Publications
Aitchison, Callum, Buckle, Roman, Ch'ng, Alvin, Clarke, Christian, Malley, Jacob and Halak, Basel (2020) On the integration of physically unclonable functions into ARM TrustZone security technology. In 2020 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD). IEEE. 4 pp . (doi:10.1109/ECCTD49232.2020.9218417).
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 7904193279
PhD, BEng, MIET, MIEEE
- https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Zh3BFMcAAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-wagih/
- Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton
- Assistant Professor (Proleptic Lecturer in Implantable Electronics) at the University of Glasgow
- UK Intelligence Community Research Fellow at UofG; Royal Academy of Engineering | Office of the Chief Science Adviser for National Security.
- IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Technical Committees Affiliate Member.
"My interests are in applied Antenna Engineering and RF/Microwave Techniques. In research, I address electronic sustainability challenges through RF sensing, RF power transfer, and green RF electronics. I am also passionate about RF engineering education and research communication for attracting more students to bridge the skills gap in the RF industry"
Mahmoud received his EEE BEng (First Class Hons.) in September 2018, and his award-winning PhD in Rectenna Design in April 2021, from the University of Southampton. He previously worked as an undergraduate and postgraduate Research Assistant, at the University of Southampton (UK and Malaysia) on industrial collaborations and research projects (Intel; EPSRC Platform Grant), as a Researcher Co-Investigator on Safeguard a £49.9k EPSRC-SPRINT project, and has worked on consultancy projects (ECS Partners Ltd.) in 2017-2021. He was an EU-EnABLES funded PhD student from 2018 to 2020. He was a Hardware Verification Engineering Intern, in 2018, and a Research Intern, in 2020, at Arm Ltd., UK.
He has been PI/Co-I on projects worth over £370k, and has published over 70 journal and conference papers in leading IEEE and high-IF publications. He holds a Intelligence Community Research Fellowship on the topic of RF-enabled energy harvesting, and is s currently with the University of Glasgow as a Prolpetic Lecturer (Assitant Professor) and UK IC Fellow. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
Awards and Honours:
- Best PhD in Europe in Antennas and Propagation "Per-Simon Kildal Award", European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), for a PhD awarded in 2020 and 2021, presented at the flagship European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
- Winner of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation Video Contest, 2022, for the best video based on a published IEEE OJAP article (out of >110 papers accepted/published in 2021).
- International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award, 2022. Awarded at the URSI Atlantic / Asia-Pacific Radio Science Meeting for the work on Phase-Accurate Analytical Modelling of Single-Wire Transmission Lines.
- Best Paper Award (1st Place), at PowerMEMS 2021 international conference. Received for the paper "Textile-Based Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting and Storage using Ultra-Compact Rectennas with High Effective-to-Physical Area Ratio".
- Young Engineer of the Year Finalist, TechWorks, 2021, the award publicly celebrates and promotes the efforts of young professionals at the early stages of their careers.
- Dean's Award, Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences 2021, recognizing an Early Career Researcher who has demonstrated excellent performance and an exceptional contribution beyond expectations.
- Doctoral College Best of Faculty Research Award, selected from all the School Award winners and finalists across the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS: >1,000 PhD students). Received for "Establishing a track record in a new field of research through an exceptional number of high-quality publications from a PhD"
- Doctoral College Research Award, School Winner for Electronics and Computer Science, 2021 Festival of Doctoral Research.
- IEEE Microwave Week 2020 3MT® Best Presentation (2nd Prize): selected from 24 finalists from worldwide top institutions for the presentation "Collecting Radio Rain". Featured in the IEEE Microwave Magazine and several workshop invitations.
- Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE MTT-S Wireless Power Transfer Conference, Wireless Power Week 2019, London, U.K. for the paper "Millimeter-Wave Textile Antenna for On-Body RF Energy Harvesting in Future 5G Networks"; from >100 WPTC2019 papers.
- Best Oral Paper Award at PowerMEMS 2019, Krakow, Poland, for the paper "Position-Independent Wearable 6.78 MHz Near-Field Radiative Wireless Power Transfer using Electrically-Small Embroidered Textile Coils", sponsored by MDPI Energies.
- Selected for the IEEE MTT-S Project Connect 2019: bringing an exceptional group of undergraduate and first-year graduate students to the International Microwave Symposium.
- University of Southampton 3MT®: Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences Runner Up, SEMS Group first place winner.
- Andy Cranny Memorial Prize (2017/18), for the Best Undergraduate Project from 300 projects for the Project: "Flexible Wireless Sensor Node for Foot-Plantar Pressure Sensing".
Professional Roles
Dr. Wagih holds multiple external roles including:
- Senior Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Member of the IET, and Member of the IEEE,
- Elected as an Affiliate Member for two IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Technical Committees (TC-25 and TC-26): Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion Committee, and RFID, Wireless Sensors and IoT Committee,
- A member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) technical committee on Wireless Power.
- A member of the inaugural IEEE UK and Ireland Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Committee.
