Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation (CSI)
CSI
The Sensors and Instrumentation Group develops and exploits detectors, instrumentation, and data analysis methods. We apply our work to research in high energy particle physics, space science, medical imaging, and remote instrumentation and control. Data processing techniques include Grid computing, genetic programming and visualization.
A member of the CSI team at work in CERN
Videos
Professor Peter Hobson, of the School of Engineering and Design, is the group leader of Brunel University's Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation. Here he describes the contributions members of the Centre have made to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, highlighting other applications in data analysis, large-scale computing and medical applications of radiation which have been developed as a result of their expertise in particle physics.
Tom Walker, who is currently working towards his PhD in the Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation, describes his laboratory experiments in X-ray fluorescence. His experiments are being used to understand data from the C1XS X-ray camera, which was flown on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission in 2008-9.
Research
Projects
Projects
- Chandrayaan-1
- CMS
- GridPP
- ISTA
- MICE
- Public Outreach
- MarsXRD
- Raman-LIBS
Members
Director
Research Leaders
- Dr. Jo Cole - Lecturer
- Prof. Akram Khan - Professor in Grid Communications
- Dr. Paul Kyberd - Senior Lecturer
- Dr. Dawn Leslie - Senior Lecturer
- Dr. Roger Powell - Senior Lecturer
- Dr. David Smith - Lecturer
- Dr. Liliana Teodorescu - Senior Lecturer
Research Staff
- Dr. Raul Lopes - Research Fellow
- Dr. Henry Nebrensky - Research Fellow
- Dr. Ivan Reid - Research Fellow
Research Support
- Mr. Christopher Selby - Technician
Research Students
- Ruzalina Baharin
- Rajiv Bose
- Matthew Chadwick
- Xiaoya Chen
- Etienne Desjardins
- Richard Fenning
- Jason Gow
- William Martin
- Przemyslaw Stys
- Philip Symonds
- Thomas Tawiah
- Thomas Walker
About
Head of Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation:
Postal Address
Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation
Electronic and Computer Engineering
School of Engineering and Design,
Brunel University,
Uxbridge, Middlesex,
UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0) 1895 266 799
Location in University
Centre for Sensors and Instrumentation
Top floor of Tower D
