Nature-Inspired Innovation
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Nature-Inspired Innovation
Fri, 21/11/2025 - 14:00 to 14:30
Speaker:
Prof Marc Desmulliez
Affiliation:
HWU
Synopsis:
This short talk will present what is nature-inspired innovation, the challenges to enter this field and the current research carried out to establish a methodology to harvest knowledge from nature. Examples ranging from VelcroTM, gecko feet to dandelion seeds will be provided.
Biography:
Marc is former Associate Principal for impact, founder and manager of the £12M Medical Device Manufacturing Centre (www.mdmc.ac.uk) and Professor in Smart Systems Integration at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
He has held grants of compounded value of more than £52M as Lead or co-Lead, published over 532 journal papers or conference proceedings articles, and holds 10 patents and 3 Design Rights. He span out Microstencil Ltd in 2003, a spin-out company specialized in flip-chip bonding technology using stencil printing. The technology was transferred to DEK in 2011 and now is used in all mobile phones in the world. His second company, Microsense Technologies Ltd, aims at non-destructive testing using microwave sensing. This initiative got him the shared £90K first prize in the Converge Challenge 2016, arguably the most prestigious entrepreneurship award in Scotland. His research interests include medical devices, microwave sensing and bio-inspired manufacturing, more precisely the understanding and translation of natural processes to manufacturing principles, an arguably new topic of research in engineering.
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