- TPC member and reviewer for several conferences including the flagship IEEE Internaional Microwave Symposium (IMS) and IEEE Antennas & Propagation Symposium (APS), Wireless Power Week, and others.
- A reviewer for over 17 Journals including multiple IEEE Antennas & Propagation and Microwave Theory & Techniques Letters, Journals, and Transactions, the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Systems Journal, Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, and multiple MDPI journals.
- Session chair at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, 2022, and co-chair at the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP'21)
Research
Research interests
A number of potential PhD topics I'm keen on supervising, around flexible/printed microwave systems and antennas are available at www.c-fleet.ecs.soton.ac.uk/node/214.
My interests broadly cover:
- RF Energy Harvesting;
- Wearable antennas and propagation;
- mmWave antennas;
- Electronic textiles;
- Additive manufacturing;
- Green RFID sensing.
Teaching
High-frequency circuits characterization and hands-on RF and microwave testing; supervising projects on antenna design, microwave circuits, and wireless systems.
Publications
Rotaru, Mihai and Mohamed, Mahmoud (2017) Analysis and design of low loss differential transmission line structures for high speed applications. In Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC), 2017 IEEE 19th. IEEE. pp. 1-5 . (doi:10.1109/EPTC.2017.8277541).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang, Yong, Sheng and Beeby, Stephen (2018) Connecting and powering flexible IoT, an insole case study. Arm Research Summit 2018, Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 17 - 19 Sep 2018.
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang and Beeby, Steve (2019) Flexible 2.4 GHz node for body area networks with a compact high-gain planar antenna. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 18 (1), 49-53. (doi:10.1109/LAWP.2018.2880490).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2019) Millimeter-wave textile antenna for on-body RF energy harvesting in future 5G networks. Wireless Power Week 2019, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference., IET Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom. 18 - 21 Jun 2019. pp. 1-4 . (In Press) (doi:10.1109/WPTC45513.2019.9055541).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Stephen (2019) Characterizing and modelling non-linear Rectifiers for RF energy harvesting. PowerMEMS 2019: International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power generation and Energy Conversion Applications, , Krakow, Poland. 03 - 06 Dec 2019. 5 pp .
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2019) Overcoming the efficiency barrier of textile antennas: a transmission lines approach. Proceedings, 32 (1), 1-5. (doi:10.3390/proceedings2019032018).
Paosangthong, Watcharapong, Wagih, Mahmoud, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Steve (2019) Textile-based triboelectric nanogenerator with alternating positive and negative freestanding grating structure. Nano Energy, [104148]. (doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104148).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun, Zaghari, Bahareh, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) A broadband outlook on flexible and textile RF energy harvesting and wireless power transfer: from near-field to 5G. Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference (innoLAE 2020), , Cambridge, United Kingdom. (In Press)
Komolafe, Abiodun, Wagih, Mahmoud, Valavan, Ashwini, Ahmed, Zeeshan, Stuikys, Aleksas and Zaghari, Bahareh (2019) A smart cycling platform for textile-based sensing and wireless power transfer in smart cities. Proceedings, 32 (1), 1-5, [7]. (doi:10.3390/proceedings2019032007).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Rectennas for radio-frequency energy harvesting and wireless power transfer: A review of antenna design [Antenna applications corner]. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 62 (5), 95-107, [9214948]. (doi:10.1109/MAP.2020.3012872).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun O. and Zaghari, Bahareh (2019) Position independent wearable 6.78 MHz near-field radiative wireless power transfer using electrically-small embroidered textile coils. PowerMEMS 2019: International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power generation and Energy Conversion Applications, , Krakow, Poland. 03 - 06 Dec 2019. 5 pp .
Wagih, Mahmoud (2020) Direct-write dispenser printing for rapid antenna prototyping on thin flexible substrates. In 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE. 4 pp . (doi:10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135625).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Sub-1 GHz flexible concealed rectenna yarn for high-efficiency wireless-powered electronic textiles. In 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE. 5 pp . (doi:10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9136041).
Mohamed, Mahmoud (2020) Dataset for "Separation-Independent Wearable 6.78 MHz Near-Field Radiative Wireless Power Transfer using Electrically-Small Embroidered Textile Coils". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1205 [Dataset]
Paosangthong, Watcharapong, Wagih, Mahmoud, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Steve (2020) Textile manufacturing compatible triboelectric nanogenerator with alternating positive and negative freestanding grating structure. Proceedings, 32 (1), [23]. (doi:10.3390/proceedings2019032023).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun and Zaghari, Bahareh (2020) Dual-receiver wearable 6.78 MHz resonant inductive wireless power transfer glove using embroidered textile coils. IEEE Access, 8, 24630-24642, [8978636]. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2971086).
