Academic staff

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• BEng
• PhD

• Senior Member of The Institution for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE)
• Fellow of the Institution for Engineering and Technology (FIET)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)

• Embedded and Wireless Systems - MEng (year 5) and MSc
• Radio Frequency Engineering - Year 4
• Engineering Software -Year 3
• Digital System Design - Year 3
• Coordinator of MEng Programme
• Leader Digital Teaching Subject Group

• High Performance Reconfigurable Architectures
• Low Power Design techniques and strategies.
• Reliable Operating System and Software for Reconfigurable Systems
• Positioning and Location Indoors and in Urban canyons
• Use of sensors for positioning, localisation and tracking.
• Use of wireless technologies for positioning, localisation and tracking.
• Smart Antenna and Radio Frequency (RF) Systems
• RF MEMS devices such as switches and phase shifters
• Design for Mission Critical and Harsh environments
• Evolvable, bioinspired, and adaptive hardware and software systems.
• Multi-objective optimisation.

• Member of the IEEE Executive Technical Committee for VLSI Systems and Applications
• Leader of Embedded Wireless, and Wearable Sensor Systems Group
• Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer sensewhere Ltd.
• Co-Founder Sofant Technolgies

I am an electrical power engineer by training, holding the Personal Chair of Agile Energy Systems at the School of Engineering of the University of Edinburgh.

As a member of the Institute for Energy Systems I lead the Agile Energy Systems Research Group, conducting interdisciplinary research in the areas of renewable energy conversion and integration, smart grids, and robotics and smart materials for energy applications. Our group currently comprises 9 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers and has already graduated an additional 10 PhDs. Our research has generated ~100 peer-reviewed publications.

My teaching includes courses on renewable energy, power and control engineering and research methods. I have a strong track record in developing and delivering courses and programme curricula at both under- and postgraduate levels.

My administrative roles include the School's Directorship of Internationalisation - Students, responsible for the strategic development and delivery of the School's international academic partnerships, while I am also the founding Programme Director of the MSc in Electrical Power Engineering and the 2-year MSc in Advanced Power Engineering.

• BEng Electronics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete (TEIC), 1999
• Postgraduate Diploma in Communications, Control & DSP, University of Strathclyde, 2000
• PhD in Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2005

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)

Control & Instrumentation Engineering 3Course Organiser 3rd Year Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Solar Energy & Photovoltaic SystemsCourse Organiser MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems / Electrical & Advanced Power Engineering

Solar Energy Conversion 5Course Organiser 5th Year MEng Undergraduate Programmes

Engineering Research Methods with Grand ChallengeCourse Organiser (2018-2021) Core course for all Engineering MScs

• Power System Modelling
• Distributed Generation
• Renewable Energy
• Smart Grids & Demand Side Management

Since 2018 I have been a Visiting Professor at the China-UK Low Carbon College of the Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China. I am currently Associate Editor of the IET Smart Grid Journal and Member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI EnergiesJournal. I have also been Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Marine Energy, the Special Issue on Data-Driven Methods in Modern Power Engineering and the Special Issue on Advances in Electrical Power Conversion for Energy, Transportation and Industry Applications of the MDPI Energies Journal.

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of the IET. I am also an active STEM Ambassador for East Scotland, having organised several events promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to the public and especially primary and high school children, specifically in the areas of renewable energy and robotics.

• PhD, Structural Engineering, Queen's University (Canada), 2003
• MSc (Eng), Structural Engineering, Queen's University (Canada), 1999
• BEng, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, 1997

Engineering Education

I have an ongoing interest in improving student ownership of and engagement in education in engineering, and have been involved in various engineering design, professional skills development, and curriculum reform initiatives.

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2010 Dissertation: Transport Phenomena in Cathode Catalyst Layer of PEM Fuel Cells (Advisor: Prof Xianguo Li)
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 2003 Dissertation: Electrostatic Double Layer Interactions in Confined and Many-Body Geometries (Advisor: Prof Subir Bhattacharjee)
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh, 2001 Thesis: Elastic-Plastic Behaviour of a Circular Rod under Combined Torque and Tension (Supervisor: Prof Abu Rayhan Md. Ali)
• BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh, 1998 Thesis: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Solar Water Heater (Supervisor: Prof Md. Imtiaz Hossain)

Editorships Associate Editor in Electrochemical Engineering, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (2022–date) Associate Editor, Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage (2021–date) Associate Editor in Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers and Membrane Reactors, Frontiers in Energy Research (2020–date)

Guest Editor for the special issue: Multiphysics, Multiphase, and Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Porous Media in Electrochemical Energy Systems, Frontiers in Energy Research (2023) Lead Guest Editor for the special issue: Battery Management in Electric Vehicles: Current Status and Future Trends, Batteries (2022–2023) Lead Guest Editor of a special issue on Advanced Energy Materials and Research, Energies (2020–2021)

Editorial Board Member for section Battery Performance, Ageing, Reliability and Safety, Batteries (2022–date) Editorial Board Member of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2022–date) Editorial Board Member for section D1: Advanced Energy Materials, Energies (2019–2023) Editorial Board Member for section Inventions and Innovation in Energy and Thermal/Fluidic Science, Inventions (2018–date)

Advisory Board Member, Challenges, MDPI (2020–date)

• Thermodynamics 4
• Professional Issues for Mechanical Engineers 3
• Sustainable Energy Systems Dissertation
• Mechanical Engineering Project 4

Dr Angus Law is a Lecturer in Fire Safety Engineering; he has previous held positions as a Lecturer at the Univeristy of Queensland (Australia), and as an Engineer at Ove Arup and Partners (UK).

