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 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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Textile carbon reinforcement structures with integrated optical fibre sensors designed for SHM applications

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L. S. M., Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2017)
Textile carbon reinforcement structures with integrated optical fibre sensors designed for SHM applications. In W. Jin, Y. Chung, B. Lee, J. Canning, K. Nakamura, & L. Yuan (Eds.), OFS-25 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2264915
An optical fibre-based strain sensor “stitched” to a functionalised carbon structure (FCS) that can be used for structural health monitoring is introduced. The aim of the desi...

Structural Health Monitoring Using Textile Reinforcement Structures with Integrated Optical Fiber Sensors

Journal Article
Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Zheng, Y., Alwis, L. S., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2017)
Structural Health Monitoring Using Textile Reinforcement Structures with Integrated Optical Fiber Sensors. Sensors, 17(2), 345. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17020345
Optical fiber-based sensors " embedded " in functionalized carbon structures (FCSs) and textile net structures (TNSs) based on alkaline-resistant glass are introduced for the ...

A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L. S. M., Bustamante, H., Bremer, K., Roth, B., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2017)
A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment. In 2016 IEEE SENSORS. https://doi.org/10.1109/icsens.2016.7808482
Research has identified that humidity plays a fundamental role on the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphuric acid during corrosion of concrete in gravity sewers and th...

Fibre Grating-based Sensor Design for Humidity Measurement in Chemically Harsh Environment

Journal Article
Alwis, L. S. M., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2016)
Fibre Grating-based Sensor Design for Humidity Measurement in Chemically Harsh Environment. Procedia Engineering, 168, 1317-1320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.359
A temperature compensated Relative Humidity (RH) sensor incorporating Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs) has been developed to be tested in extremely harsh gaseous acidic environment...

Evaluation of the durability and performance of FBG-based sensors for monitoring moisture in an aggressive gaseous waste sewer environment

Journal Article
Alwis, L. S. M., Bustamante, H., Bremer, K., Roth, B., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2017)
Evaluation of the durability and performance of FBG-based sensors for monitoring moisture in an aggressive gaseous waste sewer environment. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 35(16), 3380-3386. https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2016.2593260
Measurements of the rate of corrosion in concrete sewers need to take into consideration the humidity in the environment and thus its accurate measurement becomes critically i...

Temperature-compensated optimized relative humidity and refractive index sensors using a hybrid fibre grating configuration

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2016)
Temperature-compensated optimized relative humidity and refractive index sensors using a hybrid fibre grating configuration. https://doi.org/10.1109/icsens.2015.7370527
A temperature compensated Refractive Index sensor is formed using a combination of a Fibre Bragg Grating and a Long Period Grating fabricated together on a single optical fibr...

Characterization of a polyimide-coated humidity sensor in a hybrid fibre grating configuration

Conference Proceeding
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2015)
Characterization of a polyimide-coated humidity sensor in a hybrid fibre grating configuration. In J. L. Fabris, H. J. Kalinowski, & W. J. Bock (Eds.), https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2193678
A Relative Humidity (RH) sensor incorporating a Long Period Grating (LPG) and a Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) in a series configuration was developed and evaluated. The LPG was co...

[INVITED] Developments in optical fibre sensors for industrial applications

Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. (2015)
[INVITED] Developments in optical fibre sensors for industrial applications. Optics and Laser Technology, 78(Part A), 62-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2015.09.004
The development of intrinsic optical fiber pH sensors based on fluorescence from novel coumarin dyes which are covalently immobilized onto the distal end of the fiber is descr...

Optical Fibre Refractive Index Sensor in a Hybrid Fibre Grating Configuration

Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & T.V. Grattan, K. (2015)
Optical Fibre Refractive Index Sensor in a Hybrid Fibre Grating Configuration. Procedia Engineering, 120, 11-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.555
A temperature compensated Refractive Index (RI) sensor incorporating a Long Period Grating (LPG) and a Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) in a series configuration has been developed a...

A study of the impact of technology-enhanced learning on student academic performance.

Journal Article
Chowdhry, S., Sieler, K., & Alwis, L. (2014)
A study of the impact of technology-enhanced learning on student academic performance. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 2,
In university education a lot of emphasis is placed on the use of the virtual learning environment (VLE) in teaching to enhance the student learning experience. As a result, t...

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