David Barrow
BSc, PhD(Wales), FIET
Professor
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
David Barrow currently researches compartmentalised, microscale constructs, using microfluidics for their formation, directed towards protocells, proto-tissue and artificial life. He is a key partner in the European Union funded Research consortium project entitled 'Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores to Decipher Protein Function' [ACDC] outlied at https://acdch2020.eu. and where he is pioneering fused filament multimaterial 3D printiing to enable radically new forms of integrated multifunctional microfluidic systems.
Barrow is a multidisciplinary scientist, and Professor of microfluidics at Cardiff University. He has researched a diversity of microfluidic based phenomena and devices, including chemical sensors, porous silicon, microacoustics, hybrid integration, micromolding, trasndermal microneedles, emulsion and digital microfluidics, chemicals separations, plasma etching, CFD, microwave sensors, laser micromachining and marine microanalysis systems. He was a founder of the UK metaFAB TSB open-access NanoCentre providing bespoke laser micromachining, MSTB Ltd. researching space microsystems, Protasis Corporation developing microdevices for chemicals separations, Q-CHIP Ltd. (merged with Midatech floted on AIM and NASDAQ listed) developing injectable microencapsulated pharmaceuticals, and the Cardiff Da Vinci Innovation Awards.
Biography
Education/ Qualifications
1972-1974 National Diploma in Electronic Engineering, N. Glos. Tech. College.
1975-1979 Cardiff University BSc (Hons.) 1st. Class, Natural Sciences (Zoology)
1979-1983 PhD:Resource Partitioning in Bombus species(Cardiff University); Nominated for the Huxley Award, Royal Zoological Society of London.
1995-2000 RAEng/EPSRC Senior Clean Technology Fellow on Precision Farming and Process Industries
2000-2005 Cardiuff Uiverrsity, Proferssorial Fellow
2005-2021 Cardiff Uiverrsity ,Proferssor Microfluidic Systems
Honours and awards
Esteem Summary·
- Researched and published on a wide diversity of subject fields applied to microfabrication, sensors & microfluidics, including: miniaturised instrumentation systems, organ transplant therapy, environmental monitoring, protocell formation, fusion energy targets, stem cell encapsulation, microwave sensors, cell-culture, chromatography, microneedles, etc.· Currently researches multiphase microfluidics applied to fusion energy and protocell formation·
- Author of 81 journal papers, patents and book chapters; Founded 4 microtech. companies ·
- Raised grant income of >£9.6 M from 13 funding bodies; trained 18 post-doctoral staff.·
- Supervisor of 28 PhD students; 27 graduated with 100% successful completion in 4 yrs·
- Examined 15 PhD theses. External examiner, Canterbury University (NZ), Madras University (I), National Science Foundation (USA) Dutch Government (NL),
- Flew on Team Ultrasound, 6th ESA Microgravity zero-g Parabolic Flight Campaign,
- Technical Consultant to ESA, Waters Corp., Thermofischer UK Ltd., Gyrus Medical Ltd., Daimler-Benz Aerospace, GSK Ltd. Modern Water Ltd., Q-Chip Ltd., Xtec Ltd.,·
- Involved in 7 European Projects; work founded the ESA Advanced Sensor Initiative·
- EPSRC College member (since 2001); reviewed many grant proposals & sat on many committees including round tables, focus groups, follow-on panels, selection panels, etc.·
- Elected to Cardiff University Senate; selection panel for 26 Chairs
- Advisory Board member TSB NanoKTN, Q-Chip Ltd.
