Zabih Ghassemlooy

Biography: Prof Ghassemlooy received BSc (Hons.) in electrical and electronics eng. from Manchester Metropolitan Univ.,  UK in 1981, and MSc (1984) and PhD (1987) from Univ. of Manchester, UK. 1987-88 was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, City Univ., UK. 1988 joined Sheffield Hallam Univ. as a Lecturer, becoming a Professor in 1997. 2004 joined Univ. of Northumbria, Newcastle as an Associate Dean (AD) for research in School of Eng., and from 2012 to 2014 was AD for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Eng., where he currently is Head of the Optical Communications Research Group. 2001 awarded Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship in Eng. from Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore. 2016 a Research Fellow and in 2015 a Distinguished Professor at Chines Academy of Science, Quanzhou, China. He is a Visiting Professor at the Univ. Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (2013-17), and Huaqiao Univ., China (2017-18). Published over 700 papers (300 journals and 6 books), over 91 keynote/invited talks, and supervised over 60 PhDs. Research interests include optical wireless communications, free space optics, and visible light communications. He was the Vice-Chair of EU Cost Action IC1101 (2011-16). He is the Chief Editor of the British Journal of Applied Science and Technology and the International Journal of Optics and Applications. He is the fellow of the IET, a senior member of IEEE, a member of OSA, and Charted Engineer. He is a co-author of a CRC book on “Optical Wireless Communications – Systems and Channel Modelling with Matlab (2012)