Queens University of Belfast, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, Wireless Communications Research Group, EPSRC/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Simon L. Cotton received the B.Eng. degree in electronics and software from the University of Ulster, Ulster, U.K., in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, U.K., in 2007. Since graduating, Dr Cotton has worked as a Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, where he has investigated mobile ad hoc networking of dismounted combat personnel, low power personnel and asset tracking using RFID and wireless control for aircraft. In April 2010 he was awarded a highly prestigious five year Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) to investigate next generation body centric communications. The RAEng Research Fellowship is hosted within the Wireless Communications Research Group of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), Queen's University of Belfast. Among Dr Cotton's research interests are millimetre-wave technologies for personal communications and novel applications of short-range radio systems. His other research interests include radio channel characterization and modelling for wireless body and personal area networks, measurements for transceiver diversity in bodyworn applications and simulation of wireless channels. He has authored and co-authored over 35 publications in major IEEE/IET journals and refereed international conferences, and one book chapter. He has acted as an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences and will co-chair a special session on -'Propagation in Body Area Networks' at this year's European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Rome, Italy. In July 2010, he was awarded the H.A. Wheeler Prize by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the best applications journal paper in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2009.