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun and Zaghari, Bahareh (2020) Dataset for the paper: Dual-Receiver Wearable 6.78 MHz Resonant Inductive Wireless Power Transfer Glove using Embroidered Textile Coils. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/1217 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun and Zaghari, Bahareh (2020) Separation-independent wearable 6.78 MHz near-field radiative wireless power transfer using electrically-small embroidered textile coils. Energies, 13 (3), 1-14, [528]. (doi:10.3390/en13030528).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) High-efficiency sub-1 GHz flexible compact rectenna based on parametric antenna-rectifier co-design. IEEE International Microwave Symposium: IEEE Microwave Week, Los Angeles, United States. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hillier, Nicholas, Yong, Sheng, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Wearable e-textile wireless RF power supply based on a textile supercapacitor and a flexible rectenna filament. IEEE FLEPS 2020: IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, , Manchester, United Kingdom. 16 - 19 Aug 2020. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun and Zaghari, Bahareh (2020) Wearable wireless power transfer using direct-write dispenser printed flexible coils. IEEE FLEPS 2020: IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, , Manchester, United Kingdom. 16 - 19 Aug 2020. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang, Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Stephen (2020) Reliable UHF long-range textile-integrated RFID tag based on a compact flexible antenna filament. Sensors, 20 (12), 1-15, [3435]. (doi:10.3390/s20123435).
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang, Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Stephen (2020) Dataset for the paper: Reliable UHF Long-Range Textile-Integrated RFID Tag based on a Compact Flexible Antenna Filament. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1422 [Dataset]
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Cetinkaya, Oktay, Zaghari, Bahareh, Weddell, Alexander and Beeby, Stephen (2020) Dataset for "Real-World Performance of Sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz Textile Antennas for RF-Powered Body Area Networks". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1479 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud, Cetinkaya, Oktay, Zaghari, Bahareh, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Real-world performance of sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz textile antennas for RF-powered body area networks. IEEE Access, 8, 133746-133756, [9149585]. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3011603).
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alexander and Beeby, Stephen (2020) Data for Broadband Millimeter Wave Textile-Based Flexible Rectenna. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1493 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Broadband millimeter-wave textile-based flexible rectenna for wearable energy harvesting. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 68 (11), 4960-4972. (doi:10.1109/TMTT.2020.3018735).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Millimeter wave power harvesting: A review. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2020.3028220).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Omnidirectional dual-polarized low-profile textile rectenna with over 50% efficiency for sub-μW/cm2 wearable power harvesting. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. (doi:10.1109/TAP.2020.3030992). (In Press)
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Beeby, Stephen and Weddell, Alexander (2020) Data for Omnidirectional Dual-Polarized Low-Profile Textile Rectenna with over 50% Efficiency for Sub-µW/cm^2 Wearable Power Harvesting. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1571 [Dataset]
Mohamed, Mahmoud, Beeby, Stephen and Weddell, Alexander (2020) Dataset for: Millimeter-Wave Power Harvesting: A Review. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1568 [Dataset]
Mohamed, Mahmoud (2020) Data for Meshed High-Impedance Matching Network-Free Rectenna Optimized for Additive Manufacturing. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1632 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Meshed high-impedance matching network-free rectenna optimized for additive manufacturing. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 1-12. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2020.3038001).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) 2.4 GHz wearable textile antenna/rectenna for simultaneous information and power transfer. In 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021. IEEE.. (doi:10.23919/EuCAP51087.2021.9411499).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Powering e-textiles using a single thread radio frequency energy harvesting rectenna. International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles. 03 - 04 Nov 2020. (doi:10.3390/proceedings2021068016).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Analyzing and maximizing the power harvesting efficiency of a textile rectenna through reflector-based shielding. In 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021. IEEE.. (doi:10.23919/EuCAP51087.2021.9411484).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hillier, Nicholas, Yong, Sheng, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) RF-powered wearable energy harvesting and storage module based on e-textile coplanar waveguide rectenna and supercapacitor. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2, 302-314, [9354848]. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2021.3059501).
Wagih, Mahmoud and Shi, Junjie (2021) Direct-written printed dual-polarized meshed antenna for chipless RFID sensing. In General Assembly of the International Radio Science Union (URSI). IEEE. 4 pp . (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Millimeter-wave textile-based monopole antenna for wearable wireless power transmission. In General Assembly of the International Radio Science Union (URSI). IEEE. 4 pp . (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud (2021) An investigation of meshed printed monopoles for optically-transparent antennas. In General Assembly of the International Radio Science Union (URSI GASS).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Dual-band dual-mode textile antenna/rectenna for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT). IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 69 (10), 6322-6332. (doi:10.1109/TAP.2021.3070230). (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Dispenser printed flexible rectenna for dual-ISM band high-efficiency supercapacitor charging. In 2021 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC). IEEE. 4 pp . (In Press)
Mohamed, Mahmoud (2021) Data suppporting "RF-Powered Wearable Energy Harvesting and Storage Module based on E-Textile Coplanar Waveguide Rectenna and Supercapacitor". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1737 [Dataset]
Mohamed, Mahmoud (2021) Data associated with the Dual-Band Dual-Mode Textile Antenna/Rectenna for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1777 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud and Shi, Junjie (2021) Wireless ice detection and monitoring using flexible UHF RFID tags. IEEE Sensors Journal. (doi:10.36227/techrxiv.14252657.v2). (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud (2021) Comments on “A Passive and Wireless SensorBased on RFID Antenna for Detecting Mechanical Deformation”. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2. (In Press)
Komolafe, Abiodun, Zaghari, Bahareh, Torah, Russel, Weddell, Alexander, Khanbareh, Hamideh, Michail Tsikriteas, Zois, Vousden, Mark, Wagih, Mahmoud, Tronco Jurado, Ulises, Shi, Junjie, Li, Yi, Yang, Kai, Savelli, Guillaume, White, Neil and Beeby, Stephen (2021) E-textile technology review: from materials to applications. IEEE Access, 9, 97152-97179, [9471836]. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3094303).
Shi, Junjie and Wagih, Mahmoud (2021) Flexible Direct-Write Printed RF Sensor for RF Ice Sensing. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS). IEEE.. (doi:10.1109/FLEPS51544.2021.9469841).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Dual-polarized wearable antenna/rectenna for full-duplex and MIMO Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT). IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2, 844-857, [9492275]. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2021.3098939).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Screen printing reliable wearable microstrip antennas on rough textile substrates. In IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium. IEEE. pp. 1-2 . (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud and Shi, Junjie (2021) Complex-impedance dipole antennas as RFID-enabled ice monitors. In IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium. IEEE.. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Millimeter wave power transmission for compact and large-area wearable IoT devices based on a higher-order mode wearable antenna. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2021.3107594).
Mohamed, Mahmoud and Shi, Junjie (2021) UHF RFID Ice Detection and Monitoring Data. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1849 [Dataset]
Mohamed, Mahmoud and Hilton, Geoffrey S. (2021) Data Supporting the Article: Dual-Polarized Wearable Antenna/Rectenna for Full-Duplex and MIMO Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT). University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1899 [Dataset]
Mohamed, Mahmoud and Hilton, Geoffrey S. (2021) Millimeter Wave Power Transmission for Compact and Large-Area Wearable IoT Devices based on a Higher-Order Mode Wearable Antenna Data. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1931 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud, Savanth, Anand, Gamage, Sahan, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) CMOS UHF RFID Rectifier Design and Matching: an Analysis of Process and Temperature Variations. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA). IEEE.. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hillier, Nicholas, David George, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) E-Textile RF energy harvesting and storage using organic-electrolyte carbon-based supercapacitors. 2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, , chongqing, China. 15 - 17 Nov 2021. 4 pp . (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud and Moody, Thomas (2021) Open-Source Low-Cost Antenna Measurement Setup for Rapid Echoic Measurements. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications (CAMA). IEEE. 5 pp . (In Press) (doi:10.36227/techrxiv.16610818.v1).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun and Hillier, Nicholas (2022) Screen-Printable Flexible Textile-Based Ultra-Broadband Millimeter-Wave DC-Blocking Transmission Lines based on Microstrip-Embedded Printed Capacitors. IEEE Journal of Microwaves. (doi:10.1109/JMW.2021.3126927).
Wagih, Mahmoud (2022) Broadband low-loss on-body UHF to millimeter-wave surface wave links using flexible textile single wire transmission lines. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 3, 101-111. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2021.3136654).
Paosangthong, Watcharapong, Torah, Russel, Beeby, Stephen and Wagih, Mahmoud (2021) Textile-based triboelectric nanogenerator with alternating positive and negative freestanding woven structure for harvesting sliding energy in all directions. Nano Energy, 92, [106739]. (doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106739).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hilton, Geoffrey S., Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) 5G-enabled E-textiles based on a low-profile millimeter-wave textile antenna. In Engineering Proceedings. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Malik, Obaid, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) E-Textile breathing sensor using fully-textile wearable antennas. In Engineering Proceedings. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)..
Wagih, Mahmoud, Shi, Junjie and Li, Menglong (2022) Radio frequency-enabled “green” Large Area Electronics: from robust sensors to biodegradable antennas. Innovations in Large Area Electronics (InnoLAE) 2022, , Cambridge, United Kingdom. 22 - 24 Feb 2022. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Yong, Sheng, Yang, Kai, Weddell, Alexander and Beeby, Steve (2021) Printed non-metallic textile-based carbon antenna for low-cost green wearable applications. In European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2022 (EuCAP). IEEE.. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud and Birley, Peter (2021) Towards improved IoT LoRa-WAN connectivity using broadband omnidirectional antennas. In European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2022 (EuCAP). (In Press)
Mohamed, Mahmoud (2022) Data spporting the Screen-Printable Flexible Textile-Based Ultra-Broadband Millimeter-Wave DC-Blocking Transmission Lines based on Microstrip-Embedded Printed Capacitors. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D2128 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud, Hillier, Nicholas, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2021) Textile-based radio frequency energy harvesting and storage using ultra-compact rectennas with high effective-to-physical area ratio. In 2021 IEEE 20th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS). IEEE. 4 pp . (doi:10.1109/PowerMEMS54003.2021.9658367).
