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Dr Ginu Rajan

Dr Ginu Rajan

Department: Department of Applied Computing and Engineering

Office/Location: Cardiff School of Technologies, Llandaff Campus

Telephone:

Email: GRajan@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Staff Overview

​Dr Rajan is a Senior Lecturer at School of Technologies - Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia, a Senior Researcher at UNSW Sydney, Australia and a Project Manager/Research Associate at the Technological University Dublin, Ireland.

He obtained a PhD degree in Engineering from Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He has published over 150 articles in journals, conferences and as book chapters, and two patents are also filed. 

He is the editor/author of the books “Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications” and "Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures using Fiber Optic Methods", both published by CRC Press. He serves as a technical program committee chair and member of conferences in the area of optical fiber sensors and smart composite materials, editorial board member/associate editor and reviewer of several journals, and assessor for funding applications of the Portugal Science Foundation, Polish Science Foundation and Australian Research Council.

His research and teaching expertise and interests include optical fibre sensors and their engineering applications in biomedical and structural health monitoring fields. He also promotes work integrated learning and  entrepreneurship in undergraduate/postgraduate teaching.

Teaching

I am available for PhD/MPhil/ME/BE supervision on the below topics/areas:

  • Fibre optic sensors for biomedical devices and applications
  • Sensing systems for smart composite structures
  • Fibre optic technology for next generation dental instrumentation
  • Structural health monitoring using fibre optic methods
  • Photonic sensing solutions for biomaterials applications
  • Physics of photonic devices and sensors

Research

My research interests and focus are on the below areas:

  • Optical fibre sensors
  • Engineering applications of optical fibre sensors
  • Smart composites and structures
  • Biomedical and biomaterials sensing
  • Structural health monitoring using fibre optic methods

Key Publications

Books

1. Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures: Using Fiber Optic Methods”, Ginu Rajan and Gangadhara Prusty (Eds), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), ISBN 9781498733175, Sept 2016 

2. Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications, Ginu Rajan (Eds), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), ISBN 9781466568105, 2015


Patents

1. Rajan. G, Semenova. Y, Farrell. G, "Optical fibre temperature sensing device", UK Patent, GB 2 457 903, Granted June 2012.

2. Prusty G, Rajan G, Shouha P, Ellakwa A, “Dental Composite”, PCT Application, filed October 2018.


Refereed Journal Articles

1. Rajan G, Wong A, Farrar P, and Prusty BG, “Post-gel polymerisation shrinkage profiling of polymer biomaterials using a chirped fibre Bragg grating” Scientific Reports,  Vol. 11, 1410, 2021. 

2. Oromiehie O, Rajan G, Prusty G and Compston P, “Automated Fibre Placement based Composite Structures: Review on The Defects, Impacts and Inspections Techniques”, Composite Structures, Vol 224, 110987, 2019

3. Oromiehie E, Prusty B G, Compston, and Rajan G, “In-situ process monitoring for automated tape placement (ATP) using Fiber Bragg grating sensors”, Structural Health Monitoring, DOI: 10.1177/1475921716658616, 2016.

4. Rajan, G., Noor, Y, M., Ambikairajah, E., Farrell, G., and Peng, G-D., "A Polymer Micro-fiber Bragg grating", Optics Letters, Vol. 38, No. 17, pp. 3359-3362, 2013.

5. Rajan, G., Liu, B,, Luo, Y., Ambikairajah, E., and Peng, G-D., "High sensitivity force and pressure measurements using etched singlemode polymer fiber Bragg gratings", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol 13, Issue 5, pp. 1794-1800, 2013. 


Magazines/News

Other Projects and activities

Research Grants and Projects

  • Mercury free fibre reinforced dental composites and its instrumentation, CRC-P, 2019-2022, A$3M, Role- Chief Investigator from UOW.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges, Road and Maritime Services Commercial research contract 2019, A$33K, Role- Chief Investigator
  • Developing spinal implants with in vivo load-sensing capabilities, AOSpine Asia Pacific Research Grant 2019, A$7K, Role- Chief Investigator
  • Clinical utility of a novel residuum-socket interface sensor for normal and shear stress measurement, ISPO ANMS Research Grant 2017, A$ 10K, Role- Chief Investigator
  • Flowable composite system with short S-glass fibre and halloysite nanotubes, ARC Linkage grant, 2016-2019, A$360K,  Role- Chief Investigator
  • UOW-DIT Ireland research collaboration on optical fibre sensing and their applications, UOW UIC grant, A$12K, 2016, Role- Lead Investigator
  • CASS Foundation Travel Grant 2015, A$3.6K, Lead Investigator
  • Fibre optic sensors for crack detection in composite structures, UOW Vice-Chancellors Research Fellowship, ~A$125 K/year, 2015-2017, Role- Lead Investigator
  • Polymer micro fibre sensors for biomedical applications, UNSW FRC grant, A$28K, 2013, Role Lead Investigator.
  • Fibre optic sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices, UNSW Vice-Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship, ~A$100K/year, 2012-2014, Role- Lead Investigator
  • Sensorized intra-luminal staplers for laparoscopic surgical anastomosis, Science Foundation of Ireland TIDA funding, €100K, 2012-2013, Role- Co-Principal Investigator
  • Fabrication of an arrayed waveguide grating for a hybrid fibre optic sensor demodulation system, National Access Program funding (Ireland),~€30K, 2011, Role-Principal Investigator
  • Macro-bend fibre temperature sensor and its applications, Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept Fund, 2008-2010, Role:- Project Leader/Co-PI
  • Integration of research, learning and teaching in fibre optic sensing technology-Funded by National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, Ireland, €16K, 2010-2011, Role- Co- PI


Editorial/Chairing Activities: 

  • Associate Editor - Frontiers in Sensors
  • Editorial Board Member - Sensors
  • Section Editor - Handbook of Optical Fibres, Springer Publishers
  • Symposium Co-Chair, Photonics, Sensors and Optoelectronics, within CAMS2018, The 6th conference of the combined Australian Materials Societies, 2018, Wollongong
  • Theme Leader, Structural Health Monitoring: The 9th Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics, 2017, Sydney
  • Technical Committee Co-Chair - 15th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2015


Technical Program Committee Member:

  • IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2021
  • Engineers Australia 11th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, 2021
  • SENSORCOMM 2019, The 13th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, Nice, France
  • 5th International Conference on Sensors and Electronic Instrumentation Advances, 2019, Tenerife, Spain
  • IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2018, Seoul, Korea
  • IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2017, New Jersey, USA 
  • Asia-Pacific Conference on Optical Sensors, 2016, Shanghai, China
  • International Seminar of Photonics, Optics and Applications, 2016, Indonesia
  • All Sensors 2016, Venice, Italy
  • International Conf on Sensors Engineering and Electronics Instrumental Advances, 2015, Dubai,
  • 2nd Global Conference of Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE 2013), Hubei, China
  • 2014 Global Conference on Polymer and Composite Materials (PCM 2014), Ningbo, China

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