Angus' interests are around developing design methods for use in industry, and ensuring that pratitioners have the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to impliment fire engineering designs safely and effectively.

Angus is currently invovled in reserach projects relating to cladding fires, engineered timber buidlings, and societal aspects of regulation.

PhD in Fire Safety Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh (2010).

MEng Civil Engineering, 1st Class, University of Edinburgh (2007).

Dr Law is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Institution of Fire Engineers (MIFireE).

Dr Law's current teaching roles include:

• Course organiser and primary lecturer in the first year programme's Civil Engineering 1;
• Course organiser and lecture in the honours class - Structural Design for Fire Safety 5.

Dr Law also assists in the delivery of the second year's Surveying Field Trip.

Previous teaching roles have included: Fire Engineering Design: Solutions for Implicit Safety; Introduction to Project Management; and Construction Engineering Management.

Dr Yang's current research interests focus on Composites Engineering (materials, manufacturing and structures) and Computational Engineering (multiscale, multiphysics, multiphase coupling). With a background in manufacturing and later experience in structural and materials engineering, his cross-disciplinary research is at the interfaces of underpinning material science, emerging manufacturing technologies and advanced structural analysis and design. He also develops computational techniques and deterministic models to address multiscale, multiphysics and multiphase coupling challenges across engineering disciplines.

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• BEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2004.
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, 2007.
• PhD in Civil Engineering, Leeds (with ORSAS scholarship), 2011.

CEng, FIMechE, FHEA

I welcome talented PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows and academic/industrial visitors from various engineering disciplines to work on composites engineering and computational engineering.

There are various scholarship opportunities at Edinburgh, click the links below for more details:

CSC-Edinburgh scholarship

Principal's Career Development PhD Scholarships​

Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship

University of Edinburgh scholarships

Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) scholarships

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

‪Andrew Downes‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Andrew studied at the University of Cambridge and was awarded a degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) in 1992. He continued in Cambridge for his PhD on nano-optical microscopy which was awarded in 1996. He remained in Cambridge as a Postdoc on the analysis of metallic nanowires until 1998, when he moved to Marseille to continue work on nano-optical microscopy and spectroscopy. He returned to Cambridge in 2001 to set up a nano-optical microscope, and in 2003-4 was at UCL working on nano-optical lithography.

In 2005 he moved to Edinburgh to work on nano-optical Raman microscopy. In 2006 he set up a Coherent anti-Stokes microscope for biological samples, and in 2007 was awarded an RCUK fellowship which converted into a lectureship in 2012. Research expanded to Raman spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy mechanical measurements, and high-speed Raman imaging of biological samples. A common theme has been novel measurements, and pushing the limits of detection. In 2020 he was promoted to senior lecturer.

A recent focus has been the use of Raman spectroscopy in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, investigating living cells and tissues and applying to accurate diagnosis.

PhD (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1996).

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) since 2017.

• Raman spectroscopy for analysis of biological materials, and disease diagnosis
• High-speed Raman (CARS, SRS) microscopy
• Equipment development for Raman spectroscopy and microscopy
• Nano-scale (tip-enhanced) Raman spectroscopy and microscopy

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
• MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
• Eberly Center Diploma in Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
• Diploma in Translation (DipTrans), Institute of Linguists, London, UK
• Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

• AIChE (CAST), IChemE (CAPE WG), TMS, ASEE, SoCI

• Programme Director of the MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering
• Oil and Gas Systems Engineering 4/5 (SCEE11008)
• Chemical Engineering Design Projects 4 (CHEE10002)
• Chemical Engineering Study Project 4 (CHEE10009)
• Chemical Engineering Industrial Project 5 (CHEE11014)
• Chemical Engineering Research Project 5 (CHEE11017)

Pharmaceutical Process Systems Engineering

• Read: Process modelling and simulation for continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing of artemisinin

Technoeconomic Evaluation of Batch and Continuous Pharmaceutical Processes

• Read: Plantwide design and economic evaluation of two Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (CPM) cases: Ibuprofen and artemisinin

Biochemical, Food & Drink Process Dynamic Optimisation

• Read: Multi-objective process optimisation of beer fermentation via dynamic simulation

Oil & Gas and Energy Systems Modelling and Optimisation

• Read: First-principles rheological modelling and parameter estimation for nanoparticle-based smart drilling fluids

Oil & Gas Project Technoeconomic Evaluation

• Read: A database and workflow integration methodology for rapid evaluation and selection of Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) technologies for heavy oil fields

High-Temperature Materials Processing Optimisation

• Read: Model-based sensitivity analysis and experimental investigation of perlite grain expansion in a vertical electrical furnace

• Pharmaceutical Process Systems Engineering
• Biochemical, Food & Drink Process Dynamic Optimisation
• Oil & Gas and Energy Systems Modelling and Optimisation
• High-Temperature Materials Processing Optimisation

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