Wagih, Mahmoud (2022) Phase-accurate analytical transmission line model and for a 1--50 GHz millimeter-wave textile-based wearable Goubau Single Wire Transmission Line (SWTL). In 3rd URSI Atlantic / Asia-Pacific Radio Science Meeting - 2022. IEEE.. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2022) Broadband compact substrate-independent textile wearable antenna for simultaneous near- and far-field wireless power transmission. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 3, 398 - 411. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2022.3167089).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2022) 1 μW-3.75 W dual-mode near/far-field wearable wireless power transfer using a hybrid rectenna. In IEEE Wireless Power Week (WPW 2022). IEEE. 4 pp .
Wagih, Mahmoud (2022) Battery-free wireless node powered using high-efficiency harvesting of 900 MHz GFSK- modulated packets with a compact rectenna. IEEE Wireless Power Week (WPW 2022), , Bordeaux, France. 05 - 08 Jul 2022. (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2022) Watt-level low-SAR near-field wearable wireless power transfer using an all-textile receiver. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. IEEE. 2 pp . (In Press) (doi:10.1109/MAP.2021.3121522).
Wagih, Mahmoud (2022) On the Moisture-Resilience of On-Body Surface Wave Single Wire Transmission Lines (SWTLs). In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. IEEE. 2 pp . (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2022) Body-proximity effects on the input impedance of a complex-conjugate SWIPT textile rectenna. In IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium. IEEE. 2 pp . (In Press)
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2022) Towards multi-mode millimeter wave body area networks for information and power transmission: a co-existence study. In 2022 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium. IEEE. 4 pp . (In Press)
Mohamed, Mahmoud (2022) Data Supporting the paper: Broadband Low-Loss On-Body UHF to Millimeter-Wave Surface Wave Links using Flexible Textile Single Wire Transmission Lines. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D2072 [Dataset]
Wagih, Mahmoud and Shi, Junjie (2022) Towards the optimal antenna-based wireless sensing strategy: An ice sensing case study. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 3, 687 - 699. (doi:10.1109/OJAP.2022.3182770).
Wagih, Mahmoud and Beeby, Steve (2022) Thin flexible RF energy harvesting rectenna surface with a large effective aperture for sub-µW/cm2 powering of wireless sensor nodes. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 1-11. (doi:10.1109/TMTT.2022.3192532).
Paosangthong, Watcharapong, Wagih, Mahmoud, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Steve (2022) Textile manufacturing compatible triboelectric nanogenerator with alternating positive and negative woven structure. Engineering Proceedings, 15 (1). (doi:10.3390/engproc2022015019).
Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Stephen (2022) Battery-free wireless light-sensing tag based on a long-range dual-port dual-polarized RFID platform. Sensors, 22 (13), [4782]. (doi:10.3390/s22134782).
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 442380593234
Email: mahm1m19@soton.ac.uk
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Lecturer with the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Efstratios (Stratis) Batzelis is an “Engineering for Development” Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and has been a Lecturer at ECS since Apr 2021. Prior to that post, Stratis was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London since Nov 2019 and before that he held an EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship on photovoltaic control & integration from Nov 2017. He obtained his PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2016.
Stratis is an experienced researcher with many IEEE publications and a funding track record of more than £1.6 million. He is a Senior IEEE member, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He is an advocate of sustainable energy and the fight against climate change. His research interests involve renewable energy technologies and distributed energy resources, mainly solar photovoltaics and inverter-based generation, power electronics control and power system stability.
Funding
- EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Action: RE-EMPOWERED – Renewable Energy EMPOWERing European and InDian communities, Co-I, £446K, 2021-2024
- RAEng research fellowship: SOL-DEV – Addressing the SOLar Integration Challenges in DEVeloping Countries, PI, £964K, 2019-2024
- EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship: PVCI – PhotoVoltaic Control & Integration, Research Fellow, £157K, 2017-2019
- IKY/Siemens postdoctoral fellowship: PV systems: Modern challenges, Research Fellow, £4K, 2016-2017
Research
Research interests
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems design, modeling, control and integration to the power system
- Renewable Energy Resources (RES)
- Electrification and energy access in developing countries
- Intergation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to the power system
- Control of power electronics and Inverter-based resources (IBRs)
- Power system stability
Publications
Pawar, Bandopant, Batzelis, Efstratios, Chakrabarti, Saikat and Pal, Bikash (2021) Grid-forming control for solar PV systems with power reserves. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 12 (4), 1947-1959. (doi:10.1109/TSTE.2021.3074066).
Vuyyuru, Umamaheswararao, Maiti, Suman, Chakraborty, Chandan and Batzelis, Efstratios I. (2021) Universal active power control converter for DC-Microgrids with common energy storage. IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, 21-35. (doi:10.1109/OJIA.2021.3063625).
Psarros, Georgios N., Batzelis, Efstratios I. and Papathanassiou, Stavros A. (2015) Partial shading analysis of multistring PV arrays and derivation of simplified MPP expressions. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 6 (2), 499-508, [7042759]. (doi:10.1109/TSTE.2015.2389715).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Kampitsis, Georgios E., Papathanassiou, Stavros A. and Manias, Stefanos N. (2015) Direct MPP calculation in terms of the single-diode PV model parameters. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 30 (1), 226-236, [6918425]. (doi:10.1109/TEC.2014.2356017).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Routsolias, Iason A. and Papathanassiou, Stavros A. (2014) An explicit pv string model based on the lambert w function and simplified mpp expressions for operation under partial shading. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 5 (1), 301-312, [6670101]. (doi:10.1109/TSTE.2013.2282168).
