Dr Gerard Edwards
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Email address: G.Edwards@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 5233
Gerard started working as a Principal Lecturer in the Electronic & Electrical Engineering Division, School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, in Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) from Sep. 2021. Gerard is the Programme Leader for the suite of Electronic & Electrical Engineering MSc degrees Electrical Power And Control Engineering, Embedded Systems & IC Design and Wireless Communications, offered at LJMU.
Gerard pursued postdoctoral work at the Centre for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, USA, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA. He then worked as a Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader in the Department of Computer Science and then the Department of Engineering at the University of Bolton. He moved to the University of Chester in 2014 to lead the development of the new Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Degrees
1992, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, Ph.D. in Theoretical Semiconductor Physics
1988, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, MA(Oxon) Physics
Certifications
2013, The Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Academic appointments
Joint Acting Head of Computer Science and Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Engineering Subject Group, Computer Science and Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester, 2020 - 2021
Deputy Head of Electronic & Electrical Engineering Subject Group, Department of Computer Science and Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester, 2019 - 2020
Associate Professor of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester, 2019 - 2021
Acting Head of Department in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester, 2016 - 2016
Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester, 2014 - 2019
Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering, Sports and Sciences Academic Group, University of Bolton, 2011 - 2014
Senior Lecturer in Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Engineering & Science, University of Bolton, 2007 - 2011
Senior Lecturer in Computing and Networks, Computing and Electronics Technology, University of Bolton, 2002 - 2007
Journal article
Alharbi M, Edwards G, Stocker R. 2023. Reversible Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata-Based Arithmetic Logic Unit. Nanomaterials, 13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Alharbi M, Edwards G, Stocker R. 2023. Novel ultra-energy-efficient reversible designs of sequential logic quantum-dot cellular automata flip-flop circuits Journal of Supercomputing, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Alharbi M, Edwards G, Stocker R. 2022. Design and Simulation of Reversible Time Synchronized Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Combinational Logic Circuits with Ultralow Energy International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13 :1-22 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hajivandi J, Kaya E, Edwards G, Kurt H. 2021. Simulating topological robustness of Fano resonance in rotated Honeycomb photonic crystals Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications, 46 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Conference publication
Qiang M, Yu B, Feng J, Edwards G. 2019. Compare PID and PDF Control in 2 Degree of Freedom Robotic Manipulator Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Precision Machining, Non-Traditional Machining and Intelligent Manufacturing (PNTIM 2019), Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Precision Machining, Non-Traditional Machining and Intelligent Manufacturing (PNTIM 2019) DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET), Institute of Engineering and Technology, https://www.theiet.org/. 2008
Chartered Physicist (CPhys), Institute of Physics, https://www.iop.org/. 1994
Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP), Institute of Physics, https://www.iop.org/. 1994