Research

Research Projects                                                      Publication list | Invited talk | Conferences attended

1. ^Industry (Harting) funded project "Contactless Connector" (06/2023-now)

2. ^Industry funded project "Microinvertor" (09/2023-now)

3. ^UKRI funded project “Underwater Energy Harvesting Networks” (4/2021 - 7/2021)  

4. ^TETF funded project Large Scale Indoor Wireless Power Transfer (5/2019 - 4/2022)  

5. ^KTP project “Low power sensors” (1/2018 - 12/2018)  

6. ^Innovate UK funded project “Underwater Energy Harvesting Enabled Smart Networks for Water Industry” (12/2017 - 11/2020)  

7. *Innovate UK funded project “Wireless Autonomous Rail Networked Sensor System (WARNSS)” (08/2014 - 05/2015)  

8. *Industry (Scotia Gas) funded project “Development of an Oscillating Airflow Energy Harvester” (05/2014 - 01/2015)

9. #EPSRC project “Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment (SPHERE)” (11/2013 - 08/2015)

10. *Technology Strategy Board (TSB) project “ENERGYMAN” (09/2013 - 11/2014)  

11. #Industry (Scotia Gas) funded project “Feasibility study of an airflow energy harvester for gas pipe applications” (02/2013 - 03/2013)  

12. *EU FP7 project “Low cost and low energy GNSS-based wireless tag for asset tracking and monitoring (CEWITT)” (05/2012 – 05/2014) 

13. #TSB project “Demonstration of a self-powered smoke detector for ducting systems” (10/2012 - 12/2012)

14. #EPSRC project “Next generation energy harvesting electronics: a holistic approach” (10/2011 - 03/2012)

15. #Industry (South East England Development Agency) funded project “Energy harvester for low speed air-flows” (02/2010 - 01/2011)

16. #EU FP7 project “Development of technology building blocks for structural health monitoring sensing devices in aeronautic (TRIADE)” (01/2009 - 12/2012)

17. #Industry (Jason Bruges Studio) funded project “Ropemaker vitrine artwork” (02/2008 - 11/2008)

18. ^PhD project “Methods of frequency tuning vibration-based micro-generators” (03/2006 - 10/2009)

19. #Industry funded project “Feasibility study of a MEMS resonant pressure sensor” (12/2005 - 02/2006)

  ^ as PI 

  * as Co-I 

  # as named researcher

Current PhD students: 

1. Ziyi Ran (since 09/2024)

2. Faham Syed (since 09/2024)

Current Master students: 

1. Xianghe Luo (since 09/2023)

3. Xun Li (since 09/2024)

Past Postdoc: 

1. Dr Liuqing Wang (01/2018 - 06/2019)

Past PhD students:

1. Dr Huihui Sun, Miniature Wind Energy Harvester (2012 - 2016)*

2. Dr Junjie Shi, Ferroelectret Materials for Energy Harvesting (2013 - 2017)*

3. Dr Kantida "Poy" Pancharoen, Hip Implant Energy Harvesting (10/2013 - 2018)*

4. Dr Cristina Alexandru, Methods of Extending Horizontal Transmission Distances in Inductive Wireless Charging for Low Power Applications (2017 - 2022)

5. Dr Jiajia Zhang (2018-2022)^

6. Dr Tamuno-Omie Gogo (2019-2024)

* Jointly supervised with Prof S. Beeby at the University of Southampton

^ Jointly supervised with Prof Y. Liu at the University of Exeter

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