK Low Carbon College at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• Energy & Environment (SAGE) since 2018.

• The Innovation Energy (Innovation Press) since 2025. 

  Guest-Editor of Special Issues:

• 2023/24 of Carbon Neutrality (Springer Nature) jointly with Dr. Shuanshi Fan, Dr Jia Li, Dr. Zhenyuan Yin, Dr. Tao Ren, Dr. Lei Hou on Decarbonization and CCUS

• 2020/21 of Energy (Elsevier) jointly with Prof. Ruzhu Wang (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy) of the Special Issue on Solutions for Ultra-Low Temperature Heat Recovery and Utilization

  Associate Editor of: 

• Frontiers in Thermal Engineering - Advancements in Cooling and Heating (Frontiers) since 2021

   

• Chair of the 10^th Heat Powered Cycle Conference in 2023 (148 delegates from 20 countries)
• Member of the International Scientific Board of Heat Powered Cycle Conference series since 2017
• Member of the organizing committee of:
  • Thermodynamics 2017
  • The 33^rd European Symposium of Applied Thermodynamics (ESAT) 2024
• Member of the International Scientific Board of International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems (IMPRES) in 2016

• Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 2 CHEE08019 (current)
• Engineering Thermodynamics 2 SCEE08006 (past)
• Chemical Engineering 1 Laboratory CHEE08001 (past)
• Engineering Mathematics 2 SCEE08010 (past)
• Chemical Engineering Design: Synthesis and Economics 4 CHEE10005 (past)
• Chemical Engineering Design 4 CHEE10010 (past)
• Chemical Engineering Study Project 4 CHEE10009 (current)
• Chemical Engineering Design Project 4 CHEE10002 (current)
• Chemical Engineering Research Project 5 CHEE11017 (current)
• Chemical Engineering Industrial Project 5 CHEE11014 (current)

• Ultralow grade heat
• Heat-powered adsorption water purification technologies
• Heat-powered adsorption cooling
• Data Centre Cooling
• Cooling/Water nexus in Data Centres
• Heat-powered adsorption direct air capture

Low grade heat, thermal energy storage, adsorption heating and cooling, adsorption desalination, solar thermal energy, temperature swing adsorption, heat transformers, thermodynamics, heat transfer, ionic liquids, ionogels.

Currently open positions in my group:

Open PhD projects:

Structured Ionic Liquid for Vapor Sorption

https://twitter.com/themispr

Themis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh where he established the Centre for Electronics Frontiers (CEF) and is currently the Head of the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS) that also hosts the Scottish Microelectronics Centre (SMC). His work focuses on developing energy-efficient AI hardware solutions through innovating novel semiconductor technologies and neuromorphic computing architectures. He leads an interdisciplinary team comprising researchers with expertise across materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for applications in embedded systems and AI. 

He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and is an Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET, the Institute of Physics and member of Academia Europaea. He is the Director of the UKRI APRIL AI Hub that is developing AI tools and capabilities for the electronics sector. He also served as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nanoelectronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). 

In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 26 countries and in 2025 he founded EVA that is building new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering and with the Royal Academy of Engineering Princess Royal Silver Medal in 2025.

PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, “Application of Maxwell-Wagner Polarisation in Monolithic Technologies”, Imperial College London, UK.

MSc in Microelectronics and Telecommunications, University of Liverpool, UK.

BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Lincoln, UK.

Member Academia Europaea

Fellow Member (FBCS), The British Computer Society

Fellow Member (FRSC), The Royal Society of Chemistry

Fellow Member (FInstP), The Institute of Physics

Fellow Member (FIET), The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Member of the American Nano Society (ANS)

Member, Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering (IME) 

Senior Member (SMIEE), Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers

PGEE11195 - Engineering Research Methods with Grand Challenge

PGEE11038 - Microfabrication Techniques

Emerging Semiconductor Technologies for sustainable AI Hardware solutions (see Ingenia cover on his work as RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies).

