Research Introductions Zoomposia

The College of Science & Engineering has grown significantly in recent years, but with the lockdown our new staff have had fewer opportunities to make new links and raise their profile. The Research Introductions Zoomposia was set up to help do just that.

Each Zoomposium presents 2-3 new researchers. Each presentation is five minutes and there may be questions after each session. Recordings last up to 40 minutes – if you haven’t joined in the Zoomposia so far, you can catch up with the presentations here.

To register for upcoming Zoomposia, please email scieng-submit@glasgow.ac.uk.

 

 

Zoomposium 37: Tuesday 8 May (14:00-15:00)

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:41:00 BST

Dr Claire Marie CISOWSKI: ‘Light beyond two dimensions’

Dr Claire BOURKE: ‘Immunobiology of human malnutrition’

Dr Helen MULVANA: ‘Development of novel ultrasound technologies towards earlier disease diagnosis and non-invasive treatments’

Zoomposium 36: 11 March 2024

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:26:00 GMT

Dr Carlos GARCIA NUNEZ: ‘Tribotronics: a new concept describing the electromechanical coupling between semiconductors and triboelectric devices’

Dr Tijana VULETIC: ‘Improving Computational Support for Design Ideation’

Dr Nikela PAPADOPOULOU: ‘Optimization strategies on the software stack for high-performance, sustainable AI’

Space-themed Zoomposium 4: 28 February 2024

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:55:00 GMT

Dr Krzysztof BZDYK: ‘Experimental Investigation of Autophage Rocket Propulsion Systems’

Dr Christopher OSBORNE: ‘Non-equilibrium Radiative Transfer for Isolated Solar Structures’

Ms Gemma MILNE: ‘Political Imaginations of New Space startups’

InterCollege Health Inequalities Zoomposium: 6 December 2023

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:47:00 GMT

Prof Jon COOPER: ‘Health Inequalities Research in COSE’

Miss Penelope LAYCOCK: ‘Health Inequalities, Substance Use and Trauma’

Prof Rich MITCHELL: ‘Health Inequalities as a College Future theme in MVLS. What does it mean? What are we doing and why?’

Responsible AI & Technology Zoomposium: 9 October 2023

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:15:00 BST

Prof Simone STUMPF: 'Human-in-the-loop machine learning for responsible AI'

Dr Mark WONG: 'Racial justice and fairness in AI through co-design'

Dr Charlie PEEVERS: 'AI development as equitable: law, justice and regulation'

Zoomposium 35: Tuesday 26 September (11:00-12:00)

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:35:00 BST

Dr Haotian CHEN: ‘Stretchable electronics in restoring human sensorimotor system’

Dr Marko TOROS: ‘Levitated optomechanics, matter-wave interferometry, and quantum optics as tools for imaging, sensing, and fundamental physics’

Dr Jiabao XU: 'Single-cell toolkits for diagnosis and investigation of unexplained chronic fatigue syndromes'

Zoomposium 34: 20 June 2023

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:54:00 BST

Dr Chunxiao HU: ‘Microfluidics and Biosensors for drug screening and early diagnosis’

Dr Mingshu WANG: ‘Geospatial data science for urban systems’

Dr Sharon DING: ‘Designing Technologies for Everyday Healthy Living’

Nuclear industry applications of physics-Zoomposium1 - 30 May

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:09:00 GMT

Dr David F. MAHON: ‘Pushing the boundaries of radiation detection for nuclear industry applications’

Dr Guangliang YANG: ‘Application of muon imaging for monitoring nuclear waste and civil engineering infrastructures’

Dr Richard GRAY: ‘Dose rate and spectroscopy where no detector has gone before’

Zoomposium 33: 19 May 2023

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:26:00 GMT

Dr Morteza AMJADI: ‘Skin-Interfacing Sensors and Soft Robotic Systems based on Nanocomposite Materials’

