Lourdes Alwis
lourdes alwis

Dr Lourdes Alwis

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 0131 455 2423

  L.Alwis@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Following a first class (Hons) degree in Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering from City University London (2005), Lourdes was offered a scholarship to commence a part-time PhD at the same establishment. She completed her thesis on the optimisation of polymer coated long period grating-based sensors for structural health monitoring applications, in 2013.

Lourdes has significant industrial experience, having worked within the R&D section of Alcatel-Lucent Ltd. for over 7 years, a company specialising in design, implementation, build and test of optical fibre telecommunications products. The work at Alcatel-Lucent has given her valuable industrial experience through which she gained both practical and industry focused approach, especially in the field of optical fibre technology.

Since joining Edinburgh Napier in 2013, she has been actively conducting her research career within the highly topical field of optical fibre sensors. She had been working on a range of projects from civil engineering to biomedical engineering applications where state-of-the-art sensors are utilised.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Session Chair for "Strategies for Supporting Women in Sensors" for IEEE Sensors 2020 (online)
  • Planning committee member for "Women in Sensors Professional Networking event with Equate Scotland" for IEEE Sensors 2017, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Session Chair for "Women in Sensors" at IEEE Sensors 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest Editor for MDPI Sensors
  • Guest Editor for MDPI Applied Sciences

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Australian Water Association’s New South Wales Water Award for Research Innovation 2017
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant Reviewer for the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MoHERI) in the Sultanate of Oman
  • Grant Reviewer for EPSRC, UK

 

Invited Speaker

  • Invited Talk at Sir John Kothelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka
  • Invited Talk at Scottish Association for Marine Sciences (SAMS), UK
  • Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Applied Optics and Photonics 2016, Germany

 

Reviewing

  • Peer Reviewer for MDPI Sensors Journal
  • Peer Reviewer for MDPI Applied Sciences Journal
  • Peer reviewer of SEBE research outputs for REF 2021
  • Peer Reviewer for IEEE Sensors council (conferences)
  • Peer Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Peer Reviewer for IEEE Sensors journal
  • Peer reviewer of SEBE research outputs for REF 2014
  • Peer Reviewer for Elsevier Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
  • Peer Reviewer for Elsevier Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

 

Visiting Positions

  • Guest Researcher at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
  • R&D collaborator with Network Rail, UK
  • Guest Researcher at Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT), Liebniz University, Germany
  • Guest Researcher at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
  • Guest Researcher at Sri Lanka Insitute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC), Sri Lanka
  • Guest Researcher at R&D labs, Sydney Water Corporation, Australia
  • Guest Researcher at Macquarie University, Australia
  • Guest Researcher at the University of LImerick, Ireland
  • Guest Researcher at University of Navarra, Spain
  • Guest Researcher at City, University of London, UK

 

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Evaluation of Viscosity Dependence of the Critical Meniscus Height with Optical Fiber Sensors

Journal Article
Binetti, L., Simpson, F., & Alwis, L. S. M. (2021)
Evaluation of Viscosity Dependence of the Critical Meniscus Height with Optical Fiber Sensors. Sensors, 21(23), Article 8130. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21238130
Conventional means of data extraction using optical fiber interrogators are not adequate for fast-paced detection of a target parameter. In this instance, the relationship bet...

An Accessible Method of Embedding Fibre Optic Sensors on Lithium-ion Battery Surface for in-situ Thermal Monitoring

Journal Article
Alcock, K., Grammel, M., González-Vila, A., Binetti, L., Goh, K., & Alwis, L. (2021)
An Accessible Method of Embedding Fibre Optic Sensors on Lithium-ion Battery Surface for in-situ Thermal Monitoring. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 332(1), Article 113061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2021.113061
Presented is a proof of concept to evaluate the suitability of a mounting technique for fibre optic sensors (FOSs) to measure Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) temperature. Two mounti...

Novel Technique for Meniscus Height Measurement of Liquids Using Optical Fibers

Journal Article
Binetti, L., & Alwis, L. S. M. (2021)
Novel Technique for Meniscus Height Measurement of Liquids Using Optical Fibers. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(18), 20092-20098. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2021.3100644
A novel technique was designed to measure the meniscus height (MH) of liquids on a standard single mode fiber (SMF) using fiber optics. Once the MH is known, the contact angle...

Fiber Optic Sensors Embedded in Textile-Reinforced Concrete for Smart Structural Health Monitoring: A Review

Journal Article
Alwis, L. S. M., Bremer, K., & Roth, B. (2021)
Fiber Optic Sensors Embedded in Textile-Reinforced Concrete for Smart Structural Health Monitoring: A Review. Sensors, 21(15), https://doi.org/10.3390/s21154948
The last decade has seen rapid developments in the areas of carbon fiber technology, additive manufacturing technology, sensor engineering, i.e., wearables, and new structural...

Editorial on Special Issue “Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication”

Journal Article
Alwis, L. S. M., Bremer, K., & Roth, B. (2021)
Editorial on Special Issue “Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication”. Applied Sciences, 11(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041589
Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page. Optics and photonics are among the key technologies of the 21st century and offer the potential for nove...

Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., & Roth, B. (2020)
Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications. In Optical Fiber Sensors Conference 2020 Special Editionhttps://doi.org/10.1364/OFS.2020.T3.7
The work presents an investigation on the utilization of an etched Graded-Index (GI)-Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) for mode-multiplexed Fiber Optic Sensor (FOS) applications and the ...

All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D

Journal Article
Walter, J., Alwis, L. S. M., Roth, B., & Bremer, K. (2020)
All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D. Sensors, 20(23), https://doi.org/10.3390/s20236771
An all-optical plasmonic sensor platform designed for smartphones based on planar-optical waveguide structures integrated in a polymer chip is reported for the first time. To ...

Monitoring of the Critical Meniscus of Very Low Liquid Volumes Using an Optical Fiber Sensor

Journal Article
Binetti, L., Del Villar, I., Prabuddha Dissanayake, K., Stankiewicz, A., Sun, T., Grattan, K. T. V., & Alwis, L. S. M. (2020)
Monitoring of the Critical Meniscus of Very Low Liquid Volumes Using an Optical Fiber Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(20), 12232-12240. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.2999537
A novel sensing system based on single mode optical fiber in reflective configuration has been developed to measure the critical meniscus height (CMH) of low volumes of liquid...

Optical fibre thermometry using ratiometric green emission of an upconverting nanoparticle- polydimethylsiloxane composite

Journal Article
Kumar, R., Binetti, L., Nguyen, .. H., Alwis, L. S., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. (2020)
Optical fibre thermometry using ratiometric green emission of an upconverting nanoparticle- polydimethylsiloxane composite. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2020.112083
The thermally coupled green band emission from excited Er 3+ ions has been used in the past to create optical thermometers, by doping the material in various types of media, p...

SPR biosensor based on polymer multi-mode optical waveguide and nanoparticle signal enhancement

Journal Article
Gabriela Walter, J., Eilers, A., Alwis, L., Wilhelm Roth, B., & Bremer, K. (2020)
SPR biosensor based on polymer multi-mode optical waveguide and nanoparticle signal enhancement. Sensors, 20(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/s20102889
We present a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor that is based on a planar-optical multi-mode (MM) polymer waveguide structure applied for the detection of biomolecules ...

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