Team

Principal investigator

Faezeh Arab Hassani (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, SMIEEE) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol. Dr Arab Hassani received a PhD degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in 2012. She then joined the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan, for her Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) post-doctoral fellowship (2012-2013). She continued her research career at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National University of Singapore (NUS) (2013-2014), University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (2014-2016), and the N.1 Institute of Health (former Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology), NUS (2016-2019). Dr Arab Hassani received a JSPS invitational fellowship to conduct research at the University of Tokyo, Japan (2019-2020). She is the Programme Director of the MSc Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include micro/nano-electronics, micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) hybrid devices, sensors, actuators, and energy harvesters for healthcare and environmental applications.

PhD students

Kieran Holmes-Martin received his BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Exeter, the United Kingdom, in 2017 and his MSc in Biomedical Engineering with Distinction from the University of Bristol, the United Kingdom, in 2021. He is pursuing his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol. His research interests include flexible electronics for biomedical applications.

Shujun Xiao received her BEng in Electrical Engineering and Automation from the Shanghai Maritime University, China, in 2019 and her MSc in Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering with Distinction from the University of Bristol, the United Kingdom, in 2021. She is pursuing her PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol. Her research interests include wireless control systems for sensing-actuation devices.  

Minghui Zhu received his BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the South China Agricultural University, China, in 2020 and his MSc in Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering from the University of Bristol, the United Kingdom, in 2021. He is pursuing his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol. His research interests include surface electrocorticographic (ECoG) array electrodes for monitoring and direct stimulation applications.    

Marah Alassaf received her BSc in Computer Engineering and Mobile Telecommunications from Al-Shahba University, Syria, in 2017 and her MSc in Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering from the University of Bristol, the United Kingdom, in 2019. She is pursuing her PhD in Digital Health and Care at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol. Her research interests include nano-flexible wearable sensors for the early detection of cancer.  

Please visit the list of former team members here: Alumni