Lourdes Alwis
lourdes alwis

Dr Lourdes Alwis

Lecturer

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

 

Reviewing

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

 

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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Micro-structured optical multi-mode fibers for sensing applications

Conference Proceeding
Bremer, K., Alwis, L., & Roth, B. (2020)
Micro-structured optical multi-mode fibers for sensing applications. In Proceedings Volume 11355, Micro-Structured and Specialty Optical Fibres VI. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563899
Grating-based Fiber Optic Sensors (FOSs), i.e. relying on Bragg Gratings (BGs), Long Period Gratings (LPGs), Tilted Fiber BGs (TFBGs), have seen a popularity in recent years f...

Evaluation of the potential of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (in press)
Evaluation of the potential of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites
The paper presents an evaluation on the structural and operational potential of fiber optic sensors (FOSs) to be utilized for real-time continuous structural health monitoring...

Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology

Conference Proceeding
Kerrouche, A., Lithgow, J., & Alwis, L. (in press)
Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology
Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be a ongoing concern. The act to provide clean water by filtration is effective although has concerns. P...

Feasibility Study on the Potential of Fibre Bragg Gratings for Thermal Monitoring of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries

Conference Proceeding
Alcock, K., Grammel, M., Binetti, L., Gonzales Vila, A., Goh, K., & Alwis, L. (in press)
Feasibility Study on the Potential of Fibre Bragg Gratings for Thermal Monitoring of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries
Bragg Gratings were used to monitor thermal fluctuations of a Lithium-Ion battery by attaching the sensors outside the casing of the battery. Results are comparable to that ob...

Towards Mode-Multiplexed Fiber Sensors: An Investigation on the Spectral Response of Etched Graded Index OM4 Multi-Mode Fiber with Bragg grating for Refractive Index and Temperature Measurement

Journal Article
Bremer, K., Alwis, L. S. M., Zheng, Y., & Roth, B. W. (2020)
Towards Mode-Multiplexed Fiber Sensors: An Investigation on the Spectral Response of Etched Graded Index OM4 Multi-Mode Fiber with Bragg grating for Refractive Index and Temperature Measurement. Applied Sciences, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010337
An investigation on the feasibility of utilizing Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) for simultaneous measurement of Surrounding Refractive Index (SRI) and temperature using a si...

External Refractive Index Sensitivity Enhancement of a Long Period Grating by Graphene Oxide Overlay

Conference Proceeding
Dissanayake, K., Ghosh, S., Binetti, L., Rente, B., Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. (2019)
External Refractive Index Sensitivity Enhancement of a Long Period Grating by Graphene Oxide Overlay
In this paper, an external refractive index sensor is presented based on a graphene oxide coated long period grating and based on creating a stable graphene oxide coating on t...

Determination of the Aspect-ratio Distribution of Gold Nanorods in a Colloidal Solution using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy

Journal Article
Kumar, R., Binetti, L., Nguyen, H. T., Alwis, L. S. M., Agrawal, A., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2019)
Determination of the Aspect-ratio Distribution of Gold Nanorods in a Colloidal Solution using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy. Scientific Reports, 9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53621-4
Knowledge of the distribution of the aspect ratios (ARs) in a chemically-synthesized colloidal solution of Gold Nano Rods (GNRs) is an important measure in determining the qua...

Functionalized Carbon Reinforcement Structures with Optical Fibre Sensors for Carbon Concrete Composites

Conference Proceeding
Bremer, K., Alwis, L. S. M., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Heibig, R., & Roth, B. (2019)
Functionalized Carbon Reinforcement Structures with Optical Fibre Sensors for Carbon Concrete Composites. https://doi.org/10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8872285
Here we present our latest efforts in the development of functionalized carbon reinforcement structures (FCSs). FCSs are textile based carbon structures that are functionalize...

Measurement of viscoelasticity of sodium alginate by Fibre Bragg Grating

Conference Proceeding
Binetti, L., Stankiewicz, A., & Alwis, L. (2019)
Measurement of viscoelasticity of sodium alginate by Fibre Bragg Grating. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019015033
A novel sensor for measuring viscoelastic properties of sodium alginate (SA) in distilled water of concentration (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 w/w%) has been tested. The s...

Durability of functionalized carbon structures with optical fiber sensors in a highly alkaline concrete environment.

Journal Article
Bremer, K., Alwis, L., Zheng, Y., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2019)
Durability of functionalized carbon structures with optical fiber sensors in a highly alkaline concrete environment. Applied Sciences, 9(12), https://doi.org/10.3390/app9122476
The paper presents an investigation into the durability of functionalized carbon structures (FCS) in a highly alkaline concrete environment. First, the suitability of optical ...

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