- Invited member BBSRC Regenerative Biology and Stem Cell Working Group
- Founded Cardiff University Da Vinci Innovation Awards (2014-19)
- RAEng Reviewer and ASssessmernt Panel member for Leaders in Innovation Scheme (2018-2021)
Professional memberships
2014 Elected Fellow of the Institute for Engineering Technology
Pre-2012
| 2012 | National Science Foundation (USA) Examiner |
| 2011 | Member, EPSRC Engineering Prioritization Panel |
| 2011 | EPSRC Fellowships Panel |
| 2011 | KTP Technical Consultant to Modern Water Ltd. on microinstrumentation |
| 2011 | Member, EPSRC Career Accelaration and Leadships Selection Panel |
| 2010 | Royal Society Industry Fellowships Examination |
| 2010 | Examiner, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India |
| 2010 | Member, EPSRC expert panel: Materials & Medical Engineering |
| 2010 | Co-Chair, Q-Chip Ltd. Scientific Advisory Board |
| 2010 | Elected, Fellow of the Institute for Engineering & Technology |
| 2009 | Member, EPSRC expert panel: Follow-on Fund |
| 2009 | Technical consultant, ThermoFisher Ltd |
| 2008 | Member, NanoKTN Advisory Board |
| 2008 | Chair, Chemistry Innovation KTN Conference on Flow Chemistry |
| 2008 | Technical consultant, GSK Ltd |
| 2008 | Member, EPSRC expert panel: Follow-on Fund |
| 2007 | Chair, AILU Summer Conference on Microprocessing with Lasers |
| 2007 | Chair, EPSRC panel Ultrasonics |
| 2006 | Founder director TSB metaFAB Nanocentre |
| 2004 | Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Q-Chip Ltd |
| 2004 | Member, DTI Global Watch Microfluidics Mission to Germany |
| 2004 | Chief Scientific Officer , Q-Chip Ltd |
| 2004 | Member, Advisory Panel of the IEE Prof. Microsystems Network |
| 2003 | Inventor & Co-founder Q-Chip Ltd |
| 2003 | Session Chair, World Congr. Med. Phys. & Biomed. Eng. Australia |
| 2002 | Reviewer Dutch and New Zealand Government for MST developments |
| 2001 | Technical consultant, Glaxo Wellcome Ltd |
| 2001 | Member Toshiba Fellowships Committee |
| 2001 | Elected member of EPSRC electoral college |
| 2001 | Chair, Cardiff Centre for Multidisciplinary Microtechnology |
| 2001 | Member, EPSRC expert panel: High Throughput Technologies |
| 2000 | Technical consultant, Waters Corporation |
| 2000 | Inventor & co-founding director, Protasis Corporation USA |
| 2000 | Awarded, Cardiff University Professorship in Microsystems |
| 1999 | Member, Internat. Org. Comm. Transducers 99, Tokyo |
| 1999 | Member, EPSRC Round Table on Microsystems |
| 1999 | Member, EPSRC Expert panel on Microsystems Integration |
| 1999 | Honory member, Faraday Northwest Microsystems Consortium |
| 1998 | Member, Internat. Org. Comm., Eurosensors ’98, Southampton, UK |
| 1998 | Member, EPSRC Round Table, Engineering Challenges for 21st Century |
| 1998 | Member, DTI-EPSRC Foresight Laboratory-on-a-Chip consortium |
| 1997 | Member, International Organising Committee Eurosensors ’97 Warsaw |
| 1997 | Executive member, UK Microengineering Common Interest Group |
| 1997 | Technical consultant, Daimler Benz Aerospace |
| 1997 | Board Member NEXIS IV (EU Network on Multifunctional Microsystems) |
| 1996 | Member, COSPAR Scientific Commission F: Space Life Sciences |
| 1996 | Internat. Organ. Comm. & Sess. Chair, Eurosensors ’96 Stockholm |
| 1996 | Team Ultrasound, 6th ESA Microgravity zero-g Flight Campaign |
| 1996 | Board member, LIGA Club, Daresbury Laboratory, UK |
| 1995 | Awarded, RAEng Clean Technology Senior Fellowship |
| 1992 | Co-founding director, MSTB Ltd |
| 1990 | Technical consultant, Gyrus Medical Ltd |
Academic positions
Professional History
1974-1975 Aviation Electronics Test Engineer, Smith Industries, Cheltehnham
1983-1991 Founder Practitioner, ceramics enterprise (full-time)
1992-2005 Co-founder & Director, MSTB Ltd.
