Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr, FHEA, MPhil, BSc
Aston Triangle
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Interested in researching within a multidisciplinary project to develop a novel polymer waveguide biosensor capable of single biomolecule detection for very early, rapid and low cost detection of pathogens behind COVID19, Avian Influenza and many other illnesses?
Or perhaps to your curiosity lies within investigating how micro and nanoplastics impact the human body.
Either way, if you are highly motivated and have a good CV (or better), then get in touch!
COST Action ICPLASTIC (18/09/2024 - 17/09/2028)
UN IAEA CRP D15021 Assessing the Fate and Environmental Impact of Plastics in Soil and Crop Ecosystems Using Isotopic Techniques (2023-2027)
COST Action PRIORITY (19/10/2021 - 18/10/2025)
MONPLAS MSCA-860775 – H2020 ITN Research Project (01/2020-12/2023)
CanDo ICT-610472 – FP7 STReP Research Project (01/2014-08/2017)
POSITIVE ICT-257401 – FP7 STReP Research Project (09/2010-08/2013)
INTOPSENS ICT-223932 - FP7 STReP Research Project (09/2008-08/2011)
SABIO IST-026554 – FP6 STReP Research Project (01/2006-12/2008)
ePIXNET IST-004525 FP6 Network of Excellence (01/09/2004-01/09/2008)
LASERPOM FP6 CRAFT Research Project COOP-CT-2004-513275 (10/2004-10/2006)
ATOMCAD FP5 TMR Network- HPRN-CT-1999-00048 (02/2000-08/2004)
NanoFab FP4 TMR Network- ERBFMRXCT970129 (12/1997-11/2002)
CAD and verification of MM- and Submm-Wave Circuits FP4 TMR Network- ERBFMRXCT960050 (09/1996-08/2000)
Research Fellow, Aston University (2020-)
Marie Curie COFUND Research fellow, Aston University (2018-2020)
Senior Researcher “Universitat de Valencia” (2011-2017)
Researcher “KTH - Kungliga Tekniska högskolan” (2009-2010)
Senior Researcher “Universitat Politecnica de Valencia” (2006-2009)
Postdoctoral Researcher, “Universitat de Barcelona” (2004-2006)
Postdoctoral Researcher, “Sigma Plus” (2002-2004)
Postdoctoral Researcher, “Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona” (2000-2002)
Postdoctoral Researcher, “Universidad de Cantabria” (1999-2000)
Graduate Trainee, Philips Semiconductors (1998-1999)
The development of photonics based analytical technologies for both biosensing and micro and nanoplastic characterisation applications in multiple areas such as healthcare, veterinary, food quality/safety and/or the environment for significant and timely socio-economic impacts. They are principally based on ‘effective’ integration of novel photonic and plasmonic devices and structures within microfluidic systems for near proximity analyte flow and the application of innovative transduction and/or spectral analysis mechanisms, including for multi-modal analysis. This enables increased sensitivity and specificity, as well as high throughput, and in the case of biosensors also real time responses and the use of small sample/reagent volumes for low-cost assays, whilst for the analysis of micro and nanoplastics it also allows their segregation into different ‘pipelines’ of analytical sequences, including through angle resolved polarimetric SERS analysis and intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy. The incorporation of machine learning within both application areas leads to greater throughput, accuracy and reproducibility still, whilst for the devices and structures of particular interest are those based on the use of porous membranes as substrates or templates, metal nanoparticle assemblies and quantum dot/metal nanoparticles polymer-based composites.
CPhys, MInstP, IEEE, SPIE
Fast and specific detection of micro and nanoplastic by flowthrough plasmonic sensing - Aisha Bibi (09/20 -10/24), maximum qualification (4/11/24)
Portable and low cost photoluminesent (PL) micro- and nanoplastics detection - SYed Atif Iqrar (5/21- 4/25?)
Development of a polarimetric based optical biosensor using a freestanding porous membrane biosensing – Jesus Alvaréz Alavaréz (09/10 – 7/13), maximum qualification (17/09/13).