Dr Mario GONZALEZ JIMENEZ: ‘Identifying molecular indicators of pathological processes with Raman Imaging’

Dr Naveen KUMAR: 'Demystifying the biomolecules interactions with more-than-Moore CMOS devices'

Zoomposium 32: 3 March 2023

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:09:00 GMT

Dr Edmond S. L HO: 'Early Prediction and Classification of Neurological Disorders from Skeletal Motion Data'

Dr Jean-Baptiste BAYLE: 'Preparing for space-based gravitational-wave detection'

Dr Liam WILSON: 'A Chemical-nose Receptor Array for the Diagnosis of Liver Disease'

Zoomposium 31: 9 February 2023

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:25:00 GMT

Dr Pejman SAEGHE: ‘Media consumption in the metaverse’

Dr Mahmoud Wagih: 'Radio Frequency (RF)-Enabled Sustainable Electronics'

Dr Arianna Gea Pagano: 'Discrete modelling and multi-scale experimental investigation of geomaterials for application to environmental problems'

Zoomposium 30: 20 January 2023

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:14:00 GMT

Dr Lina MOHJAZI: ‘Green and Self-Sustainable Wireless Communication Systems’

Prof. Stephen SWEENEY: ‘Novel Semiconductor Photonic Devices and Applications: Energy, Comms, Sensing and Space’

Dr Dimitra ACHILLOPOULOU: ‘Adaptation of structures based on metrics’

Healthcare Technologies-themed Zoomposium 2: 14 December 2022

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:18:00 GMT

Dr Negin GHAHREMANI AREKHLOO: ‘Magnetomyography Vs. Electromyography’

Dr Miguel PINEDA: 'Sugar is not just for tea! Moving towards glycan-based therapies and biomaterials'

Dr Mark SCULLION: ‘Nanophotonics for sensing, trapping and diagnostics’

Blockchain-themed Zoomposium 1: 2 November 2022

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:12:00 BST

Prof Lei ZHANG: 'Blockchain-enabled Privacy-preserving Data Sharing and Trading'

Prof Cathy Yi-Suan CHEN: ‘Blockchain adoption and Winners take all’

Healthcare Technologies-themed Zoomposium: 20 September 2022

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:38:00 BST

Dr Donata IANDOLO: ‘Bioelectronics: an innovative approach to communicate with biology’

Dr Stephen LINDSAY: 'What does participation mean in digital healthcare design?’

Dr Affar KARIMULLAH: ‘Application of Plasmonics, Metamaterials and Photonics for sensing and spectroscopy’

Zoomposium 29: 31 August 2022

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:36:00 BST

Dr Oana DOBRE: ‘3D protein-based hydrogels for tissue regeneration applications’

Dr Wenjuan SONG: ‘Superconducting Technology for Green and Efficient Transportation System and Electric Network’

Dr Eky FEBRIANTO: ‘Physics-informed digital twin for resilient infrastructures’

Space-themed Zoomposium 3: 30 June 2022

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:16:00 BST

Dr Gilles BAILET: ‘Patents in space engineering, from opportunity opening new possibilities to a strategic necessity to protect our industries’

Dr Sargam MULAY: ‘Heating of plasma during solar flares’

Dr Mark SYMES: ‘Plenty of Space in Chemistry?’

Zoomposium 28: 9 June 2022

Tue, 17 May 2022 12:30:00 BST

Dr Ariel RAMIREZ TORRES: ‘Multi-scale modelling of heterogeneous media: Growth, remodelling, and non-locality’

Dr Gul CALIKLI: ‘Improving Software Developers’ Judgement: Understanding and Mitigating their Cognitive Biases’

GES-themed Zoomposium: 13 May 2022

Wed, 04 May 2022 13:31:00 BST

Dr Cristina PERSANO: ‘Deep geothermal energy: how can geoscience help?’