Petrone, Giovanni, Zamboni, Walter, Batzelis, Efstratios, Manganiello, Patrizio and Blasco-Gimenez, Ramon (2021) Special Issue ELECTRIMACS 2019 ENGINEERING Modelling and computational simulation for analysis and optimization in electrical power engineering. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 184, 1-4. (doi:10.1016/j.matcom.2020.08.003).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Junyent-Ferre, Adria and Pal, Bikash C. (2020) MPP estimation of PV systems keeping power reserves under fast irradiance changes. In 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020. vol. 2020-August, IEEE Computer Society.. (doi:10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281698).
Kampitsis, Georgios, Batzelis, Efstratios, van Erp, Remco and Matioli, Elison (2021) Parallel pv configuration with magnetic-free switched capacitor module-level converters for partial shading conditions. Energies, 14 (2), [456]. (doi:10.3390/en14020456).
Su, Di, Batzelis, Efstratios and Pal, Bikash (2019) Machine learning algorithms in forecasting of photovoltaic power generation. In SEST 2019 - 2nd International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. (doi:10.1109/SEST.2019.8849106).
Das, Anubrata, Batzelis, Efstratios, Anand, Sandeep and Sahoo, Soumya Ranjan (2020) An adaptive p-Q management technique for grid voltage regulation using PV inverter. In 2020 21st National Power Systems Conference, NPSC 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. (doi:10.1109/NPSC49263.2020.9331760).
Kampitsis, Georgios, Batzelis, Efstratios, Gati, Eleni, Papathanassiou, Stavros and Manias, Stefanos (2015) Electro-thermal characterization of 1.2 kV normally-on SiC JFETs under hard switch fault. In 2015 17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE-ECCE Europe 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. (doi:10.1109/EPE.2015.7309054).
Batzelis, Efstratios, Samaras, Konstantinos, Vokas, Georgios and Papathanassiou, Stavros (2016) Off-grid inverter faults: diagnosis, symptoms and cause of failure. Mamalis, A.G., Kladas, Antonios G., Enokizono, Masato, Enokizono, Masato and Lazarov, Vladimir (eds.) In Applied Electromagnetic Engineering for Advanced Materials from Macroto Nanoscale. vol. 856, Trans Tech. pp. 315-321 . (doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.856.315).
Batzelis, Efstratios and Papathanassiou, Stavros (2016) An algorithm to detect partial shading conditions in a PV system. Mamalis, A.G., Kladas, Antonios G., Enokizono, Masato, Enokizono, Masato and Lazarov, Vladimir (eds.) In Applied Electromagnetic Engineering for Advanced Materials from Macroto Nanoscale. vol. 856, Trans Tech. pp. 303-308 . (doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.856.303).
Nikolaou, Nikolaos, Batzelis, Efstratios and Brown, Gavin (2017) Gradient boosting models for photovoltaic power estimation under partial shading conditions. Kramer, Oliver, Madnick, Stuart, Woon, Wei Lee and Aung, Zeyar (eds.) In Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration: Informing the Generation and Distribution of Renewable Energy - 5th ECML PKDD Workshop, DARE 2017, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 10691 LNAI, Springer-Verlag. pp. 13-25 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71643-5_2).
Batzelis, Efstratios I. and Papathanassiou, Stavros A. (2016) A method for the analytical extraction of the single-diode PV model parameters. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 7 (2), 504-512, [7355389]. (doi:10.1109/TSTE.2015.2503435).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Anagnostou, Georgios and Pal, Bikash C. (2018) A state-space representation of irradiance-driven dynamics in two-stage photovoltaic systems. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 8 (4), 1119-1124. (doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2839261).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Anagnostou, Georgios, Chakraborty, Chandan and Pal, Bikash C. (2020) Computation of the Lambert W function in photovoltaic modeling. Zamboni, Walter and Petrone, Giovanni (eds.) In ELECTRIMACS 2019 - Selected Papers - Volume 1. vol. 604, Springer. pp. 583-595 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37161-6_44).
Batzelis, Efstratios I. (2017) Simple PV performance equations theoretically well founded on the single-diode model. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7 (5), 1400-1409, [7950901]. (doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2711431).
Batzelis, Efstratios (2019) Non-iterative methods for the extraction of the single-diode model parameters of photovoltaic modules: a review and comparative assessment. Energies, 12 (3), [358]. (doi:10.3390/en12030358).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Kampitsis, Georgios E. and Papathanassiou, Stavros A. (2017) Power reserves control for PV systems with real-time MPP estimation via curve fitting. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 8 (3), 1269-1280, [7864452]. (doi:10.1109/TSTE.2017.2674693).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Anagnostou, Georgios, Cole, Ian R., Betts, Thomas R. and Pal, Bikash C. (2019) A state-space dynamic model for photovoltaic systems with full ancillary services support. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 10 (3), 1399-1409, [8536445]. (doi:10.1109/TSTE.2018.2880082).
Kolesnik, Sergei, Sitbon, Moshe, Lineykin, Simon, Batzelis, Efstratios, Papathanassiou, Stavros, Suntio, Teuvo and Kuperman, Alon (2017) Solar irradiation independent expression for photovoltaic generator maximum power line. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7 (5), 1416-1420, [7961142]. (doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2713404).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Papathanassiou, Stavros A. and Pal, Bikash C. (2018) PV system control to provide active power reserves under partial shading conditions. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 33 (11), 9163-9175, [8331931]. (doi:10.1109/TPEL.2018.2823426).
Batzelis, Efstratios I., Georgilakis, Pavlos S. and Papathanassiou, Stavros A. (2015) Energy models for photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions: a comprehensive review. IET Renewable Power Generation, 9 (4), 340-349. (doi:10.1049/iet-rpg.2014.0207).
Karpana, Sivakrishna, Batzelis, Efstratios and Maiti, Suman (2020) Modeling and analysis of zig-zag boost converter for battery charging applications. In PIICON 2020 - 9th IEEE Power India International Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. (doi:10.1109/PIICON49524.2020.9112897).
Luo, Xi, Barreras, Jorge Varela, Chambon, Clementine L., Wu, Billy and Batzelis, Efstratios (2021) Hybridizing lead–acid batteries with supercapacitors: a methodology. Energies, 14 (2), 1-27, [507]. (doi:10.3390/en14020507).
Batzelis, Stratis, Rather, Zakir Hussain, Barton, John, Naidu, Bonu Ramesh, Wu, Billy, Ul Nazir, Firdous, Nduka, Onyema Sunday, He, Wei, Nsengiyaremye, Jerome, Pawar, Bandopant and Palmer, Diane (2021) Solar integration in the UK and India: technical barriers and future directions 85pp. (doi:10.17028/rd.lboro.14453133.v1).
Pawar, Bandopant, Chakrabarti, Saikat, Batzelis, Efstratios I. and Pal, Bikash C. (2021) Grid-Forming Control for Solar PV Systems with Real-Time MPP Estimation. In 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2021. vol. 2021-July, IEEE Computer Society.. (doi:10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638020).
Karpana, Sivakrishna, Batzelis, Efstratios, Maiti, Suman and Chakraborty, Chandan (2021) PV-supercapacitor cascaded topology for primary frequency responses and dynamic inertia emulation. Energies, 14 (24), [8347]. (doi:10.3390/en14248347).
Batzelis, Stratis, Blanes, Jose, Toledo, F. Javier and Galiano, Vicente (2022) Noise-scaled euclidean distance: A metric for maximum likelihood estimation of the PV model parameters. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 12 (3), 815 - 826. (doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2022.3159390).
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 2380593448
Email: E.Batzelis@soton.ac.uk
Scientists across Europe will revolutionise how we measure and monitor our changing oceans in a new €8.9 million research programme.
The TechOceanS project, coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre, will deliver a new generation of low-cost and easily deployable sensors capable of wide-scale monitoring of ocean bio-geochemistry.
The international programme will pioneer five new sensors, two imaging systems, a novel sampler and an Artificial Intelligence-driven image processing methodology, all capable of operating at depths beyond 2,000 metres.
Southampton experts in Electronics and Computer Science, including Professor Hywel Morgan and Dr Daniel Spencer, will use their skills in microfluidics and sensor design to develop miniature, autonomous biological analysers capable of continuous monitoring and characterisation of marine organisms (such as harmful alga) and micro-plastics in the oceans for many months at a time.
The interdisciplinary research will include Southampton's Dr Peter Glynne Jones and his expertise in the manipulation of microscopic particles using the forces generated by ultrasonic waves.
Professor Morgan, Head of the Biomedical Electronics Research Group, says: "The oceans are essential in regulating climate and produce most of the planet’s oxygen, yet are ruthlessly exploited. To better understand the health of the oceans we urgently require significantly improved ways of measuring key chemical, biological and ecosystem variables.
"This ambitious and exciting project led by the world-class National Oceanography Centre brings together internationally leading partners from all over Europe. It will revolutionise ocean measurements and will have long-term impact on our understanding of life in the oceans and the way we exploit these resources."
TechOceanS will actively engage with scientists, manufacturers, marine stakeholders and resource managers to target ‘Essential Ocean Variables’ that currently can only be measured by observations from a ship.
Engineers at Southampton will develop automated methods to turn vast numbers of images taken in the ocean into numerical information about the distribution of species, habitats and plastic pollution, and transmit this in near real-time over the low communication bandwidths available in the open ocean.
This will allow researchers to be instantly aware of discoveries made by autonomous systems, regardless of where they are in the world, and allow people to adapt data acquisition strategies based on up-to-date information.
