Dr Andrew Baxter Reid
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
I am a Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and a recent recipient of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship which is allowing me to study acoustically powered soft robotics. My work is heavily based in 3D printed structures, integrating piezoactive and conductive layers in a single build to create smart sensors and actuators. Soft robotics created with integrated 3D printed structures opens up an overwhelming new design space which I hope to expore over the next five years.
I've completed all my studies at Strathclyde University, studying Electrical and Mechanical Enginnering at undergraduate (2008-2012) then completing my PhD in bio-inspired sound localization in 2016. Much of my PhD and early career research was focused on insect hearing and communication, with the goal of creating a miniaturized directional microphone for sound localization and signal processing. In 2016 I started a post doctoral position in the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering, again working on bio-inspired acoustic sensors and exploring the possibilities that were allowed by 3D printing the sensors, which lead to the design of a novel cochlear implant currently in development by Hemideina. In 2019 I was awarded the Leverhulme fellowship and in 2020 I was promoted to Lecturer as a Chancellor's fellow.
I have an eclectic range of research interests, which reflects the interdisciplinary nature of my research history. I'm particularly interested in directional transduction, bio-inspired design and 3D printed sensors and actuators.
Prize And Awards
- 2023 IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Runner-Up Award
- Recipient
- 28/7/2023
Publications
- From nature to technology : mosquito-inspired acoustic signal amplification
- Pastor Sar Jose Daniel, Windmill James, Reid Andrew Baxter
- 190th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (2026)
- 3D-printed airflow hair sensor inspired by the buthus occitanus scorpion’s flat trichobothria
- Martinelli Samuele, Reid Andrew Baxter, Windmill James F C
- IEEE Sensors Journal Vol 26, pp. 1428-1435 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2025.3635869
- Development of acoustic & airflow sensors inspired by the flat hair-like sensilla of Buthus Occitanus scorpion
- Martinelli Samuele, Reid Andrew, Windmill James
- UK-FR PhD Annual Conference 2025 (2025)
- Additive manufacturing of an airflow sensor inspired by the flat trichobothria of scorpions
- Martinelli Samuele, Reid Andrew Baxter, Windmill James F C
- FLEPS 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS) 2025 FLEPS 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, Proceedings, pp. 1-4 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/FLEPS65444.2025.11105673
- Mechanical study of 3D-printed insect and arachnid bio-inspired hair acoustic sensor for separate frequency band acquisition
- Martinelli Samuele, Reid Andrew Baxter, Windmill James
- 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (2025)
- Explaining the monoaural directional hearing of the moth Achroia grisella
- Díaz-García Lara, Reid Andrew, Windmill James FC
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface Vol 22 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0752
Professional Activities
- 6th Joint Meeting Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan
- To be assigned
- 4/12/2025
Projects
- UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Elshaikh, Hussain
- Windmill, James (Principal Investigator) Reid, Andrew Baxter (Co-investigator) Elshaikh, Hussain (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Ultrasonic Oil Switch Condition Monitoring
- Windmill, James (Principal Investigator) Reid, Andrew Baxter (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- Enhancement of patterned ionogel sensors through templated methods and woeven conductive materials
- Reid, Andrew Baxter (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- BRAINS Strathclyde CDT 2023 | Shaw, David
- Reid, Andrew Baxter (Principal Investigator) Witte, Kimia (Research Co-investigator) Fazio, Mariana (Research Co-investigator) Shaw, David (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- BRAINS Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training
- MacKenzie, Lewis (Principal Investigator) Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator) Witte, Kimia (Principal Investigator) Jimenez, Melanie (Principal Investigator) Chow, Shiao (Principal Investigator) Fu, Ying (Principal Investigator) Gomez-Roman, Natividad (Principal Investigator) Fazio, Mariana (Principal Investigator) Reid, Andrew Baxter (Principal Investigator)
- Centre for Doctoral Training in Bridging Research and Advancements in Neurological Sciences (BRAINS). First cohort of PhD students starting autumn 2023.
- 01-Jan-2023
- Patterned ionogel based acoustic sensors
- Reid, Andrew Baxter (Principal Investigator) Jackson, Joseph (Co-investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Dr
Andrew Baxter
Reid
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: andrew.reid@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted