David Smith

Dr David Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Brunel University London, affiliated with the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences and the Sensors and Instrumentation Research Group. He serves as UG EEE Course Director and Radiation Protection Supervisor, with expertise in radiation detection and space instrumentation.

• Education: PhD in Radiation Damage in Charge Coupled Devices (University of Leicester), MPhys in Physics with Space Science and Systems (University of Kent), PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
• Research: Focuses on radiation testing of solid-state sensors, scintillator development for neutron detection, and dosimetry techniques for space and terrestrial applications. His work addresses space weather effects and high-temperature radiation-hard detectors.
• Publications: Recent studies include FLUKA-code modeling of YSO:Ce detectors (2024), europium-doped scintillators (2022), and quantum dot radiation sensors (2021). His article trends span radiation detection, space instrumentation, and computational modeling.
• Awards: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
• Teaching: Develops courses in sensors, programming, and analogue electronics for undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
• Supervision: Mentored 8 PhD students, including Nadeera Gunaratna Mudiyanselage and Uthayanath Suthakar, with research spanning plasma cathode electron guns and scintillator design.
• Grants: Principal investigator for FEUD (2021-2022), providing 30% recycled content for packaging (2020-2022), and high-temperature radiation detectors (2013-2016).