Research staff in the Dyson School of Design Engineering are listed below. Follow the link on each name for more information about the person. Follow this link for a more concise list of our research staff

Research Fellows

  • Dr Anthony Quinn

    Advanced Research Fellow, Dyson School of Design Engineering

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    Dr Anthony Quinn Advanced Research Fellow

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    Anthony Quinn specialises in statistical signal processing and machine learning methods for optimal design amid uncertainty. He is particularly interested in the design of efficient recursive algorithms to enable distributed and sequential learning. His application foci at the Dyson are the AI-Fairness agenda, and problems of resource allocation at scale, using the optimal transport paradigm. He is tenured in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, where he has taught for many years in probability, statistics, signal processing and telecommunications.

    Location

    Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Johan Pauwels

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    Dr Johan Pauwels Research Fellow

    Research

    Johan is a Research Fellow on the SONICOM project, where he is looking at modelling individual user’s characteristics and behaviour with machine learning to enhance immersive audio. In the past, Johan contributed to multiple national and international research projects on music information retrieval in Belgium, France and the UK. He also taught subjects ranging from audio programming to big data processing at various London universities.

    Location

    Dyson Building, 
    South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Mark Friddin

    Mark Friddin

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    Dr Mark Friddin Imperial College Research Fellow

    Research

    Mark is an expert in microfluidics, optofluidics, rapid prototyping, ion channel electrophysiology and bottom-up synthetic biology. His core research aims are to develop new platform technologies for additive biomanufacturing.

    Location

    Level 3, Dyson Building
    Imperial College London
    South Kensington
    London SW7 2AZ

  • Dorian Peters

    DP

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    Dorian Peters Research Fellow in Wellbeing Supportive Technologies

    Research

    Dorian’s research is on wellbeing-supportive design, including the support of psychological needs through design.  Her focus is on integrating wellbeing psychology into design practice to improve digital experience. She also works on technology ethics.

    Location

    Dyson Building,
    South Kensington Campus

Research Assistants and Associates

  • Dr Claire Baker

    Research Associate Dyson School of Design Engineering

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    Dr Claire Baker Research Associate

    Research

    Claire is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize research fellow in Design Engineering's HEAD Lab whose area of expertise is injury biomechanics and road safety. Her research interest is in using biomechanical information to predict injury outcomes in real time, with the aim of improving emergency care response. She completed her multidisciplinary PhD, the AutoTriage project, under the umbrella of Imperial's Neurotechnology CDT. The AutoTriage project investigates the feasibility of predicting traumatic brain injury in road traffic collisions using in-vehicle sensors. Claire split her time between Imperial's Medicine and Design Engineering departments, as well as PhD industry partner TRL. 

    Location

    Room Observatory 114, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Tim Murray Browne

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    Tim Murray Browne Research Associate

    Research

    Tim is an artist and researcher investigating interactive experiences within art and music. His research explores how we find meaning and value within interactive installations, and how our sense of agency influences our self-representation. 

    Location

    Dyson Building,
    South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Raj Desai

    Raj Desai Research Associate Dyson School of Design Engineering

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    Dr Raj Desai Research Associate

    Research

    Raj's research journey has been driven by a passion for bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world impact. He is particularly interested in investigating the biomechanical factors underlying head and facial injuries in motorcyclists, and developing innovative strategies for injury prevention. To achieve this, Raj plans to leverage mathematical modeling techniques and rigorous analysis of experimental data to gain deeper insights into head and facial injury mechanisms in motorcycle accidents.

    Location

    RCS1-114, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Fernanda Espinoza

    Research assistant, Dyson ink bridge, imperial research

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    Fernanda Espinoza Research Assistant

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    Fernanda is working within the Wellbeing Technologies Lab investigating the design of a technological intervention that supports people living with dementia and their caregivers in Peru.

    Location

    Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Andrea Gerino

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    Andrea Gerino Research Associate

    Research

    Andrea’s research activity covers the area of data management with particular focus on the development and evaluation of assistive technologies. He is currently involved in the creation of virtual experiences to evaluate spatial hearing and auditory prostheses, and in the development of interactive sonic narratives for virtual heritage.

    Location

    Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Milan Kooplikkattil Sadan

    Marie Curie Research Fellow, New starter, Dyson school of Design Engineering, Research Fellow

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    Dr Milan Kooplikkattil Sadan UKRI Guarantee Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship

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    Research

    Milan is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. He has been dedicated to battery research since 2014, with a special focus on self-healing next-generation batteries. Milan's research expertise includes interphase engineering, post-lithium ion batteries (such as sodium-ion, room temperature sodium-sulfur, potassium-ion, potassium sulfur and lithium-sulfur batteries), flexible batteries, dry electrode fabrication, electrospinning, etc. 

    Location

    DB-302B, 3rd Floor, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Elyse M Marshall

    Research assistant, Dyson ink bridge, imperial research

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    Elyse M Marshall Research Assistant

    Research

    Elyse is working with the morph lab to explore the use of soft robotics and haptics for medical and commercial devices.

    Location

    Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Julie Meyer

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    Dr Julie Meyer Research Associate

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    Julie's current research focuses on the auditory adaptation to non-individual head-related transfer functions in binaural hearing. More specifically, she is interested in the generalization of auditory adaptation to untrained conditions.

    Location

    Room RCS214, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Pouria Mohamadzadehoqaz

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    Pouria Mohamadzadehoqaz UKRI Research Fellow

    Research

    Pouria is a Design Engineering PhD student with a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and a master’s degree in Aerostructures. His passion has transitioned from engineering design to design theories, particularly Axiomatic Design. Currently, his research within iCircular3 (Digital Transition of Circular Economy) focuses on Circular Cyber-Physical Product as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure.

    Location

    Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Landon Morrison

    Research Fellow

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    Dr Landon Morrison Research Associate

    Research

    Landon is a music theorist interested in the role of technological mediation in 20th- and 21st-century sonic practices, with a special focus on electronic and digital instruments in experimental, avant-garde, and popular music. His research aims to develop an interdisciplinary perspective on musical media by bringing theory into dialogue with surrounding discourses from science, technology, and cultural studies, and by combining analytical approaches with historiography, archival work, and ethnographic methods.

    Location

    Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Katarina Poole

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    Dr Katarina Poole Research Associate

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    Katarina is interested in how our brain and auditory system is able to analyse our acoustic environment. She is currently working on two main projects. In one she is investigating how to create immersive audio from 3D scans of someone’s ears and head, and what aspects of the 3D scan are needed to create well perceived spatial audio. In another project Katarina is researching whether we can observe neural correlates in EEG recordings to changes in a spatial auditory scene and how these might change based on the location in space of the new auditory source.

    Location

    RCS1 214, Dyson Building
    South Kensington Campus

  • Marco Da Re

    Research assistant, Dyson ink bridge, imperial research, photography, photographer, imperil research assistant

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    Marco Da Re Research Assistant, Digital Design Lead

    Research

    Marco is currently conducting research on the design and development of an mHealth diagnostic system for dementia and co-morbidities in rural Peru. The system is designed to be deliverable by non-specialists and includes clinical enquiry, brief cognitive testing, functional assessment, and evaluation of co-morbidities. It is adaptable and acceptable across multiple cultural and cognitive contexts, meeting the pressing need for a diagnostic system for dementia. He has a strong interest in implementing creative and unconventional design methods, while also involving end users throughout the design process.

    Location

    Room 760, Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus