Philip Catherwood

Biography

Dr Philip Catherwood is a lecturer in Engineering and a member of the Engineering Research Institute. He has developed his engineering skills over a number of years in leading Research and Development environments, including Nortel Networks and Daewoo Electronics. He is a Member of IEEE and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Philip has undertaken consultancy work for leading private and public organisations in the areas of bio-telemetry, RFID and diagnostics. Before taking up a full-time academic post at Ulster University, Philip worked as an Electronics Engineer developing bespoke measurement, diagnostic, & instrumentation solutions for applied research at Queen’s University, Belfast. Philip has been an invited speaker at the 2010 Intel European Research Innovation Conference, has published in international journals and conference proceedings, and is a manuscript reviewer for a number of international journals. He has also been a technical contributor to a recent IEEE White paper on “Safe Advanced Mobile Power – Consumer Electronics Future Directions Committee“. Philip has a BEng (Hons.) in Engineering from Ulster University (1997), a M.Sc. in Electronics from Ulster University (2001), and a PhD in Wearable Radio Communications from Queen’s University Belfast (2011). His teaching duties include module co-ordination and lecturing for RF Design, Signals and Systems, Communications Circuit Design, and Communications.

Research Interest

Philip’s research interests currently include rapid prototyping and system development of energy-efficient wearable wireless medical devices, Connected Health patient monitoring solutions, biotelemetry point-of-care diagnostics, and Internet of Things. He has expertise in bespoke scientific measurement equipment, portable medical devices, RF telemetry and high-speed optical communications devices, with his contribution to the Telecoms industry acknowledged through two prestigious industrial recognition awards.