Yuliya Semenova

Biography

Yuliya Semenova is a graduate of Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine of 1992. She received her PhD Degree in Physics of Liquid Crystals from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1999. Between 1997 and 2001 she worked as a researcher at the faculty of Electrophysics at the Lviv Polytechnic National University. Since 2001 she has been with the School of Electronic and Communications Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She is a lecturer and senior researcher in the DIT’s Photonics Research Center. Her research interests include photonics, fiber optic sensing and optics of liquid crystals. She has published over 180 journal and conference papers.

Research Interest

Optical fibre sensing, with a focus on novel types of sensors: Multimode interference based sensors, e.g., singlemode-multimode-singlemode and other fibre heterostructures; Photonic crystal fibre sensors; Micro- and nano-tapered and fibre microresonator sensors; Plasmonic sensors; Bend loss sensors. Engineering, medical and environmental applications of optical sensors with a specific interest in: Microfibre and nanowire sensors for bio- and chemical sensing; Novel fibre sensors of electro-magnetic fields, temperature, pressure and other physical parameters. Physics and applications of liquid crystals in photonics.