School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Born in Botswana and schooled in Africa, Rob studied Electronics at Bangor University in Wales, before working with Hewlett Packard Ltd in Scotland.  After Postgraduate studies in Bangor he moved to Loughborough as a Lecturer and has remained there ever since

Expertise
Active control of periodic structures
Antennas
Communications
Frequency-selective surfaces
Leaky wave antennas
Metamaterials
Microwave and mm-wave engineering
Microwave photonics
Modelling and Simulation (including virtual/synthetic environments)
Optical control of microwaves
Wearable computing
Wireless Communications
Biomedical engineering

Keywords
Fabric Antennas
Small Antennas

1976 - 1978 Analogue Design Engineer at Hewlett Packard Ltd in South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland

Research Interests include Passive Microwave devices and antennas.  Packaging of microwave devices has been a majorr interest and is the subject of one current PhD programme.  Current Reseach interests include -

Microwave Device Packaging

3-D antenna arrays

Switched antenna systems

Polarisation dependent surfaces

Propagation control within buildings

Antenna

Tunable and switchable microwave filters

Fabric antennas

Current topics are -

Second year Communications

Microwave Communications Systems to third year

Microwave Circuits to finalist MEng

Communications Channels at MSc. level and MEng finalist level.