Membership
Details of our core members, research staff, visiting staff and current PhD students
Academic staff (Core members)
- Prof K T V Grattan, OBE, FREng (Royal Academy of Engineering – George Daniels Professor of Scientific Instrumentation, Director of the Centre)
- Prof T Sun, OBE (Professor of Sensor Engineering, Faiveley Brecknell Willis/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair)
- Prof B M A Rahman (Professor of Photonics)
- Prof S H Khan (Professor of Instrumentation and Sensors)
- Dr F Surre (Lecturer in Optical Systems)
- Dr Weiping Wu (George Daniels Lecturer of Instrumentation and Sensor Systems)
Research staff
Dr M Fabian (Research Fellow in Sensors)
Research field: Fibre-optic sensors for industrial applications
Contact: matthias.fabian.1@city.ac.uk
Dr Hien Nguyen (Research Fellow in Sensors)
Research field: Chemical sensors, Optical fibre sensors, Molecularly imprinted polymers, Fluorescent conjugated polymers.
Contact: hien.nguyen@city.ac.uk
Dr Miodrag Vidakovic (Post-doctoral Fellow in Sensors)
Research field: Design, development and evaluation of Fibre-optic based sensors for industrial applications
Contact: Miodrag.Vidakovic.1@city.ac.uk
Dr Y Chen (Post-doctoral Fellow in Sensors)
Research field: Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) based sensing devices
Contact: ye.chen@city.ac.uk
Dr Bruno Rente (Post-doctoral Fellow in Sensors)
Research field: Fibre optic sensors for industrial applications
Contact: bruno.rente@city.ac.uk
Dr Souvik Ghosh (Post-doctoral Fellow in Photonics and Sensors)
Research field: Fibre optic bio-chemical sensors, integrated waveguides, plasmonics
Contact: souvik.ghosh@city.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Silver (RAEng IC Post-doctoral Research Fellow)
Research field: TBC
Contact: TBC
Visiting staff
Dr Colum McCague (Visiting Research Fellow)
Professor Richard Scott (Consultant, Structural Engineer)
Contact: richard.scott.1@city.ac.uk
Prof David Monk (Consultant, Optical and Telecommunications Engineer)
Prof David Johnson, FREng (Consultant, Railway Engineer)
Dr Len Rogers (Consultant, Assent Engineering Ltd)
Current PhD Students in Photonics Modelling Group
Mr Aamir Gulistan
Research field: Reduced mode coupling and nonlinear interaction in optical fibres
Contact: aamir.gulistan@city.ac.uk
Mr Sunny Chugh
Research field: Integrated optics, silicon photonics, machine learning, numerical simulations
Contact: sunny.chugh@city.ac.uk
Mr Junchao Song
Research field: Phase change materials, silicon photonics
Contact: junchao.song@city.ac.uk
Miss Sneha Verma
Research field: Nano-photonic devices, fibre optics
Contact: sneha.verma@city.ac.uk
Current PhD Students in Sensors Group
Mr Kasun Dissanayake
Research field: 2D material based fibre optic sensors, long period grating (LPG)
Contact: kasun.dissanayake@city.ac.uk
Mr Rahul Kumar
Research field: Sensors based on RareEarth doped Upconverting Nanoparticles
Contact: Rahul.kumar@city.ac.uk
Miss Tania Grandal
Research field: TBC
Contact: TBC
Mr Jan Werner
Research field: TBC
Contact: TBC
