Dr Dimitrios Airantzis

Overview

Biography

Dimitrios Airantzis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1967. He received a BEng in Electrical Engineering in 1988, and an MSc in Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Automation in 1989, both from Imperial College, London. He received an MRes in Engineering for an ageing population and a Ph.D. in Light assisted antimicrobial therapies in 2013 and 2020, respectively, both from UCL, London.

From 1990 till 2010, he participated in numerous projects involving the development of embedded systems, supervised installations of industrial and renewable energy systems, provided software and hardware engineering support of sales of components, primarily microcontrollers.

From 2015 till now, he also teaches subjects in programming and electronics.

He shares a passion for the development of new systems and the training of the next generation of hardware and software engineers. He transfers the experience acquired from his work in the development of embedded systems into teaching.

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

Research

Research interests

• Development of embedded systems for use in medical research

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Module convenor, 

Teaching of modules.

Teaching modules

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

Publications