Johnson, Mark

Stylianos-Alexios Tsekenis (M'15) was born in Athens, Greece. He received the BEng and EngD degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Manchester, UK in 2009 and 2013 respectively. He received the Pg.Dip degree in Enterprise management from Manchester Business School in 2011. In the past he has held posts at Intel Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell plc. and Blaupunkt GmbH, developing instrumentation systems that are now in world-wide use. He has provided technology and bespoke design consultancy services to clients in the events and motorsport industries and is the co-founder of SALTechips. In 2014, he joined the Agile Tomography Group at the University of Edinburgh, UK as a Research Associate. His current R&D interests are optical tomography systems to image the spatio-temporal distribution of gases. The systems are used to advance automotive, marine and aero engine technologies in order to reduce emissions and optimise energy efficiency. Dr Tsekenis has been awarded the Sir William Siemens medal (Siemens UK, 2008), the Dick Cleland Prize (University of Manchester, 2009) and the Innovation Prize (China International Transducer & Sensor Contest, 2014). He represented the University of Manchester at the Global Young Scientist Summit (National Research Foundation Singapore, 2013) and is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology since 2005.