The
Electromagnetic Measurements and Spectrum Certification Laboratory has been
established through the collaboration of theDepartments of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Physics of University of Cyprus. The laboratory
aims to provide high quality of scientific knowledge and research in the
area of electromagnetic fields and to better inform the community on
questions regarding possible health effects due to exposure to such
fields.Measurements and Spectrum Certification Laboratory has been
established
through the collaboration of the Departments of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and Physics of University of Cyprus. The laboratory aims to
provide high quality of scientific knowledge and research in the area of
electromagnetic fields and to better inform the community on questions
regarding possible health effects due to exposure to such fields.To promote
world class research in the
area of electromagnetic measurements and applications of electromagnetics.
The laboratory aims to provide state of the art infrastructure for
measurements and research as well as high quality educational programs in
the area of electromagnetic fields and their applications at both
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The highly skilled graduates are
expected to be able to find employment in key positions within the
European Union as well as Cyprus. Finally the laboratory aims at
fulfilling its obligation to the community, that is giving an unbiased and
better informed view on the long term effects of electromagnetic fields and
new technologies evolving based on electromagnetic fields.
Dr George Georghiou is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus. He
is the undergraduate course leader in Electrical Engineering at the
University of Southampton, Department of Electronics and Computer Science
and a Research Advisor for the Electricity Utilization, University of
Cambridge. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA
(1995), MEng (1996), MA (1997) all with distinction and PhD (1999), Dr
Georghiou continued his work at the University of Cambridge in the capacity
of a Fellow at Emmanuel College for a further three years (1999-2002).
His research interests lie predominantly in the utilization of
electromagnetic fields and plasma processes for environmental, food
processing and biomedical applications, BioMEMS, Nanotechnology and Power
Systems. Dr Georghiou has a special interest in the development of numerical
algorithms (both serial and parallel codes) applied to the characterization
of multiphysics problems, such as DNA sequencing, electronic manipulation of
nanoparticles, lightning and gas discharges. Dr Georghiou has published over 60 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
Amongst his many scholarly achievements, Dr Georghiou was awarded the
outstanding paper award by the Journal of Microwave Power and
Electromagnetic Energy in 1999 for the most significant technical scientific
contribution. Dr Georghiou is also actively promoting the entrepreneurship
role academics can play in society, and the commercialization of cutting
edge technology that stems from academic inventions.
During the last few years, the possible
health effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields has been a
very sensitive issue in Cyprus and worldwide, mainly due to the
existence of power substations and power lines near inhabited
areas and the extensive use of cell phones.
In
order to protect the public and people working under conditions of
increased electromagnetic exposure (such as power stations, near
phone masts, in front of computers etc) it has to be ensured that
the exposure levels are well below the international standards for
long term exposure. This is of utmost importance and as the
precautionary approach should be adopted until there is enough
scientific evidence to prove the role of electromagnetic fields on
human health.
In
this project, measurements of electric and magnetic fields take
place in areas of increased EM levels. These levels are registered
and finally compared to the international safety levels of exposure.
Dr
Charalambos D. Charalambous
joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University
of
Cyprus
in June 2003. He accepted his
first tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor with the
University
of
Ottawa
,
School
of
Information
Technology
and Engineering in 1999. Dr. Charalambous
has served in the faculty of
McGill
University
, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, as a visiting professor, from 1995 to 1999; from 1993
to 1995 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with
Idaho
State
University
, Engineering Department.
He received a B.S. degree in 1987, an M.S. degree in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in
1992, all in Electrical Engineering from
Old
Dominion
University.
His teaching and research interests lie in the theory of stochastic processes and their
applications in engineering, science, and finance. His publication record spans
topics in optimization of stochastic uncertain systems, games theory, control
and telecommunications/networks systems, queuing systems, large deviations,
information theory and statistical mechanics. Dr. Charalambous is leading a research group in
Information, Communication and Control of Complex Systems.
Nick Polydorides holds a B.Eng. degree in Electrical & Electronic
Engineering from UMIST, an M.Sc. in Computation from the University of
Oxford and a Ph.D. in Electromagnetic Inverse Problems from UMIST. He is the
author of EIDORS 3D, the standard package for Electrical Impedance
Tomography research, which has now become a Sourceforge project. For a two
year period after his graduation he was employed by the School of
Mathematics at the University of Manchester as a research fellow under a Smith Institute Faraday Partnership to work on high-frequency anisotropic
inverse problems in liquid crystals, in collaboration with Hewlett Packard
Research Labs at Bristol.
He is currently working on inverse spectral theory and the problems of force spectroscopy and impedance imaging in atomic force microscopy. His
research interests are in regularization theory and algorithms for ill-posed
inverse problems, numerical methods for partial differential equations, and
interior point methods in constrained
optimization.
Panos Razis is a Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Cyprus. He is a graduate of the University of Athens (B.Sc. in Physics) and Yale University (M.Sc., M.Ph. and Ph.D. in Physics). He worked as a Post-doctoral Associate at Yale University, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at ETH Zurich, and as a Research Associate at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN).
His research interests are in high energy/elementary particle physics, with emphasis on electroweak physics and experimental testing of unifying field theories. He specializes in developing magnetic, search, alignment and calibration systems and he has special interests in the analysis of experiments with the use of supercomputers. He has also undertaken work on cosmological models, implementations of Particle Physics in Medicine and on possible biological effects of electromagnetic fields on the human body.
He partakes in worldwide research collaboration with Universities and Research Institutes such as L3 and CMS in accelerators at CERN. He is currently leading many research projects in Cyprus, some of them, which are related to the mapping and simulation of electromagnetic fields caused by high frequency sources.
He has published over 300 papers in international scientific journals and magazines and has participated in several international conferences.
RESEARCH THEMES
Electromagnetic Measurements
and Certification
Impact of electromagnetic
fields on human body
Application of
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o Biomedicine
o Telecommunications
o Nanotechnology
o Food processing
Computational
Electromagnetics and Coupled Problems (serial and parallel codes)
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Measurements,Electromagnetic Fields
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