Research Staff

	Prof. Julian Gardner FREng FRS Head of Research Laboratory Electronic Noses (E-noses) Smart chemical sensors/MEMS		Prof. Marina Cole Professor of Electronic Engineering Piezoelectric sensors RF circuits and VLSI design
	Mr. Ian Griffith Electronics Engineer Electronic circuit design PCB layout design and fabrication Device assembly and testing		Mr. Frank Courtney Sensors Research Technician Machining and prototyping Ultrasonic wire bonding Clean room management
	Dr. Barbara Urasinska-Wojcik Visiting Fellow, Sorex Sensors Ltd Nanomaterials VOC FBAR sensors Analytical chemistry		Dr. Karthick Kannan Padmanathan UKRI Research Fellow Materials science Gas/Chemical sensors Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Electro-analytical chemistry
	Dr. Siavash Esfahani Part-time Research Fellow • Chemical sensors • Interface circuitry		Mrs. Maram Sulimani PG (Research) Electronic noses SMR-based VOC sensors RF and interface circuitry
	Dr. Farah Villa-Lopez Researcher, WMG Design of MEMS based acoustic sensors SMR based particle sensors		Meer Hesam Farazmand Researcher • MEMS • Biosensors • Microfluidics
	Dr Zoltan Racz Visiting Fellow, UK Biosensors		Dr. Prasanta Guha Visiting Fellow, India Gas sensing materials

Group alumni

Dr. Usman Yaqoob • Research Fellow (2023-Jan. 2026)	Mr. Shrey Pathak • Submitted thesis in 2012 • Now at Bath University
Dr. Marina Talib • Received Ph.D. in 2012	Dr. Gurmukh Sehra • Received Ph.D. in 2005
Dr. Jesus Garcia Guzman • Received Ph.D. in 2005	Dr. Forest Tan • Received Ph.D. in 2006 • Now with NTU
Dr. Takao Iwaki • Received Ph.D. in 2007	Dr. Costas Argyrides • Research Fellow in Term 2 and 3 in 2008
Dr. Irina Leonte • Received Ph.D. in 2008	Dr. Jaleed Khawaja • Received Ph.D. in 2009
Dr. Sherzad Al-Khalifa • Senior Research Fellow until 2010	Mr. Khaled Aggour • Received M.Sc. in 2010
Dr. Fauzan Che Harun • Received Ph.D. in 2010	Dr. Philip King • Received Ph.D. in 2010 • Now at Bournemouth University
Dr. Prasanta Guha • Postdoctoral Fellow in 2009-10	Dr. Foysol Chowdhury • Senior Research Fellow 2010-11 • Now with Cambridge CMOS Sensors
Dr. James Taylor • Received Ph.D. in 2011	Mr. Alam Ali • M.Sc. student 2010-11