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Dr Dimitrios Airantzis

  • Overview

    Overview

    Highlights

    • For my PhD project, I developed and tested a prototype device to reduce pathogens in human blood plasma in real time, without using antibiotics.  The device was shown to be effective against gram positive and gram negative bacteria, fungi and viruses.

    • Contibuted to the development of iCycle version 3.  iCycle is a training device that applies functional electrical stimulation in alternate cycles of the movement of feet of patients with spinal cord injury.  I contributed to the development of embedded analogue, power and digital electronics, the embedded software (PC and microcontroller), user interface and data telemetry.  The work was done in collaboration with the Implanted Devices Group in UCL Medical Physics and Bioengineering department.  The device is currently used with volunteer patients.

    • Contributed to the development of the FetalSense-M sensor, a multi-wavelength sensor to study the absorption of light in the placenta.  I contributed to the development of the circuit and the embedded software controlling the LED light sources, measuring and logging the corresponding light response and uploading the resulting telemetry data.

      This work was a collaboration with the MetaboLight Group in UCL Medical Physics and Bioengineering department.

    Qualifications

    • BEng Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1988
    • MSc Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Automation, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1990
    • MRes Healthcare Engineering for an Ageing Population, UCL, 2013
    • PhD Light Assisted Antimicrobial Therapies, UCL, 2020

    Administrative responsibilities

    • Programme director for the BSc Business Computing
    • Marker of the Computer Science MSc Aptitude Test

    Professional memberships

    • Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Software and Programming I (BUCI087H4)
    • Software and Programming II (BUCI088H5)
    • Software and Programming II (BUCI088H5)
    • Introduction to Web Authoring (SSCS004H4)
    • Introduction to Web Authoring (SSCS004H4)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Book Section

    • Roussos, George and Papadogkonas, D. and Taylor, J. and Airantzis, Dimitrios and Levene, Mark and Zoumboulakis, M. (2007) Shared memories: a trail-based coordination server for robot teams. In: Winfield, A.F.T. and Redi, J. (eds.) ROBOCOMM 2007: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. ICST/ACM.