Meet the Team
what it is. We work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across ATU Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems
Meet the Team
what it is. We work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across ATU Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems
THE TEAM
The PEM Centre Team have a strong history of conducting applied research. We have completed over one hundred industry projects, securing over €12 million in competitive research funding (over €1 million of which was contributed directly from industry) and filed four patent applications (two granted and two pending). Equally our academic track record is exemplary with two hundred peer reviewed publications and supervision of Masters and PhD students.
In addition to the staff listed below, we work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across ATU Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems.
Primary Contacts
Dr Russell Macpherson
PEM Technology Gateway Manager
Area of Expertise: Manufacturing, Productivity, AI, Research and Development, Innovation & New Product Introduction
Email:
russell.macpherson@atu.ie
Sean Mullane
PEM Technology Gateway
Precision Engineering Technician
Area of Expertise: Mechatronic Engineering, CNC Programming & Tool Making
Email:
sean.mullane@atu.ie
ClÃodhna Carroll
PEM Technology Gateway
Business Development Lead
Email:
cliodhna.carroll@atu.ie
Mohammadhadi Rezaei
PEM Technology Gateway
Research & Design Engineer
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Design for Manufacture, Design Optimisation & Prototype Design
Email:
mohammadhadi.rezaei@atu.ie
PEM Research Centre and Academic Staff
Dr David Tormey
PEM Academic Director
Area of Expertise: Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Dr Marion McAfee
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Process Monitoring, Modelling and Control
Dr John Donovan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Statistical Process Modelling
Dr Richard Sherlock
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Laser Spectroscopy
Prof Suresh Pillai
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Nano Material and Technologies
Dr Leo Creedon
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling
Dr Gerard McGranaghan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise:Heat Transfer, Manufacturing Engineering
Dr Ioannis Manolakis
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Polymers & Composites/Coatings, Bio-inspired Materials
Brian Coll
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Lean Six Sigma, Quality & Operational Excellence
Dr Xavier Velay
PEM Principal investigator/HoD of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering
Area of Expertise: Design for Industry, Engineering Management, Industry 4.0, and the Circular Economy
Dr Saritha Unnikrishnan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Computational Modelling
Dr Umar Khan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Thin Films, Polymer Composites, Graphene, Materials Science, and Nanoparticles
Dr Mary Garvey
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Toxicology, Microbiology & Veterinary Science
Dr Sarah Hehir
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Organic Synthesis/ Polymer Chemistry
Dr Ailish Breen
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Drug & Gene Delivery, Tissue Engineering and Medical Devices
Dr Konrad Mulrennan
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Machine learning & Data analytics
Dr Douglas Marques
PEM Researcher / Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Mechatronic Engineering
Area of Expertise: Polymers Processing, Biomaterials Science, Medical Devices & Tissue Engineering
Dr Muhammad Mahmood Ali
Assistant Lecturer in Department of Computing and Electronic Engineering.
Area of Expertise: Photonic Engineering, Electronic Engineering & Laser Welding and Manufacturing
Dr Aoife Hegarty
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Observation Technologies
Dr Kieran Hughes
PEM Researcher - Mathematical Modelling Research Group
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling; Mathematical Programming; and Computational Algebra
Christopher O'Hara
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Design for manufacture, Project Engineering
Dr Giordano Bernardes
PEM Researcher - Assistant Lecturer Department of Mechatronic Engineering
Area of Expertise: Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Research
Dr Jamie Roche
PEM Researcher - Lecturer, Robotics and Automation
Area of Expertise: Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Predictive Modelling; Intelligent Sensing; Robotics; Multi-Agent Systems with application to Intelligent Mobility, Path Planning and Sports Analytics, AI
Dr Dinesh Babu Duraibabu
PEM Researcher - Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mechatronic Engineering
Area of Expertise: Sensors, Robotics, Automation, Autonomous vehicles, Optical fibre sensors.
Jonathan Kelly
PEM Researcher - Assistannt Lecturer Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Area of Expertise: Design of automated equipment and automated processes for manufacturing industries.
Product Design for Manufacture, and Design for (Automated) Assembly.
Mechanical Design Optimisation
Dr Eimear Magee
PEM Researcher - Post-doctoral Researcher & Senior Research Fellow Area of Expertise: Biopolymers, Nanocomposites and Polymer processing
Dr Mohammadreza Kadivar
PEM Researcher - Assistant lecturer in Engineering Simulation
Area of Expertise: Additive manufacture enhanced heat transfer surfaces
Dr Mandana Kariminejad
PEM Researcher & Post Doctoral Researcher
Area of Expertise: Feedback control systems, Multi-objective optimisation, Mathematical modelling, Data-driven modelling, Machine learning, Design of Experiments, Nonlinear control, Additive manufacturing, Injection moulding
Dr Nimra Munir
PEM Researcher & Post Doctoral Researcher
Area of Expertise: Polymer and drug processing and characterisation, machine learning and data analysis
PhD STUDENTS
Foram Dave
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Laser Transmission Welding and Polymer Characterisation
Jamie Grant
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Forensic Investigation and Analysis
Mohamad Awad
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Process Engineering, Production Scheduling and Optimisation, Manufacturing Engineering
Albert Weinert
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Sensorisation of 3D printed injection moulding tooling
Usaid Azhar
PEM Technology Gateway Business Development Lead
Area of Expertise: Materials Synthesis & Characterisation (Bio-Ceramics, Bio-Inspired Polymers, Composites)
Hamail Ayaz
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Image Processing, Computer Vision, AI, Biomedical Imaging, Data analysis and, Machine and Deep learnings
Fearghus Downes
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling
Nishanth Thomas
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterial synthesis and its sustainable applications)
Parnia Fourouzandeh
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Additive manufacture enhanced heat transfer surfaces
Snehamol Mathew
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications
Arghadyuti Banerjee
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.
Amit Goswami
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Surfaces for enhanced heat transfer, advanced manufacturing technology, Coating technology
Babak Ziaie
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Solid Mechanics, FEM Simulation, Medical Devices, Mechanical Design Optimisation
Qusai Ibrahim
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Membrane Technology, Hydrogen generation and Energy analysis, Photocatalysis and Simulation
Sahar Karimian
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Sensor Fabrication, Modelling of Biological Systems, Bio-signal Processing, Optimising Algorithim's, Medical Imaging Processing & Brain-Computer Interface (BCI).
Ahmed Taha Saeedi
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: 3D Printing of Concrete Buildings, Project Lifecycle Management, Process Optimisation, Construction Site Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Seyed Mahdi Akbarimoosavi
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Optimal Cooling in Additive Manufactured Injection Moulds, Thermo-fluid Mechanics and Energy Conversion, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer,
Faisal Pathan Khan
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Machine learning, Deep learning, Data analytics, Software development
Surinder Pal
PEM PhD Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanocomposites, Fracture Mechanics, Stress Corrosion Cracking, Material Characterization, Additive Manufacturing, Metal Casting, Designing and Simulation and Product Design