£2000 EPSRC IAA Impact Primer Award for doctoral candidate secondment to QUB
£10000 EPSRC Research impact acceleration fund to continue Raman software and interface development.
2,464€ Erasmus+ funding for doctoral candidate secondment to IPHT and QUB
£100,343 AIPT capital funding for an angle resolved polarimetric Raman micro spectrometer
£9500 Research England priming fund for doctoral candidate secondment to QUB
3.9M€ H2020 MSCA ITN project MONPLAS, 2020-2023 – Awarded/Management of whole project and legal principle researcher or PR (Aston)
4.0M€ FP7 ICT project CanDo, 2014-2017 – Awarded/Management of whole project and legal principle researcher or PR (UV)
Q-Nanotics (Spanish Ministry of Education) project, 2012-2015 – Proposal contribution, awarded/legal PR - head of group (UV)
2.9M€ FP7 ICT project POSITIVE, 2010-2014 – Awarded/Management of whole project and legal PR (UV)
10K€ VINNOVA award, 2010 – Awarded grant, legal PR - head of group (KTH)
2.6M€ FP7 ICT project INTOPSENS – Awarded/Management of whole project, legal PR - head of group (KTH)
SINADEC (Spanish Ministry of Education) project, 2009-2011 - Proposal contribution, awarded/PR - head of group/PR (UPV)
2.4M€ FP6 IST project SABIO – Management of whole project
6.0M€ FP6 IST NoE ePIXnet JRA Sensors – Partner manager
NANOPOLAR (Spanish Ministry of Education) project, 2006-2009 – Proposal contribution, awarded/PR - head of group/PR (UB)
2022 – Graduate course: Interdisciplinary research, results and grant writing module (Aston University)
2020-2022 EE3OEL and AP4OEL Optoelectronics Module leader (Aston University)
2015, 2016 – Supervision of Physics for Biologists laboratory (University of Valencia)
2008-2009 - ‘GCSE’ and ‘A’ Level tutoring at British Private School
1998 - Support role in preparing and running Masters laboratory on materials selection
1997 - Support role in preparing and running Masters laboratory on materials selection
1996 - Support role in preparing and running Masters Workshop on crystallography
1995-1996 - Support role in preparing and running Masters laboratory on microscopy
1995 - Support role in preparing and running a computation analysis workshop
1994 - Support role in preparing and running various 1st year physics laboratories
1993 - Support role in preparing and running various 1st year physics laboratories
FEHA
Postgraduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Distinction) – Aston University in 2019
Assistant professor/lecturer accreditation
Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) – Since 2018
Spanish National Agency for Evaluation of Quality & Accreditation (ANECA) – Since 2016
Project Reviewer
FETOpen/Pathfinder, MCSA IF and NMP evaluator in EC FP7 and H2020.
Nanoscience projects evaluator in the “Blanc programme” of the French National Research Agency (ANR).
PhD THESIS EXAMINED
Nanophotonic biosensor based on surface Plasmon interference – Peter Debackere, 15/12/09
Academic Assembly member for Senate
PI representative of AIPT management group
Committee member of Agile Workspaces Working Group at Aston University 2021-present
Committee member of EPS Induction Working Group at Aston University 2021
Editorial board member of the International Journal of Foods and Biosystems Engineering
International Program Committee member of Allsensors 2016-present
International Program Committee member of Photoptics 2015-present
International Program Committee member for International Conference on Sensors Engineering and Electronics Instrumental Advances (SEIA) 2015-present
Scientific Committee of International Conference on Food and Biosystems Engineering (FABE) 2015, 2017
International program committee member of Eurosensors XXV
European Silicon Photonics Cluster
Expert in Nanofutures key node group of Design, Modelling and Testing of Materials
Student Representative of Liverpool University Engineering and Physical Sciences Graduate School Committee (1995-1998)
Secretary of Department of Materials Science and Engineering (University of Liverpool) Staff-Student Liaison Committee (1995-1998)
Faculty (Science and Engineering) representative for University Guild Council for University of Liverpool (1995-1998)
Prof. P. Bienstman, Ghent University/IMEC
Prof. L. Pavesi and Dr P. Bettotti, Trento University
Prof. G. Hardiman and Dr C. Cao, QUB
Prof A. Russom, KTH
Prof J. Popp and C. Krafft, IPHT/Jena University
Prof. H. Ottevaere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dr. M-F. Dignac, Sorbonne University
Prof. S. Krause and E. Valsami-Jones, University of Birmingham
Dr. S. Cattaneo and H. Knapp, CSEM
Prof. J. Vollertsen, Aalborg University
Prof. W. Peijnenburg, Leiden University
Prof. T. Galloway and F. Vollmer, Exeter University
Dr. S. Wright, Imperial College London
Prof. A. Zyatts, King College London
Dr T. Krahn, Bayer Worldwide Healthcare
Dr. H. Becker, Microfluidic Chipshop
Dr. M-P. Denieul, Veolia
Dr. D. Reece, Renishaw
Dr. S. Luettjohann, Bruker
Dr. R.Wills, Agilent
Dr. J. Brand, Zeiss
Dr. D. Price, PerkinElmer
Dr. S. Fitzgerald, Horiba
Dr. S. Keuning, BioclearEarth
Dr. C. Hill, Brave Analytics
Dr. Maximilian Lackner, CIRCE Biotechnologies
Dr. S. McGurk, Oxford Instruments – WITEC
Dr. G. Bordos, Eurofins
Dr. Heidi Goenaga-Infante LGC Ltd
Dr. M. Unger, Photothermal Spectroscopy
Dr. A Venkateshaiah, EdenMicrofluidics
Dr. F. Huynh, Polymateria
Dr. M. Rozehnal, Lightigo
Dr. K. Klabjan, ClearOne
Dr. J. L. Guzman Malvar, Labaqua
Dr. N. Benismail, Nestlé
Dr. L. Reece, Heinz
Dr. K. Maher, Severn Trent Water
Room: NW617
Phone: 0121 204 5494
Email: [email protected]
Interested in applying for a European Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out your research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop your career at one of the UK’s largest photonics research centres, including secondments at strategic partners, followed by a 6-month placement at one of Europe’s leading industrial companies?
If so, and you have a promising CV, Dr Daniel Hill (PI of H2020 MONPLAS, FP7 CanDo, FP7 Positive and others) and Dr Kaiming Zhou (PI of Innovate UK project and MSCA Postdoctoral fellow host) of the Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies (AIPT) at UK’s Aston University are looking to support you in developing your application to the following call (opening on 23/4/24, closing on 11/9/24) to work on a project related to optical (hollow) fibre biosensing combined with Raman spectroscopy through machine learning for biomedical applications:
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024
Among its numerous accolades, Aston University won The Times Higher Education Awards: Outstanding Entrepreneurial University" in 2020 and the Guardian’s University of the Year in 2021. AIPT is one of the largest photonics research centres in the UK, with 100+ staff and current grant funding amounting to €32M+, of which the majority comes from EU projects. AIPT’s success has been built on significant achievements in high-speed optical transmission, signal processing, wide-band amplification, nonlinear photonics, fibre grating technology, fibre lasers, bio- and medical photonics, and in various fibre optic sensing applications. AIPT has an impressive portfolio of project funding, industrial and international collaborations, five spin-out companies, highly cited research papers and 60 patents, all demonstrating excellence in the field. AIPT maintains active and fertile collaborations with industrial companies and academic institutions throughout the world through accumulating valuable experience in supervising and administrating diverse research projects, fostering new research and industrial collaborations.
FHEA, Aston University
Award Date: 23 Dec 2019
PhD, Growth initiation processes for GaAs and AlGaAs in CBE, University of Liverpool
Award Date: 14 Dec 1998
MPhil, The commissioning of a cosmic-ray telescope based on reverse biased pn junction silicon detectors and characterising a double-metal silicon detector from data taken in a beam test at CERN, University of Liverpool
Award Date: 19 Dec 1995
BSc, Physics with Astrophysics, University of Leeds
Award Date: 20 Jul 1993
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Abstract