Dr Ziqi LI: ‘Explainable AI for geospatial data’

Dr Alejandra VOVIDES: 'Roots of cooperation'

Zoomposium 27: 29 April 2022

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:18:00 BST

Dr Guanchen Li: ‘Multiscale modelling of transport phenomena in electrochemical devices'

Dr Yiji Lu: 'Clean Energy Future'

Dr Lauritz Thamsen: ‘Let’s Benefit from Tons of Data... Without Having That Eat The World’

Space-themed Zoomposium 2: 5 April 2022

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:09:00 GMT

Dr Timothy PEACOCK: ‘The Sky(lab) is Falling: Global fear and psychological space security’

Dorota BUDZYN: ‘Lunar dust, its impact on hardware, and compliant mechanisms as implicit dust mitigation technology’

Aine O'BRIEN: ‘Searching for life on Mars – Sometimes it really is a God-awful small affair’

Water-themed Zoomposium 1: 4 March 2022

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:03:00 GMT

Prof Cecilia TORTAJADA: 'Global water megatrends'

Dr Martin LLEWELLYN: 'Seawater environmental DNA monitoring to identify and predict planktonic threats to salmon aquaculture’

Dr Stephanie CONNELLY: ‘Sustainable decentralised sewage treatment to mitigate methane emissions’

Zoomposium 26: 15 February 2022

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:28:00 GMT

Dr Jethro BROWELL: ‘Forecasting for decision-marking under uncertainty’

Dr Gramoz GORANCI:‘Novel Algorithmic Frameworks for Dynamic Problems on Graphs’

Dr Sakineh FOTOUHI: ‘Next generation of high-performance impact resistant composites with visibility of damage’

Zoomposium 25: 26 January 2022

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:24:00 GMT

Dr Maggie CREED: 'The effect of sediment on flood hazard and risk in large dynamic river systems’

Dr Angelos MARNERIDES: 'Cybersecurity in next generation mission-critical systems’

Prof Sondipon ADHIKARI: ‘A hollow future for engineering structures: Design and analysis principles’

Space-themed Zoomposium 1: 20 January 2022

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:55:00 GMT

Dr Kevin WORRALL: ‘Introduction to the Space and Exploration Technology Group'

Dr Thomas ELSDEN: ‘Vibrations in Near-Earth Space’

Dr Onur CELIK: ‘Orbital Dynamics of Solar Reflectors for Space-based Solar Power’

Zoomposium 24: 15 December 2021

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:12:00 GMT

Dr Marwa MAHMOUD: 'Vision-based AI for Human & Animal Behaviour Understanding'

Dr Katarzyna KOWAL: 'Fluids: from Geophysics to Engineering'

Dr Ahmad TAHA: ‘What You Want for Tomorrow is What You Do Today: Our role as a community!’

Zoomposium 23: 7 December 2021

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:36:00 GMT

Dr Jake LEVER: 'Teaching Computers to Read so You Don't Have To'

Dr Sammy GRIFFIN: 'Insight into a Martian Volcano?'

Dr Sam BAYLISS: ‘Quantum engineering with molecular systems’

COP26-themed Zoomposium 2: 1 September 2021

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:54:00 BST

Prof Ana BASIRI:'Time To Go On A Digital Diet: How Clean is Our Digital Lifestyle?'

Dr Esther PAPIES:‘The Psychology of How (not) to Describe Plant-based Foods’

Prof Wim VANDERBAUWHEDE: ‘Towards zero-carbon computing: the need for low carbon and sustainable computing’

COP26-themed Zoomposium 1: 26 August 2021

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:02:00 BST

Dr Angela DAISLEY:'Making Amonia Sustainably'

Dr John MacDONALD:'Atmospheric CO2 Mineralisation'

Dr Ian WATSON:'Bioenergy Routes towards Mitigating Climate Chaos'

Zoomposium 22: 25 August 2021

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:23:00 BST

Dr Yehia ELKHATIB: ‘Would Anyone Think of the Application Deployers?’

