Elizabeth Rendon-Morales
Elizabeth Rendon-Morales is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Design at the University of Sussex. Her areas of expertise include sensors, electronics, robotics and telemetry systems; and her current research is concentrated on the design, development and testing of sensing electronic systems and medical instrumentation. Within the sensing area, she is leading the development of advanced sensing devices to monitor electrocardiogram [ECG] signals on living organisms, including zebrafish, premature babies and foetuses during early pregnancy and throughout labour. On the robotics area, she is leading the development and integration of micron level sensors and precision instrumentation tools to achieve high linearity and repeatability, which could contribute to the next generation of surgical robotic systems.
In 2016, Elizabeth was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND post-doctoral fellow. She completed her PhD in communications engineering and telemedicine applications at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain. She has a BSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering from National Autonomous University of Mexico, School of Engineering, and a MSc degree in wireless communications from ITAM/ Telecom Bretagne, Rennes France. She’s also got industrial experience, having worked on the evaluation of wireless technologies from Nortel Networks, Alcatel, Ericson at the America MovilAT&T research laboratories in USA & Mexico.
Since 2017 she has led an outreach program to promote Women’s Participation in Science and Engineering. She is the leader of the Sussex Women in Engineering Society (WES) and the Athena SWAN chair at the School of Engineering and Informatics. She is passionate about encouraging young women to pursue careers in science and engineering, and she is especially motivated to inspire her three-year-old daughter, Ely. A talented science communicator, Elizabeth has been an invited speaker to events to communicate her research to non-technical audiences (e.g. Soapbox Science 2018; the Big Bang Fair 2019); and liaised with press to communicate her research on sensor developments in the media (i.e. Jan 2019 “Stress-free way to listen to your unborn baby’s heartbeat” in Reuters Media Press).