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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Intensity-modulated PM-PCF Sagnac loop in a DWDM setup for strain measurement

Journal Article
Alwis, L., Madry, M., & Beres-Pawlik, E. (2019)
Intensity-modulated PM-PCF Sagnac loop in a DWDM setup for strain measurement. Applied Sciences, 9(11), https://doi.org/10.3390/app9112374
A novel intensity-modulated Sagnac loop sensor based on polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) in a setup with a dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM)...

Simultaneous Measurement of Temperature and Relative Humidity Using a Dual-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Ring Laser Sensor

Journal Article
Mądry, M., Alwis, L., Binetti, L., Pajewski, Ł., & Bereś-Pawlik, E. (2019)
Simultaneous Measurement of Temperature and Relative Humidity Using a Dual-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Ring Laser Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(20), 9215-9220. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2922041
A fiber ring laser sensor setup utilizing FBGs (Fiber Bragg Gratings) for simultaneous measurement of ambient temperature and relative humidity (RH) is presented. Two FBGs are...

Optical Fiber-Based Heavy Metal Detection Using the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique

Journal Article
Dhara, P., Kumar, R., Binetti, L., Nguyen, H. T., Alwis, L. S., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2019)
Optical Fiber-Based Heavy Metal Detection Using the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(19), 8720-8726. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2921701
An innovative, reflection-based localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) fiber-optic sensor has been developed and demonstrated to detect the concentration of several heavy ...

Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations

Conference Proceeding
Hook, D., Laing, W., Kerrouche, A., Barreto Gonzalez, D., & Alwis, L. S. (2018)
Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations. In 2018 IEEE Sensors Proceedings. , (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2018.8589835
Scour and slope instability are a major issue in keeping the railway structures safe and operational. Conventional measurement techniques do not allow real-time monitoring of ...

Graphene-Oxide and Hydrogel Coated FBG-Based pH Sensor for Biomedical Applications

Journal Article
Binetti, L., Stankiewicz, A., & Alwis, L. S. M. (2018)
Graphene-Oxide and Hydrogel Coated FBG-Based pH Sensor for Biomedical Applications. Proceedings, 2(13), 789. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2130789
A hydrogel coated fibre grating-based pH sensor for biomedical applications has been realised, where Graphene Oxide (GO) had been used to enhance the bonding between the coati...

Smart Jewellery: The Future Of Health Monitoring

Presentation / Conference
Alwis, L. S., & Vones, K. (2018, November)
Smart Jewellery: The Future Of Health Monitoring. Paper presented at U!REKA: Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance 2018, Frankfurt, Germany
The project has revolved around developing a responsive, wearable prototype object that creates playful interactions by sensing bodily and environmental stimuli, and expresses...

Evaluating the Performance of Functionalized Carbon Structures with Integrated Optical Fiber Sensors under Practical Conditions

Journal Article
Bremer, K., Alwis S. M., L., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Zheng, Y., Krüger, M., …Roth, B. (2018)
Evaluating the Performance of Functionalized Carbon Structures with Integrated Optical Fiber Sensors under Practical Conditions. Sensors, 18(11), 3923. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18113923
An Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR) based fiber optic sensor scheme “embedded” in concrete for the purpose of structural health monitoring (SHM) of carbon concret...

Integrated fiber Bragg grating incorporated textile carbon reinforcement structures

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Zheng, Y., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2017)
Integrated fiber Bragg grating incorporated textile carbon reinforcement structures. In 2017 IEEE Sensorshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234106
An optical fibre Bragg grating (FBG) based strain sensor network incorporated in a functionalized textile-based carbon structure (FTCS) that can be used for structural health ...

Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers

Journal Article
Bustamante, H., Alwis, L. S. M., Grattan, K. T. V., Sun, T., Vorreiter, L., & González, J. (2017)
Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers. Water e-journal, 2(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.21139/wej.2017.038
Humidity plays a key role in microbiologically induced corrosion of concrete gravity sewers. Minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. No reliable long lived (>...

Fibre optic strain sensor for carbon concrete composites

Conference Proceeding
Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Zheng, Y., Alwis, L. S. M., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2017)
Fibre optic strain sensor for carbon concrete composites. In 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
The work introduces textile based carbon structures that are functionalized with optical fibre sensors for structural health monitoring (SHM) of concrete based composites. The...

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