PhD projects (ongoing and previous)

I have supervised a range of research topics for PhD students since 2012. Ongoing and previous PhD projects, and a brief summary of the student’s research topic, are listed below.

Ongoing PhD projects

2022 – Present: Connor Bain (collaborative supervision with Dr Michael Crichton at Heriot-Watt University). Wearable sensors for skin health monitoring.

2022 – Present: Roderick Buchanan-Dunlop (collaborative supervision with Dr Martin Parker, Reid School of Music). Laser doppler vibrometry as a sound recording tool for technical and creative audio applications.

2021 – Present: Yun Jiang (collaborative supervision with Prof Rebecca Cheung in UoE School of Engineering). Development of new broadband electroacoustic MEMS sensors.

Previous PhD projects

2017 – 2021: Jing Xu (co-supervisor). Development of graphene-based microelectromechanical systems for acoustic sensing.

2016 – 2021: Brian Applegate (1st-supervisor). The rise and fall of iconic guitar tonewoods and evaluation of alternative species.

2015 – 2020: Dario Sanfilippo (2nd-supervisor). Complex Musical Behaviours via Time-Variant Audio Feedback Networks and Distributed Adaptation: a Study of Autopoietic Infrastructures for Real-Time Performance Systems.

2014 – 2018: Charlotte Desvages (co-supervisor). Physical Modelling of the Bowed String and Applications to Sound Synthesis.

2014 – 2018: Amaya Lopez-Carromero (co-supervisor). Experimental investigation of acoustic characteristics of radiation and playing gestures for lip-excited musical instruments.

2014 – 2017: Reginald Harrison (2nd supervisor). Physical Modelling of Brass Instruments using Finite-Difference Time-Domain Methods.