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Reader in Digital Engineering

Research interests:

Next generation of Mobile networks (6G); machine learning in wireless networks; airborne and UAV networks; Digital twins; Internet-of-Things (IoT); self-organizing networks; Blockchain and Smart Contracts.

Professor

Research interests:

Laser-assisted nuclear decay spectroscopy (alpha/beta/gamma), radii and shapes of nuclei, radioactive ion beams, non-traditional fission studies.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Theory and modelling of photonic devices and subsystems.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Shape evolution and coexistence. Neutrinoless double beta decay.

Senior Lecturer, Deputy Chair of the Board of Studies for the School

Research interests:

Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Organization culture, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship Education.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Hadron physics, exotic particles (hexaquarks, pentaquarks, hybrids), photon beams, nuclear equation of state, nuclear medicine techniques.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Asteroseismology of A-F type stars. High-resolution spectroscopy of stars.

Professor of Communications

Research interests:

Wireless communications; turbo codes; MIMO; wireless network coding new waveforms.

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics

Research interests:

Magnetoelectrics; Spinwave dynamics; Polarised X-ray spectroscopy.

Emeritus Professor

Research interests:

Computational and theoretical models of magnetic materials with application to ultrafast magnetism, magnetic information storage, and biomagnetism.

Lecturer

Research interests:

Biomedical Engineering, Medical robotics; Minimally invasive surgery; medical devices; Soft robotics; medical biology, Bioinformatics analysis.

Professor

Research interests:

6G networks; non-orthogonal multiple access; Cell-free massive MIMO, Machine learning-driven wireless networks, Sensing and communications, Communications for AI, Semantic communications, WiFi networks.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Magnetically confined fusion plasmas and reactor studies; experimental studies of plasma turbulence; diagnostic development; simulation validation.

Professor

irene.damico@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 322215

MS/207, 2nd Floor Information Centre

Research interests:

Entanglement, quantum computing, quantum thermodynamics, spin transport and dynamics, many-body physics, density functional theory.

Professor

Research interests:

Singing science and pedagogy; voice and musical performance analysis and perception.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Plasma science and technology; Plasma propulsion; Ion sources.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Magnetically confined fusion plasmas and reactor studies; computational study of tokamak confinement and small scale instabilities; theory, simulation and software development.

Chair in Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Research interests:

Theoretical description of low-energy properties of nuclei, Nuclear Density Functional Theory, nuclei far from stability, nuclear collective states.

Lecturer in Clinical Engineering

Research interests:

Bionics - developing intelligent, low-cost bionic limbs by studying nature

Digital health - combining patient data with physical laws of the world around us to provide decision support dashboards and tools for healthcare professionals

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Magnetic materials and nanodevices, spin dynamics, atomistic modelling, spin transport, ultrafast magnetism, high performance computing.

Emeritus Professor

Research interests:

RF/microwaves; compact atomic clocks; low phase noise oscillators;ultra-fast optoelectronics.

Chair of Condensed Matter Theory

Research interests:

Theoretical description of quantum criticality and spin-dependent phenomena in 2D Dirac materials and their heterostructures. Development of analytical SO(5) quantum diagrammatic techniques and real-space numerical methodologies for large-scale quantum-mechanical simulations of materials with multi billions of orbitals.

Professor Kieran Gibson

Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Integrated Infrastructure) / Professor

Research interests:

Magnetically confined fusion plasmas and reactor studies; experimental divertor physics; diagnostic development.

Professor (Research)

Head of Communication Technologies Research Group

Co-Director of York - Zhejiang Lab for Cognitive Radio and Green Communications

Guest Professor Zhejiang University

Research interests:

Dynamic spectrum access; application of artificial intelligence to wireless systems; 6G communications; vehicular networks; communications from high altitude platforms; non-terrestrial networks.

Professor

Research interests:

Computational neuroscience; spiking neural networks and neuromorphic computing; neural signal processing.

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Research interests:

Carbon-based nano-technologies (graphene), quantum magnetism and physics at the interdisciplinary interface.

EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow

Research interests:

Developing software, theory and methods for predictive materials simulations; novel applications of materials modelling.

Deputy Head of School (Teaching)

Research interests:

Matter in extreme conditions, high-pressure materials, high strain-rate material deformation and failure, X-ray laser experiments and large scale atomistic simulation.

Senior Lecturer in Engineering and Management

Research interests:

Engineering Management, Engineering education, Social Enterprise, Innovation and Commercialisation, Strategy Management, Sustainability in Pharma and medical devices companies, and Computational and Mathematical Modelling.

Lecturer in Robotics and Control

Lecturer

Research interests:

Management of Technology, Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Organisational Behaviour,Operations Management.

Professor

Research interests:

Exotic nuclei, radiation detector development for societal applications and medical imaging.

Head of Intelligent Systems and Nano-science Research Group

Research interests:

Molecular diagnostics devices; Healthcare technology; Molecular and biomolecular electronics; Bionanotechnology.

Professor

Research interests:

Spatial audio; music technology; immersive and interactive audio systems; audio for virtual and augmented reality.

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests:

Electron microscopy, structure determination and electronic properties of energy and 2D materials.

Reader

Research interests:

Machine-type intelligence for 6G communications; Distributed AI communications for future connected autonomy; semantic communications.

Professor

Research interests:

Nanophotonics, Silicon Photonics, Optical Biosensors, Metasurfaces, Semiconductor Nanofabrication.

Professor

Research interests:

Nanophysics, Nanostructured Biomaterials, Quantitative Electron Microscopy, Magnetic Nanomaterials, Raman Spectroscopy.

Dr Rupesh Kumar

Lecturer

Research interests:

Quantum Technologies.

Professor

Research interests:

Nuclear astrophysics.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Plasma, lasers, Ultra-intense laser plasma interactions, QED, laboratory astrophysics, bright X-ray sources.

Research Officer

Research interests:

Conventional and Environmental Electron microscopy, Nanomaterials characterisation and nanoscale phase transformations.

Professor / Director of the Nanocentre

Research interests:

Spintronics, magnetism.

Professor

Research interests:

Physics of life; biophysics; biological physics; single-molecule biophysics; optical microscopy.

Chair in Experimental Quantum Communications

Co-Director of York Centre for Quantum Technologies (YCQT)

Research interests:

Quantum Technologies.

Professor

Research interests:

Predictive materials modelling for applications in energy, electronics and catalysis.

Professor

Research interests:

Wireless communications; resource management; terrestrial radio systems; underwater acoustic networks.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Renewable energy, solar PV, power semiconductor devices, energy storage.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Laser-plasma acceleration; high field physics at the quantum limit; plasma-nuclear physics; radiation sources for applications.

Professor of Sound and Music Computing

University Research Champion for Creativity

damian.murphy@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 32 3221

GE/101E, Genesis 6, Science Park XR Stories, Guildhall.

Research interests:

Virtual acoustic modelling; auralisation; spatial audio; music technology; XR content; creative industries R&D.

Director of Teaching and Learning (Engineering)

Research interests:

Sensors, Advanced Materials, Computational Science, Energy, Biomedical Technologies.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Molecular Modelling; DNA and Proteins.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Experimental nuclear physics of exotic nuclei, ionising radiation detectors for fundamental science and societal applications of nuclear physics.

Reader

Research interests:

Inertial Confinement Fusion, Radiation Hydrodynamics, Laser-plasma interactions, shock wave physics, hohlraum physics, Laser Fusion Energy, modelling and experiments.

Lecturer

Research interests:

Handheld diagnostic devices, organ-on-a-chip, bio-sensors, Micro-Nano fabrication, Bionanotechnology, MEMS, Spintronics-MEMS integration, CMOS integrated sensors, Nano-mechanical sensors, opto-electronic devices, semiconductor thin films, PV materials.