Dr Luke DALY: ‘An atoms eye view of the formation of the solar system’

Dr Charchit KUMAR: ‘Contact mechanics of bio-inspired systems’

Zoomposium 21: 23 June 2021

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:08:00 BST

Dr YING-QI WONG: 'Magma storage in the Earth’s crust: a mushy perspective'

Dr CAI LADD: 'How plants, people and the physical environment shape coastal landscapes'

Dr ANNEMARIE PICKERSGILL: 'Looking for life in all the wrong places…'

Zoomposium 20: 24 May 2021

Wed, 12 May 2021 16:37:00 BST

Dr RICHARD STAFF: 'Radiocarbon dating: for archaeology, for palaeo-environment, for fun!'

Dr NICKI WHITEHOUSE: 'Long term human-environment systems in the Anthropocene'

Dr ADETUNMISE DADA: 'Developing quantum technologies for next generation communication devices'

Zoomposium 19: 6 May 2021

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:50:00 BST

Dr MARK MCGILL: ‘Future Mixed Realities: From Productivity to Passenger Experiences’

Dr KAVEH DELFANAZARI: ‘Hybrid Quantum Devices & Quantum Nano-Engineering’

Dr CIARAN MCCREESH: ‘Constraint Optimisation Algorithms You Can Trust’

Zoomposium 18: 19 April 2021

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:30:00 GMT

Dr SOURIT BHATTACHARYA: ‘The British Empire, Food Crisis, and Public’

Dr ILYENA HIRSKYJ-DOUGLAS: ‘Animal-Computer Interaction’

Dr JUNLONG SHANG: ‘Rock Mechanics and Geomechanics for Underground Space and Earth Resources’

Zoomposium 17: 19 March 2021

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:51:00 GMT

Dr HYESOP SHIN: 'Each and everyone of us have different mobility patterns: the application of microscopic simulations in urban studies'

Dr JONATHAN GRIZOU: 'Tools for creativity: Can we design tools that assist humans in their creative processes?'

Prof FELICITY CALLARD: School of Geographical and Earth Sciences: 'Long COVID'

Zoomposium 16: 16 February 2021

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:36:00 GMT

Dr MU NIU: Nonparametric regression on manifolds of point clouds and Modelling group animal movement'

Dr GIORGOS GEORGIOU: 'THz Qubits for Quantum Nano-Electronics’'

Dr MARIA CHIARA BRAIDOTTI: ‘Photonic waves for fundamental physical studies’

Zoomposium 15: 28 January 2021

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:04:00 GMT

Dr FINLAY WALTON:‘Wirelessly powered implantable neural optogenetic devices for the treatment of neurological disorders’

Dr DEZONG ZHAO: ‘Towards safe and trustworthy autonomous systems’

Dr ROISIN BUCKLEY: ‘Offshore wind turbine foundation design: insights from recent research and routes toward improved offshore site characterization’

Zoomposium 14: 15 January 2021

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:30:00 GMT

Dr ANASTASIA IOANNOU: 'Energy system optimisation towards net zero'

Dr JOSHUA FRANZ EINSLE: 'Where are the Minerals? Machine Learning tools for multiscale energy critical mineral problems'

Dr JOSEPH CAMERON: 'π-conjugated materials for single molecule electronics'

Zoomposium 13: 11 December 2020

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:03:00 GMT

Prof DELPHINE GOURDON: 'Mechanobiology and tribology of materials'

Dr WILLIAM PETTERSSON: 'Algorithms on graphs: solving all the problems'

Dr CAROLINE MUELLENBROICH: '3-photon microscopy and optogenetic stimulation deep inside the heart'

Zoomposium 12: 27 November 2020

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:45:00 GMT

Dr JEFF KETTLE: 'Improving the sustainability of electronic materials'

Dr RAIR MACEDO: 'Putting a Spin on Electronics'

Dr ALICE MACENTE: 'To see or not to see: X-ray Imaging in Science'

