Professor Geoff Merrett

Professor Geoff Merrett

 PhD, BEng, PGCert, FHEA, SMIEEE, MIET
Professor

Research interests

  • Energy management of mobile/embedded systems
  • Self-powered computing
  • Internet of Things

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

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Geoff Merrett is Professor of Electronic and Software Systems at the ÃÛÌÒTV. He is Head of the , a strategic  in the  (ECS), and Co-Director of the , an  industrial partnership between  and . He received the BEng (1st, Hons) and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from Southampton in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He was appointed as a Lecturer shortly after, promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, and Professor in 2019. He is a Senior Member of the , a Member of , and a Fellow of the .

Professor Merrett has served on the  (SAT) for the  since 2019, advising  on new research areas and strategy. He is a member of the  Steering Group (an EPSRC-funded network representing the UK’s electronic systems academic community), having previously served on its ECR Steering Group, and co-manages the UK’s  (co-organising its annual event from 2011-2016). He is a member of  and the , and also reviews proposals for Italy’s  (serving on , the Register of Expert Peer-Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation) and the . He is an active reviewer for a number of prestigious international journals, and serves on a number of TPCs for international conferences (e.g. Track Chair at DATE2023). He was a founder of the  (ENSsys, co-located with the  conference), serving as General Chair from 2013-15, and on its steering/organisation committees since 2016. He is a member of the Editorial Board for , and previously served as an Associate Editor for  and . He has been guest editor for special issues on , , , and . He co-edited the IET book on , containing  contributed by leading international researchers.

He currently leads a team of , having previously graduated  and line-managed  and . The quality of his PhD students has been externally recognised, for example winning the University's  competition in 2015, receiving Silver at , receiving the Gold Medal at Malaysia's , and winning the Best of Faculty award at the University's . He has been external examiner for 16 PhD theses, including students at Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, TU Delft, TU Dresden, Bologna, Newcastle, and York.

*information correct as of March 2023