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Professor Hywel Morgan

 MBE
Professor of Bioelectronics

Research interests

  • Microfluidics
  • Bio-sensors
  • Lab-on-a-chip technologies

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Accepting applications from PhD students.

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Profile photo 
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Name 
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Job title 
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Research interests (for researchers only) 
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In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.

Contact details 
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ORCID ID 
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Accepting PhD applicants (for researchers only) 
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About

Hywel Morgan is professor of bioelectronics in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) having moved from the University of Glasgow in 2003.

From 2016 to 2022 he was deputy head of school research, responsible for the REF 2020 submission, and he also led the development of the school’s biomedical engineering undergraduate degree programme.

In 2001 he was awarded a Royal Society-Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and in 2004 won the Desty memorial prize for innovation in separation science.

From 2013 to 2017 he was a Royal Society industry fellow with Sharp Labs. 

He is co-founder and director of Verso Biosense, developing implantable vital signs sensors, and iFast Diagnostics commercialising rapid antimicrobial resistance tests.  

He is a scientific advisor to several companies including Nuclera Nucleics.

He has published nearly 300 journal papers, and is editor of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.

From 2015 to 2020 he held a Royal Society Wolfson research merit award.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the IET.

In 2019 he was elected a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and in 2020 he was awarded an MBE for services to Biomedical Engineering.

You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.

Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.

You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.