Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others

Visiting Professor
Paolo.Perona@ed.ac.uk
nfo No Fixed Office
Infrastructure and Environment
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Professor Paolo Perona profile photograph
Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others Professor
Anthony.Walton@ed.ac.uk
+44(0)131 650 7474
nfo No Fixed Office
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Integrated Micro and Nano Systems
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Professor Anthony Walton
Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others Professor
christopher.hall@ed.ac.uk
nfo No Fixed Office
Materials and Processes
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Prof Christopher Hall
  • MA, DPhil, DSc (Oxford)
  • CEng, FRSC, FIMMM, FREng, FRSE
Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others Professor
D.Drysdale@ed.ac.uk
+44(0)131 6505724
nfo No Fixed Office
Infrastructure and Environment
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Prof Douglas Drysdale
  • BSc (First Class Hons) in Chemistry, Edinburgh University
  • PhD in Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University
  • Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Chartered Engineer (C Eng)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
  • Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers
  • Member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science
  • Spontaneous combustion
  • Fire investigation.
  • Fire behaviour of combustible materials (ignition and fire growth)
  • Fire dynamics
  • Chairman of the International Association for Fire Safety Science
  • Chairman of the Education and Professional Development Committee of the Institution of Fire Engineers
  • Editor: Fire Safety Journal
Visiting Professor
Bindhu.Gururajan@ed.ac.uk
nfo No Fixed Office
Materials and Processes
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Bindhu Gururajan

Prof Dr Bindhu Gururajan is Senior Principal Scientist (Fellow) for Formulation and Process Development and a High Performance Pharmaceutical Development Formulation Project Leader in Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. He has done his Masters in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of Birmingham, U.K. Later did his Post-Doctoral research in Pharmaceutical Sciences with University of Greenwich, U.K. based in Pfizer Research Center, Sandwich site on granulation process scale up and modelling. He is an Internationally recognised Pharmaceutical Granulation Expert. He has two decades of hands on practical experience in drug development and delivery by working for four major pharmaceutical company namely Merck, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Novartis in his career. He is active senior committee member of the Particle Technology Subject Group of Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). He is certified Chartered Engineer and Chartered Scientist. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Engineers and Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma for quality management system.

He holds several patents for inflammation and oncology (cancer) drug product formulations and widely published in the granulation process research area. He developed the formulation and manufacturing process for two recent breast cancer product Kisqali and Piqray to improve patients life. He is currently work on late phase oncology project in particular formulation and process development by applying Chemical Engineering first principles approach.

2000 - 2004: PhD Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, U.K. 1998 - 2000: MS (by Research) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 1994 - 1998: B.Tech Chemical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, University of Madras, India

