A Steering Committee of senior academics from across Cambridge University supports the Management Team in the shaping of the Sensor CDT. The research interests and expertise among the members of the Management Team and Steering Committee cover the whole range of sensor related research, from technology, via middleware, to applications.
Current members of the Steering Committee
Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig is Director of Partnership Development at the Maxwell Centre. A physicist by training, who in her current role delivers a broad programme of industry-academia interactions and collaborations involving Physical Sciences and Technology research at the University of Cambridge.
Axel Zeitler is Professor of Microstructure Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and leads the Terahertz Applications Group. His expertise lies in terahertz spectroscopy and imaging as well as materials characterisation, non-destructive imaging, industrial sensor applications.
Ian Wassell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He is course director for the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science (ACS) and for Part III of the Computer Science Tripos (CST). He has broad interests in the area of wireless communication, including radio propagation, the physical layer and applications such as sensor networks and the Internet of Things. He also conducts investigations concerning sparse data representation (e.g., compressive sampling) and image classification.
Lara Allen is CEO of the Centre for Global Equality, a civil society organisation that evolves innovative solutions to global challenges through inclusive innovation. She also leads the Inclusive Innovation Programme at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge. She is an experienced international development practitioner who has worked as a consultant, employee and volunteer with grassroots Community Based Organisations and national and international NGOs in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ireland and the UK..
Ljiljana Fruk is a Reader in BioNano Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Her research lies in Enzyme-inspried cataysis, drug nanocarriers for pancreatic cancer, theanostic probes for senescent cells, biopolymer nanocomposites, multifunctional linker sytems for nanomaterial (bio)functionalisation.
Phillip Stanley-Marbell is Professor of Physical Computation in the Department of Engineering. His research exploits information about the physical world to make more efficient computing systems that interact with nature and involves equal parts of equations, proofs, circuits, and hardware prototypes
Pietro Cicuta is Professor at the Department of Physics, Head of Biological and Soft Systems and Chair of IOP Biological Physics group. His current research interests revolve around three main areas of funding: regulation of gene expression in bacteria; understanding synchronisation of motile cilia in biological tissues; controlling the self assembly of lipid based systems, aiming for new functionality.
Raquel Costa is the Course Manager for the MPhil in Biotechnology at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. With a background in Chemical Engineering (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2008), Raquel has worked on research and lecturing capacities before joining the MPhil in Biotechnology. She has a longstanding interest in the interface between universities and the labour market, and she has also worked as an analyst in a Higher Education setting supporting the development of new programmes.
Viv Lindo is Senior Director in the Analytical Sciences function in Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca. His major interest is in physiochemical and structural characterisation of complex biologic molecules, mass spectrometry, protein chemisty and proteomics.
Student representatives
Mohammed Alawami (2019 cohort) has a background in Biology, Biophysics and Nanotechnology. He is interested in diagnostics and single molecule sensing. He is doing his PhD in solid state nanopore sensing in the Keyser Lab at the Cavendish laboratory. His research focus on detecting nucleic acids and proteins, and mapping single-stranded DNA damage using nanopore sensing.
Anne-Pia Marty (2020 cohort) has a background in Natural Sciences (biology, physics, maths, data analysis and chemistry), and public policy. She is currently in the 3rd year of her PhD.
Eleni Papafilippou (2022 cohort) has a background in Biomedical Engineering and is currently in the first year of her PhD
Juliana Ferraro (2023 cohort) comes from a background in Chemical Engineering and is currently pursuing her MRes.
