| Assoc Prof Christopher Shearwood
Fellow, Renaissance Engineering Programme
Associate Professor
Division of Manufacturing Engineering
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: MCSHEARWOOD@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 5524
Office: N3.2-02-73 |
| Education |
- PhD The University of Leeds 1988
- BSc The University of Leeds 1984
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| Biography |
| Assoc Prof Christopher Shearwood has been attached to the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering since 1998. He is closely affiliated to the MEMS Research Centre. He graduated from the Department of Physics, Leeds University, UK with a Physics Honours Degree in 1984 and then a PhD in Solid State Physics in 1988. His research supervisor was Professor D. Greig. |
| Research Interests |
| Assoc Prof Christopher Shearwood main research focus are in the area of MEMS, BIOMEMS, sensors and actuators although he has also accumulated experience in transdermal drug delivery, spintronics, thin film magnetism, x-ray topography, electron and ion beam lithography, shape memory alloys, and nano-metals. He has published over 40 top quality international journal papers, as well as numerous conference papers, book chapters, and patents. |
| Research Grant |
- Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) (2012-)
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| Current Projects |
- Development of bio-chambers to support the reproducible growth of multiple-specices biofilms
- Smart, anti-microbial micro-needles for transdermal drug delivery
| Selected Publications | - H.B. Ng, C. Shearwood, T.J. White, L.G. Yu, K.A. Khor. (2008). Spark plasma sintering of silver nanopowder. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging (Proceedings of SPIE), 6799(67990B).
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