Memberships: CEng, CSci, FIChemE, FRSC, FAPS

Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others Professor
J.McGeough@ed.ac.uk
+44(0)131 6505569
nfo No Fixed Office
Integrated Micro and Nano Systems
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Prof Joe McGeough
Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others Professor
Peter.Grant@ed.ac.uk
+44(0)131 6517125
nfo No Fixed Office
Imaging, Data and Communications
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Professor Peter Grant
  • 1962-1966 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh BSc (Hons), 2nd year class medal
  • 1972-1975 PhD University of Edinburgh "The Design of Surface Acoustic Wave Filters and Applications in Future Communication Systems"
  • Honorary DEng, Heriot-Watt University
  • Honorary DEng, Edinburgh Napier University
  • Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
  • Fellow Institution Engineering and Technology (FIET)
  • Eurasip Fellow
  • Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
  • Fellow IEEE
  • Honorary Professorial Fellow Head School of Engineering and Electronics, 2002-2007
  • Regius Professor of Engineering 2007 - 2009
  • Professor of Electronic Signal Processing to 2007
  • University Curator of Patronage, 2003-2006
  • International Professional Awards and Recognition Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), 2004
  • Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York (FIEEE)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society distinguished lecturer on DSP for Mobile Communications, 1998
  • President, European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), 2000-2002
  • National Professional Fellowships Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
  • Fellow of Institution of Electrical Engineers, London (FIEE)
  • Committee Chairs Electronics and Electrical Engineering Panel for the 2001 UK research assessment exercise (RAE)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sectional Committee, 1999-2003
  • Mechanisms for Excellence group of the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, 2002-date
  • Proceedings IEE Editorial Advisory Panel, IEE 1990-98
  • Editorial Advisory Panel, IEE Electronics and Communications Engineering Journal, 1996-2002
  • EPSRC Communications Signal Processing and Coding programme, assessment 1993-95 and monitoring panels 1996-97
  • Conference Committee Chairs Technical programme, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Glasgow in May 1989
  • European Signal Processing conference (EUSIPCO 94), Edinburgh
  • Paper Premia Awards Bulgin premium, Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) in 1974 and again in 1977
  • IERE Lord Mountbatten premium in 1982
  • IEE Marconi premium 1992
  • IEE J Langham Thompson premium 1992
  • Commercial activities Executive Committee, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, 2002-2004
  • Board Member, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, 1997-date
  • Independent Member, Strategic Advisory Board to the UK Defence Technology Centre in Electromagnetic Remote Sensing, 2003-date
  • Board Member of Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre, 2003-date
Visiting Professor (Teaching)
dwillia4@ed.ac.uk
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others Professor
M.Forde@ed.ac.uk
+44(0)131 6505721
nfo No Fixed Office
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Infrastructure and Environment
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Professor Mike Forde
  • BEng, Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool
  • MSc, Highway and Traffic Engineering, University of Birmingham
  • PhD, University of Birmingham
  • FIEE, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • FIHT, Fellow of the Institute of Highways & Transportation
  • FINDT, Fellow of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing
  • CEng, Chartered Engineer
  • FREng, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
  • FICE, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
  • Geotechnics: Earthworks & Site Investigation
  • Non-destructive testing (NDT) of concrete and masonry - bridges & structures - radar, sonics, ultrasonic tomography, acoustic emission (AE)
  • Director: Institute for Research in Engineering, University of Edinburgh
  • Editor: Journal: "Construction & Building Materials", Elsevier Science
Visiting Professor
Spyros.Karamanos@ed.ac.uk
nfo No Fixed Office
Infrastructure and Environment
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Prof Spyros A Karamanos

Spyros A. Karamanos, is Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics, at the University of Thessaly, Greece, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches courses in Structural Mechanics and Finite Element Methods. From 2016-2019 he was Chair of Structural Engineering, at the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh.

Spyros specializes in structural mechanics and integrity of energy infrastructure systems, with emphasis on steel structures. His research interests focus on buckling and fatigue of pipelines and offshore structures, mainly tubular components and systems, using computational (finite element) methods, and experimental testing. His research has been funded primarily by European research projects, with the participation of European steel and pipeline industry. He has published more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

Spyros has a 5-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1989), and received his PhD in Structural Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, USA (1993).

  • 1993 Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
  • 1991 Μ.Sc. in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
  • 1989 Diploma (5-year degree) in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Highest Honors, 1st out of 350 students).
  1. Steel Tubular Structures and Components
    • Ultimate strength
    • Fatigue (high-cycle and low-cycle)
    • High-strength steel tubulars
    • Offshore wind energy platforms
  2. Pipeline analysis and design
    • Offshore pipeline mechanics
    • Line pipe manufacturing
    • Geohazards and pipelines
  3. Seismic analysis and behavior
    • Structural steel buildings
    • Pipeline systems (hydrocarbon, water)
  4. Assessment of aging infrastructure
    • Defect analysis
    • Remaining strength and fatigue life
    • Applications to
      • industrial equipment (tanks, vessels, piping)
      • pipelines (hydrocarbon, water)
      • offshore platforms