Zoomposium 11: 10 November 2020

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:31:00 GMT

Dr ERIFYLI TSAGKARI: 'The interaction between biofilms and flow conditions in water systems'

Dr ENRIC GRUSTAN GUTIERREZ: 'Electrospray Atomisation for Space and Beyond'

Dr HUBIN ZHAO: 'Wearable Intelligent Neuroimaging for Health'

Zoomposium 10: 28 October 2020

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:15:00 GMT

Dr BERNHARD SCHMIDT: 'Polymer Chemistry in Aqueous Environment and Polymer Hybrid Materials'

Dr MIZA MOREAU: 'From paricular to general: social and environmental prospects of small-scale appropriation of urban space'

Dr OANA ANDREI: 'Temporal Usage Analytics for Interactive Systems'

Zoomposium 9: 7 October 2020

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:48:00 BST

Dr JOHN MOREAU: 'Less mess, less stress: autotrophic design for gold mining waste water bioremediation'

Dr CIARA KEATING: 'Our focus determines our reality - fundamental microbiology is the missing link'

Dr ROBERT BENNETT: 'Designer Quantum Optics'

Zoomposium 8: 24 September 2020

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:40:00 BST

Dr JOSE CANO REYES: 'Moving Deep Learning to the Edge'

Dr NICOLA BELL: 'Chemical Recycling of Plastics by Catalytic Depolymerisation'

Dr VIHAR GEORGIEV: 'Device Modelling Group: know-how and capabilities'

Zoomposium 7: 3 September 2020

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:20:00 BST

Dr LITO MICHALA: 'The Internet of Things attacking The Cloud'

SARAH CURRIER: 'The Centre for Sustainable Solutions'

Dr ANDREW FEENEY: ' Establishing adaptive ultrasonics'

Zoomposium 6: 29 July 2020

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:01:00 BST

Dr MOHAMED KHAMIS: 'Privacy-respecting ubiquitous systems'

Dr SHAN KUMAR: 'Multifunctional Materials Enabled by Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering'

Dr JESKO KOHNKE: 'Natural product biosynthesis and engineering'

Zoomposium 5: 14 July 2020

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:46:00 BST

Dr MOHAMMAD FOTOUHI: 'High performance and smart composite structures'

Dr REBECA GONZALES-CABALEIRO: 'Is it possible to engineer biology as we do with mechanics?'

Dr PRASHANT SAXENA: 'Mechanics of soft solids and structures'

Zoomposium 4: 29 June 2020

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:21:00 BST

Dr LAIA VILA-NADAL: 'Metal oxides are great, what is next?'

Dr TIMOTHY MOORSOM: 'Topological Plasmonics: Tying light in knots'

Prof ANA BASIRI: 'Indicative Data Science: Extracting Information from Biased and Missing Data'

Zoomposium 3: 9 June 2020

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:07:00 BST

Prof ROY VELLAISAMY: 'Intelligent sensors for food safety, water quality monitoring and healthcare applications'

Dr CISE UNLUER: 'Development of Novel Binders and Sustainable Construction Products'

Dr MASSIMO VASSALLI: 'Cell biophysics: methods and applications'

Zoomposium 2: 28 May 2020

Mon, 04 May 2020 16:47:00 BST

Prof JANINE ILLIAN: 'What's the point? Applications of realistically complex point process models'

Dr KUMAR SHANMUGAM: 'Multifunctional Materials Enabled by Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering'

Prof NIGEL MOTTRAM: 'Anisotropy: from microfluidics to flocking birds'

Zoomposium 1: 4 May 2020

Mon, 04 May 2020 09:56:00 BST

Dr SIMON CANDELARESI: 'Magnetic Field Topology in Plasmas'

Dr FANI DELIGIANNI: 'Building reliable systems on unreliable neurophysiological data'

Dr BEN SWALLOW: 'Bayesian inference in complex biotic systems'