Professor Blair Thornton, Director of the Centre of Excellence for In Situ and Remote Intelligent Sensing (IRIS), says: "TechOceanS will be revolutionary for how imagery is used in ocean science. Most ocean sensors make continuous measurements of scalar values like temperature, salinity or pH, where the size of data is small enough to transmit over the acoustic or global satellite bandwidths available in the open ocean. Images on the other hand, are far too large to transmit directly, and the require non-trivial analysis to extract useful information from the scenes they capture.
"This means that people normally need to go out to sea and physically recover imaging systems to make the data accessible. For remote sites that are rarely visited, this can introduce delays of months or even years from when the original events took place.
"The edge computing methods we are developing in this project will make the cameras smart enough to reliably extract and summarise important information by themselves, and through intelligent interaction with remote hosts, transmit these finding efficiently and in near real-time. Researchers won't necessarily have to go out to sea in order to make discoveries."
TechOceanS - Technologies for Ocean Sensing - is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme.
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University of Southampton student Richard Carter has drawn praise in a national electronics competition for a spinning on-bike light display.
Richard and his Persistence of Vision (PoV) display have been named the runner-up in the UK Electronic Skills Foundation (UKESF) Embedded Systems Competition sponsored by UltraSoC.
The achievement immediately follows the University’s strong performance in the 2019 contest, where Southampton’s Yanislav Donchev and Torran Green claimed the top two prizes.
A PoV display renders an image to the human eye by spinning and switching on and off a series of radial strips of LEDs fast enough that the brain considers the full circle to be a solid image.
Richard designed, created and trialled the light display as part of his MEng Electronic Engineering degree to exhibit a choice of images from the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
"My goal was to design a product that improves the safety of cyclists in the dark, providing a lightweight active light source that shines left and right relative to the cyclist," he explains. "In addition, the ability to display custom images uploaded from an app introduces some entertainment value to using the light.
"I thoroughly enjoyed designing and working on my project so the opportunity to be recognised for the success I achieved is especially rewarding. As with many embedded systems, there are many things from my project that I would like to improve on, and I have already started working on the next iteration of my PoV Bike Wheel Display. My thanks go to UltraSoC and UKESF for sponsoring, organising, and judging the competition."
Richard has boosted his career prospects as a UKESF Scholar. The scheme, which supported a record-breaking number of Southampton students in 2020, offers a £1,000 annual bursary and paid work placements with mentoring from a leading employer in the electronics sector.
Richard completed his sponsored internship as a System Validation Engineer with Qualcomm remotely over the summer.
A prominent member of the ECS Society (ECSS), he has shared his passion during his degree as one of the organisers of the Microhack hackathon, which gave students hands-on experience with microcontroller boards and sample hardware.
Professor Geoff Merrett, Director of Outreach and Recruitment at Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), says: "Many congratulations to Richard, it's great to see Southampton students being successful in the UKESF Competitions yet again. This is a testament to the excellent quality of our students, and particularly in the domain of embedded systems."
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A protective respirator created by researchers at the University of Southampton is now being used by healthcare staff in over 20 NHS trusts around the country.
Over 10,000 respirators have been provided to trusts from the south of England to Scotland after it received approval from the Health and Safety Executive for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Experts in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) worked with engineers, medical staff and industry partners to rapidly develop the Personal Respirator Southampton, known as PeRSo, which consists of a fabric hood for the wearer's head and a plastic visor to protect their face.
The small portable unit delivers clean air through a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter with belt-mounted fan pack and can be worn throughout a long shift and reused after appropriate cleaning.
The multidisciplinary team was co-led by ECS’s Professor Hywel Morgan and respiratory medicine expert Professor Paul Elkington, who both were awarded MBEs for their work in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
The respirator has also been honoured by the Royal Academy of Engineering with a President’s Special Award for Pandemic Service.
Dr Ric Gillams, a Research Fellow in ECS’s Biomedical Electronics Research Group, says: “I felt very helpless in the early days of the pandemic and so I was delighted to be part of the PeRSo team. We had a lot of support from across the University, from Southampton General Hospital and from a large number of companies around the UK.
“The pressure on healthcare workers is now even greater than it was in the first wave of the pandemic and the feedback from PeRSo users has been very positive. It is very rewarding to see the respirators in action and to have made a contribution to the safety of those working on the frontline treating patients with COVID-19.”
As the country went into the first lockdown in March 2020, a collaboration of University engineers, clinicians at University Hospital Southampton and industry partners including McLaren, Kemp Sails and INDO Lighting came together to develop PeRSo. In just one week, this partnership turned an idea into a prototype which was then tested on wards and manufactured at scale by INDO Lighting in less than a month.
Dr Becky Eggleston, a doctor on the general intensive care unit at University Hospital Southampton, says: “We are extremely grateful for all the work that the team has put into producing the PeRSo hoods. They are much more comfortable than alternative PPE, which makes a huge difference to us during our long shifts.
“Being able to see each other's faces makes it easier for our team to communicate, and knowing that patients take comfort from being able to see the faces of the people looking after them is a boost to morale.”
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