1995-2000 RAEng-EPSRC Clean technology Senior Fellow, Cardiff University
2000-2005 Professorial Fellow, Cardiff University
2005- Professor of Microfluidics, Cardiff University
2006-2011 Founder & Director, TSB Industry Open Access NanoCentre (MNT Network)
2000-2003 Co-founder & Director of Microtechnology Development, Protasis Corporation, USA.
2003-2005 Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Q-Chip Ltd
2011- Co-founder & Director, Nanosterics Ltd.
2011 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology
2014 Innovation Professor, Cardiff School of Engineering
Publications
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David Barrow's diverse research porfolio providses a reservoir of new avenues for both individual 3rd year and Group 4th year research projects, ranging from nuclear fusion targets, transdermal microneedles, acoustric trapping and microencapsulated pharmaceuticals.
Contracts
| Title | People | Sponsor | Value | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
AC-DC: Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores to Decipher Protein Function |
Barrow DA | EU-FET Proactive | 572298Euros | 01/01/19-31/12/22 |
| Transfer of expertise and access to microengineering related facilities | Barrow DA | KTP and Modern Water | 141346 | 15/05/2010 - 14/05/2012 |
| The development of a cheap and simple to use self-administrable micro-needle patch device for population-wide sampling of small blood volumes | Matthews I, Gallacher J, Gregory C, Hoogendorn B, Barrow D, Allendar, | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 61381 | 01/05/2012 - 31/10/2013 |
| Nanoscience | Barrow DA | Higher Education Funding Council for Wales | 792000 | 01/04/2004 - 01/04/2006 |
| MetaFAB | Barrow DA | Industrial Advisory Board | 48609 | 03/04/2006 - 02/04/2009 |
| MetaFAB | Barrow DA | DTI | 359999 | 03/04/2006 - 02/04/2009 |
| MetaFAB | Barrow DA | Welsh Development Agency | 400001 | 03/04/2006 - 02/04/2009 |
| Q-chip phase 1 marketing | Barrow DA | Welsh Development Agency | 2920 | 13/02/2003 - 13/05/2003 |
| Q-CHIP technology evaluation and exploitation roadmap | Barrow DA | Education and Learning Wales | 14862 | 26/08/2002 - 31/12/2002 |
| Micro nano education and training consortium (MNTec) | Barrow DA, Mr GJ Sparey-Taylor, Tasker PJ | Welsh Development Agency | 306000 | 01/04/2005 - 31/03/2006 |
| Mass-Manufacturing of Fluoropolymer Microreactors for chemical synthesis | Prof DA Barrow | Department of Trade & Industry | 48174 | 01/05/2002 - 30/10/2002 |
| Micro separations for the enhanced separation and detection of small molecules | Prof DA Barrow | GlaxoSmithKline | 45300 | 01/01/2001 - 31/12/2003 |
| Towards highly advanced membrane emulsification systems (THAMES) | Prof DA Barrow | Commission of European Communities | 175315 | 01/01/2002 - 31/12/2004 |
| Refurbishment of nanofabrication clean room | Prof DA Barrow, (with PHYSX) | Royal Society | 122433 | 01/04/2002 - 01/11/2002 |
| MNT Academy II | Prof DA Barrow, Dr RM Perks | National Assembly for Wales (KEF) | 413346 | 01/08/2006 - 31/12/2007 |
| New Hydrogen storage materials - Investigations through structural and electrical characterisation | Porch A, Barrow D | STFC | 26000 | 01/10/2012 - 30/09/2015 |
| Laser and microfluidic manufacture of novel bio-diagnostic platforms | Barrow D | Ser Cymru NRN AEM Swansea | 90800 | 01/10/2014 - 30/09/2017 |
| On line industrial water quality analysis system for rapid and accurate detection of pathogens AQUALITY | Barrow D | European Commission FP7 | 209757 | 01/12/2011 - 30/11/2013 |
| Virtual design for microfluidic encapsulation process | Barrow D, Jefferson A, Kerfriden P, Phillips T (MATHS) | Ser Cymru NRN Swansea AEM | 150000 | 01/01/2015 - 30/06/2018 |
| ECO-Laserfact-EC)-efficient LASER technology FACTories of the future | Bigot S, Setchi RM, Brousseau E, Petkov P, Barrow D | European Commission | 123091 | 01/05/2012 - 30/04/2015 |
Supervision
I have researched a very wide diversity of subject matter relating to a diversity of microfluidic based phenomena and devices, including chemical sensors, porous silicon, microacoustics, hybrid integration, micromolding, emulsion and digital microfluidics, chemicals separations, plasma etching, CFD, microwave sensors, laser micromachining and marine microanalysis systems.
