Professor Stuart Reid
Biomedical Engineering
Personal statement
Prof Stuart Reid FRSE leads a multidisciplinary team working across medical and astrophysics/quantum research areas. He is Co-director of the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment (http://glasgow.thecemi.org) and Director of the Extreme Performance in Optical Coatings testbed (www.epoc.scot) at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (www.nmis.scot). He is co-inventor of “nanokicking”, where nanoscale vibrations are used to persuade stem cells to turn into bone in the lab (ACS Nano 2013, Nature BME 2017). He is in the process of co-founding a company (Nanokick Technologies) to help supply bone graft (the most transplanted tissue after blood) for regenerative medicine. UK Charity, the Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation, is funding the first-in-man study of nanokicked stem cells, planned for 2025/26, with the aim to provide bone graft for patients injured by land mines. The first in vivo study of nanokicking using wearable vibration devices was trialed in partnership with the Scottish Centre for Innovation in Spinal Cord Injury at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.12.578222). Reid's lab is also developing and manufacturing some of the most advanced laser mirrors in the world, to enable future gravitational wave detectors to be limited entirely by quantum effects. The team has pioneered the first high-energy ECR (electron cyclotron resonance) ion beam deposition facility, manufacturing the world’s lowest absorption sputtered amorphous silicon (PRL 2018) and highest sp3 content sputtered diamond-like carbon. The EPOC facility is one of the largest ion beam deposition facilities in the world and can coat two optics of 620mm diameter (up to 200kg each) reaching optical absorptions <0.5ppm at 1064 nm in HRs. Reid is also Director and CEO of BRL Laser Damage (www.laserdamage.co.uk) which provides the UK's photonics industry with Laser Induced Damage Threshold (LIDT) tests and pass/fail certification for specified laser powers.
Prize And Awards
- Appointed member of the Royal Society's Research Grants Board
- Recipient
- 1/1/2020
- Chair of the LSC Optics Working Group
- Recipient
- 28/3/2019
- FRSE
- Recipient
- 1/3/2019
- International Advisor to the Stanford-led Centre for Coatings Research (CCR)
- Recipient
- 1/9/2017
- Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- Recipient
- 1/8/2017
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers UK, top 5 innovations – “Black holes and broken bones”
- Recipient
- 1/7/2017
Publications
- Broadband fluorescence enhancement on anodization-derived gold nanobowl arrays
- Adelt M, Lau KHA, Wallace GQ, Yaala MB, Reid S, Yin J, Chen X, Birch DJS, Chen Y
- Materials Today Communications Vol 55 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2026.115926
- GW240925 and GW250207 : astrophysical calibration of gravitational wave detectors
- Abac AG, Ben Yaala Marwa, Armstrong Steven, Fazio Mariana, Gier Chalisa, Oke Ilerioluwa, Reid Stuart, , ,
- Physical Review Letters Vol 137 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/gzrj-mwv3
- Mechanical phenotyping of MG63s following vibrational stimulation
- Pereira Sousa Rui Pedro, Reid Stuart, Dalby Matthew J, Jimenez Melanie, Childs Peter G
- FASEB Journal Vol 40 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202504885R
- All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
- , Armstrong Steven, Ben Yaala Marwa, Fazio Mariana, Gier Chalisa, Reid Stuart
- Physical Review D Vol 113 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/83j3-pgk1
- Optical, composition, durability, and environmental properties of the microwave plasma-assisted sputter-deposited silicon nitride
- Lindsay Connor, Garcia Nuñez Carlos, Fleming Lewis, Brinkley Ian, Pomfret Jonathan, Mazur Michal, Kot Malgorzata, Zhu Wenzhong, Saunders Kirstin, Reid Stuart, Herguedas Elen, Redondo-Cubero Andres, Gibson Des
- Applied Optics Vol 65, pp. A176-A186 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.578043
- Black hole spectroscopy and tests of general relativity with GW250114
- , Aiello L, Anderson S B, Andia M, Armstrong S, Baker A M, Baker T, Bell A S, Bentley J D, Yaala M Ben, Berry C P L, Blair C D, Boyle M, Brooks A F, Brown B C, Brown D D, Carlin J B, Carter J J, Chakraborty A, Chan J C L, Chen D, Chen H Y, Chen H Y, Chen S, Cheng H P, Chou C, Clark A, Clark J A, Clarke T A, Collins J, Cumming A, Darroch K E, Das R, Davis D, Davis P, Ding J, Docherty J P, Esposito M, Evans M, Fazio M, Fernandes J, Fleming L S, Ganguly A, Gardner J W, Gardner K A, George J, Gibson D R, Gier C, Grassia P, Gray C, Gray R, Green A C, Green L, Green S M, Green S M, Guo H, Guo Y, Gupta S K, Hall E D, Hamilton E Z, Hanson J, Hendry M, Hewitt A L, Hill S, Hough J, Hu Q, Huang Y, Huang Y, Iqbal M H, Jadhav S J, Jadhav S J, Jiang J, Johnson N A, Johnston M C, Johnston R, Jones D I, Jones D I, Jones R, Joshi P, Joshi S K, Ju L, Khan F, Kim C, Kim J C, Kim K, Kim M H, Kim S, Kim Y-M, Kinnear M, Kwon S, Lawrence J, Lee H M, Lee H M, Lee J, Lee R, Lee R, Li T G F, Li X, Li Y, Li Z, Lin F, Lin L C-C, Lindsay C, Liu G C, Liu Jian, Longo A, Macleod D M, Malik A, Martin I W, Martin R M, Martinez V, McLeod A, Mihaylov D P, Miller S J, Mitchell A L, Mitchell J G, Moore C J, Murray P G, O'Reilly B, O'Shea S, Pan J, Park J, Patel A V, Patterson B G, Paul S, Peng X, Peters S, Plunkett C, Qi H, Reid S, Richardson J W, Robertson C, Robinson M, Ross M P, Roy S K, Roy S K, Sanchez A, Sanchez L E, Scott J, Sharma A K, Shi Z-H, Singh N, Singh S, Smith J R, Smith L, Smith R J E, Smith W J, Stark C J, Stevenson S P, Sun J, Sun L, Suresh J, Talbot C, Tao L, Thomas M, Thompson J E, Todd M R, Trevor M, Wade L E, Wade M, Wallace L, Wang E J, Wang H, Wang J Z, Wang W H, Wang Y F, Warner J, Weaver B, Williams B M, Williams D, Williams M J, Williams N S, Wilson L, Wong K, Wright J L, Wright M, Wu C, Wu H, Wu Y, Wu Z, Xu Y, Yang K Z, Yang Y, Zhang L, Zhang R, Zhang T, Zhao C, Zhao Z-C, Zheng Y, Zhou H, Zhu H O, Zhu Z-H
- Physical Review Letters Vol 136 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/6c61-fm1n
Professional Activities
- High throughput mechanical phenotyping of nano vibrated mesenchymal stem cells using real time deformability cytometry
- Speaker
- 10/6/2024
- Visit of a Chancellor-led delegation group of Guangzhou Medical University to Strathclyde
- Participant
- 29/5/2024
Projects
- Teledyn - Manufacture of double side AR coating sapphire substrates
- Reid, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Ben Yaala, Marwa (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Optical Bench Engineering Model
- Reid, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Fazio, Mariana (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2026 - 01-Jan-2027
- UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Adams, Charlotte
- Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Adams, Charlotte (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Investigations in Gravitational Radiation
- Reid, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Fazio, Mariana (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Perry, Yasmin
- Pattanakuhar, Sintip (Principal Investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Perry, Yasmin (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- BIOME: Bioplastic Injection-moulding Optimisation and Microplastics Evaluation
- Bomphray, Iain (Principal Investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Seth, Sampan (Co-investigator) Shu, Will (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026