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Dr Ishara Dharmasena

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University

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Ishara’s research focusses on super-smart textiles and wearable electronics for remote health monitoring, telerehabilitation and sports. Prior to academia, Ishara worked in textiles and nanotechnology industries. He leads Loughborough University’s SuS-Tex research cluster for next-generation wearable technologies. Ishara has showcased his work in outreach events like Royal Society Summer Science, RAEng Innovation late, and via media channels including BBC.

EMERGE activity

Ishara is supporting EMERGE to create an ECR network in rehabilitation and to deliver an ECR forum.

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Dr Ben Coomber

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Dr Lulu Xu

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Debbie Butler

Debbie Butler

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