Now, I am amalgamagting this knowledge in a, more-or-less singular pursuite, that being towards creating artificial life, enabled using droplet microfluidics, and working with experts in membrane physics and (bio)chemistry I am interested in supervising new PhD or masters students in this field.
Past projects
Supervised Students
| Title | Student | Status | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microwave Resonators For Highly Sensitive Compositional Analysis Of Solvents In Microcapillary Systems | MASOOD Adnan | Graduate | PhD |
| Microfluidic Devices To Facilitate In-Flow Medium Exchange, and Tuneable Size-Based Sorting of Microspheres | MORGAN Alex John Lewis | Graduate | PhD |
| COMPACT MICROWAVE MICROFLUIDIC SENSORS AND APPLICATOR | ABDULJABAR Ali Amin | Graduate | PhD |
| Microengineered Reactors and Multiphase Chemistry | AHMED Batoul | Graduate | PhD |
| Microfabricated Sample Preparation Systems | LEWIS Caroline | Graduate | PhD |
| Synthetic biology - Autonomous protocells | BAXANI Divesh Kamal | Graduate | PhD |
| An Encoded Microwell array For Mulit-Image Analysis Of Cells. | SAYERS Edward John | Graduate | PhD |
| The Application of Microfluidics To Continuous Water Toxicity Monitoring | MELE Emanuele | Graduate | MPhil |
| INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING | SPAREY-TAYLOR Graham John | Graduate | PhD |
| Use of microwave technologies in the detection of pathogenic bacteria | HAMZAH Hayder Miri Hamzah | Current | PhD |
| A Novel, Planar, Microfluidiic Junction for Multiphase Flow, Exemplified Through The Production Of Fusion Energy Targets, Encapsulated Mouse Nueron Stem Cells And Multi-Compartmental Capsules | LI Jin | Graduiate | PhD |
| Simultaneous Structrual and Dielectric measurement of Ammonia Storage Materials | HARTLEY Jon | Graduate | PhD |
| Microstructured Silicon for Use in Drug Discovery | SHAPLEY Julian Douglas Llewellyn | Graduate | PhD |
| MICROFLUIDIC PRODUCTION OF STEM-CELL MICROCAPSULES FOR REGENERATIVE HEALTHCARE. | HIDALGO SAN JOSE Lorena | Graduate | PhD |
| The Manufacture Of A Prototype Laser Machined Chromatographic Separations Column | SYKES Neil | Graduate | MPhil |
| Microfabricated Nuclear Fusion Energy Targets | INOUE Nicholas Tatsunosuke | Graduate | PhD |
| Design, Fabrication and Evaluation of a Microfluidic Molecular Imprinted Affinity Chromatography Device | CASTELL Oliver Kieran | Graduate | PhD |
| ANALYTICAL MICROSYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PRECISION FARMING AND THE MEASUREMENT OF SOIL pH | ROBLIN Patricia Mary | Graduate | PhD |