MEFISTA Coordinator funded by Royal Academy of Engineering to work on wind turbines

June 2023

The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded Mefista Coordinator Dr. Sergey Sergeyev nearly £100,000  to develop an affordable technique for monitoring the efficient working of wind turbine blades.

“My project is primarily based on fiber optic sensors—called fiber Bragg grating sensors—which have high sensitivity to distortions, such as stretch, twist, and bend, which change the shape of the composite material. To explore such property, we will advance our recently developed polarimetric technique to detect the structural defects,” Dr. Sergeyev adds.

Read more about the topic here:

https://www.azooptics.com/News.aspx?newsID=28312

MEFISTA Coordinator wins Leverhulme Research Grant

June 2023

MEFISTA Coordinator Dr Sergey Sergeyev at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies at Aston University has been awarded a research Leverhulme research grant for harnessing collective dynamic structure.

Read more about the topic here:

https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/research-project-grants/harnessing-collective-dynamic-structures

Dr Sergey Sergeyev of Mefista wins Leverhulme Trust