Reader in Electronics

Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow

Research interests:

Biomedical engineering; virtual environments; human vision and locomotion; 3D displays.

Professor

Research interests:

Experimental nuclear physics of exotic nuclei.

Senior Lecturer

Chair, Staff Student Liaison Committee

SWENG project co-ordinator

3rd year project co-ordinator

Research interests:

Computational electromagnetics; antenna design; RF MEMS bioelectromagnetics.

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Research interests:

Robotics and mechatronics; autonomous systems; navigation sensing and control.

Professor

Research interests:

Nanomaterials, surface science, 2D materials, nanoparticles, organic spintronics.

Lecturer in Audio Systems Engineering

Professor

Research interests:

Development of Density Functional Theory software, algorithms and applications, with a focus on predicting the structural/dynamical properties of matter.

Senior Lecturer in Biophysics

Research interests:

Development of single-molecule fluorescence and advanced optical technologies for probing protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions related to neurodegeneration.

Professor

Research interests:

Kinetic theory of laser-produced plasmas. Simulations of inertial confinement fusion plasmas (ICF) plasmas. Theory and simulation of laser-produced quantum electrodynamic (QED)-plasmas.

Research interests:

Image and video processing; pattern analysis.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Medical applications of electromagnetic waves; dielectrics; interference; shielding.

Head of School

Research interests:

Intelligent medical devices; interpretable “white box” machine learning; biomedical engineering.

Professor

timothy.spiller@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 32 2254

MS/215, 2nd Floor Information Centre

Research interests:

Quantum Technologies.

Emeritus Professor

Research interests:

Capillary laser imaging of plasmas.

Emeritus Professor

Research interests:

Surface science, nanomaterials, spintronics, low-energy electron-solid interactions and electron microscopy.

Reader in Intelligent Systems

Research interests:

Bio-inspired hardware; fault tolerance; adaptive and reconfigurable systems; many-core systems and Network-on-Chip.

Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research / Professor

Research interests:

Nanothermal transport, spintronics.

Professor

Research interests:

Bio-inspired systems and technology; neuromorphic hardware; unconventional computing; computational (nano)materials; fault tolerance; embedded AI/ML.

Professor in Digital Electronics

Research interests:

Evolvable computation; evolutionary robotics; Evolvable hardware; autonomous systems.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Thin film and fine particle magnetism.

Professor

Research interests:

Fusion, tokamak science, plasma physics, microwave engineering.

Professor

Research interests:

Plasma science and technology; plasma chemistry and plasma-surface interactions and modifications for applications in microchip manufacturing and thin-film deposition for the hydrogen economy; development and use of advanced laser and optical diagnostics.

Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow, Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Nanotechnology, 2D materials, Photonics.

Professor

Research interests:

Hadron and nuclear physics with intense electromagnetic beams (Jefferson Laboratory, USA). Medical physics (new methods and instrumentation for PET imaging and protontherapy).

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Biological physics, holographic microscopy, physics of cell motility.

Professor

Research interests:

Matter at extreme conditions of density, temperature and irradiance including laboratory astrophysics and fusion plasmas.

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Ultrafast magnetism: experimental exploration of ultimate speed of magnetic data process and storage by time-resolved techniques.

Professor

Research interests:

Nanophysics and advanced materials; electron vortex beams and novel electron microscopy techniques.

Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow

Research interests:

Hadronic physics, Hyperons and spectroscopy of Hadrons with intense electromagnetic beams.

Reader

Research interests:

Signal processing, communications, underwater acoustics, underwater navigation, sonar.

Lecturer in Microengineering

Research interests:

Micro-/nano-technology; intelligent sensors; 2D materials; resonators; energy harvesters; nonlinear dynamics for sensing and computation.

Lecturer

Research interests:

Electric Vehicles; Electrical Machines; Wireless Charging; Artificial Intelligence.

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Robotics

jihong.zhu@york.ac.uk

Research laboratory P/DF/004

Research interests:

Robotics, Imitation Learning/Learning from Demonstrations, Vision-based Contro.