AI tools/capabilities for enhancing innovations in electronics and semiconductor technologies (see work as Director of the UKRI APRIL AI Hub).

AWARDS

2026                Honorary Doctorate, Department of Physics at the University of Patras, Greece

2026                Community Award (Highly Commended), APRIL AI Hub, RAI AI & Robotics Awards

2025                Princess Royal Silver Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering

2021                Blavatnik Award for UK Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering

2020                Chartered Engineer (CEng), Engineering Council

2019                Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technology – AI Hardware

2018                University Research Group of the Year finalist, TechWorks Awards

2018                University Research Award finalist: Memristor record, Elektra Awards

2017                Royal Society Industry Fellowship 

2017                Lloyd’s Register Foundation 100A1 ambassador

2013                EPSRC Early Career Fellowship

2010                Lindemann Trust Fellowship 

2008                Corrigan Foundation and LSI Inc. Fellowship in Nanoscale Science & Technology

2006                The A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholar

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2026 –               Head of Institute for Integrated Micro & Nano Systems, University of Edinburgh, UK

2024 –               Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Programme Strategy Board, University of Edinburgh, UK

2022 – 2026     Director of Centre for Electronics Frontiers, University of Edinburgh, UK

www.timm-krueger.de

I am Professor of Fluid and Suspension Dynamics. My research focuses on the modelling and simulation of complex fluids on microfluidic scales, for example suspensions of deformable particles or red blood cells. I am teaching Chemical Engineering in the second year. I am the Co-Chair of the University's Research Cultures Forum.

• PhD in Physics, Bochum University, Germany, 2011
• Diploma in Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2007

• Institute of Physics
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• German Physical Society

Chemistry and Processes 2

• Modelling and simulation of complex fluids
• Microfluidics, suspensions and emulsions
• Blood flow in complex geometries and blood cell separation
• Inertial microfluidics
• Lattice-Boltzmann method
• Immersed-boundary method

I lead a research group focused on developing and applying signal processing algorithms to biomedical data. Our main aim is to reveal the subtle changes that major diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's and epilepsy) cause in the brain activity and how this changes in different conditions and mental states.

In October 2013, I joined the Institute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, as a Chancellor's Fellow in biomedical signal processing. I was tenured in August 2016 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2020.

Previously, I held a post-doctoral position at the School of Computing and Mathematics of Plymouth University.

My training includes an MEng in telecommunications engineering from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2005 and a PhD in biomedical signal processing from the same university in 2010.

• 2010 - PhD in Telecommunications Engineering - University of Valladolid (Spain)
• 2005 - MEng in Telecommunications Engineering (First) - University of Valladolid (Spain)

• Senior Member of the IEEE
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Programme Director of the MSc in Signal Processing and Communications
• Course organiser of Image Processing
• Teacher in Engineering Software 3
• Tutor in Engineering Mathematics 2A
• Supervision of final year projects and MSc theses

• Biomedical signal processing
• Brain connectivity
• Graph theory
• Machine learning
• Nonlinear analysis

Dr. Chris Beckett joined the School in early 2017. His research interests are the advanced geotechnical and structural characterisation of stabilised and unstabilised unsaturated soils used as construction materials; geotechnical characterisation of agricultural soil constraints (compaction and water repellency); and centrifugal scale modelling of soil structural behaviour. He lectures in Foundation Engineering and holds an Adjunct Reseach Fellow position at the University of Western Australia.

PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, Durham University (2011)

MEng (hons) in Civil Engineering, First Class, Durham University (2008)

• Chair: Standards Australia Committee BD-083 Earth Building
• Member: RILEM TC 274-TCE Testing and characterisation of earth-based building materials and elements

• PhD in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
• MSc in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
• Diploma (BEng/MEng) in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

• Year 4/5, Water and Wastewater Systems 4
• Year 3, Conceptual Design and Sustainability 3
• Year 2, Environmental Engineering and Sustainability 2

• Wastewater treatment
• Water disinfection
• Environmental sustainability
• Advanced oxidation processes
• Photocatalysis
• Electrolysis
• Life cycle assessment
• Microplastics

Andrea has a first degree in Chemical Engineering at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal, followed by an Industrial Placement at Fujifilm, former Avecia in Grangemouth working on dye purification for inkjet printers using membrane technology.

