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Dr. Gareth Conway is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast's School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, associated with the Institute of Electronics, Communications & Information Technology (ECIT). His research focuses on wearable and implantable antennas, wireless medical sensors, and electromagnetic propagation for healthcare applications. He holds over 40 publications and five antenna-related patents, with industry collaborations enhancing wearable system performance. Awards include the 2014 Early Career Researcher Impact Prize and the Mobile World Scholar Award (2018).
- Education: PhD from Queen's University Belfast (2005-2008)
- Roles:
- Research & Development Engineer at Wireless Fibre Technologies (2008-2011)
- Research Fellow at QUB (2011-2013)
- Senior Lecturer at ECIT (2013-present)
Research Interests: Wearable/implantable antennas, human tissue-physics modeling, printable microwave materials, wireless medical sensors, and computational electromagnetism for body-centric networks. His work aligns with UN SDG 3 (Good Health) and SDG 9 (Industry/Innovation).
Key Projects: EPSRC grant EP/P000983/1 (implantable antenna repeaters), KTP project with Creagh Concrete (sensor-based concrete production). He organizes conferences like the All-Ireland Workshop on Wearable/Implantable Antennas.
Grants/Awards:
- QUB Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher Impact Prize (2014)
- Mobile World Scholar Award (2018)
- Award for Sensor-based Digitisation in Concrete Production (2022)
Students: Supervised 3 PhD students (e.g., on implantable antennas, frequency-selective surfaces, and wearable identification systems).
Labs/Teams: Centre for Wireless Innovation at ECIT, collaborating with industry partners like Sensata Technologies.