During her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, she carried out extensive research focused on the removal of organic and inorganic trace contaminants from water (e.g. hormones, pesticides, uranium) using membrane technology. She subsequently participated in the AFFIRM project “Analysis of biofilm mediated fouling of nanofiltration membranes” funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the EU Framework Programme 7 (project 278530; Total budget: €1.5M) in Ireland as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow between 2012 and 2013. The work focused in understanding bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation on nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes.

Andrea’s current research projects focus on developing new technologies and materials for sustainable desalination, water and wastewater treatment processes with the aim of recovering a high yield of resources such as potable water, bioenergy and chemicals. Her projects involve:

• Water and wastewater remediation with biochar from waste in collaboration with the Biochar Centre in the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
• Aquaculture wastewater bioremediation with algae and other living organisms for the recovery of water, biomass and bioenergy in collaboration with Scottish Association for Marine Science and Aquaculture Industries;
• Desalination, water and wastewater treatment with membrane technology and novel nanomaterials;
• Molecular level characterisation of dissolved organic matter for improved water treatment in collaboration with the School of Chemistry, the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh and Scottish Water.

Andrea’s research results have been published in several journals such as Water Research, Environmental Science and Technology, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science and Journal of Membrane Science.

2005 Five-year Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon (equivalent to 1^st honours MEng)

2011 PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Edinburgh on the study of the adsorption and removal of endocrine disruptors by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane processes.

• Water Resources 2 (CIVE08021)
• Water and Wastewater Systems 3 (CIVE09026)
• Group Design Project (Potable Water Supply) (SCEE11003)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering) University College Dublin

Dr. Serb is a reader in Unconventional AI Hardware Technologies at the University of Edinburgh.

He is a MIET and SMIEEE.

He has led a grant portfolio of ~£2M worth of projects, including a DSTL contract for studying the feasibility of adiabatic capacitive neural networks and the UKRI New Investigator Award "ANAGRAM".

He has further been a co-investigator in UKRI MINDS CDT.

He has supervised 20+ PhD students and 6× postdocs. His research interests span across circuit and system design and AI, with particular focus on emerging technologies such as memimpedance elements.

He has published 50+ journal articles and 50+ conference papers, and filed 5× patents.

Furthermore, he is co-founder and CTO of ArC instruments ltd., a company that manufactures instrumentation for memimpedance device characterisation and testing (https://www.arc-instruments.co.uk/).

PhD degree in EEE - Imperial college, London, 2014.

MEng degree in BioMedical engineering - Imperial college, London, 2009

MIET - Member of the IET

SMIEEE - Senior member of the IEEE

ELEE08015 - Digital System Design 2

PGEE11136 - Applications of Sensor and Imaging Systems (component module leader)

• 2007-2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
• 2003-2007: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Durham
• 1995-1999: MSci Physics, University of Durham
• 1999-2003: PhD Condensed Matter Physics, University of Durham

• Microelectronics 2 (Lecture course)
• Electromagnetics 3 (Lecture course)
• Electromagnetics 4 (Lecture course)
• Applications of Liquid Crystals in Sensing (Lecture course)
• Electrical Engineering 1 (Tutorials)
• Electronics Project Laboratory 2A (Labs)
• Electronics Project Laboratory 2B (Labs)

• MicroRNA biosensors
• Adaptive photonic systems and devices
• Liquid crystal lenses
• Polymer composites
• Liquid crystals
• Liquid crystal lasers
• Wireless and flexible pressure sensors for wearable electronics

• MSc Structural Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2004
• PhD Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, 2008
• MEng Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2002

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• The Finite Elemenent Method
• Soil Mechanics
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Engineering Mathematics

• Mechanics of generalised continua
• Micromechanics of materials
• Computational Mechanics
• Mechanics of geomaterials