Dr Igor Timoshkin

Reader

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Leading Reseach in the Following Areas:

High Voltage Engineering, Pulsed Power Technology

Non-thermal Plasma For Environmental, Air Cleaning and Bio-Medical Applications

Bio-decontamination and Oxidation Using Atmospheric Non-therma Plasma Discharges

Pulsed Electric Fields for Lysis and Bio-Decontamination

Transeint Plasmas in Water and Dielectric Liquids: Fundamental Properties and Practical Applications

Novel Dielectric Liquids in Power and Pulsed Power Systems

Membership in Professional Organisations:

Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

Senior Member of the IEEE

Member of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Member of the IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society

Voting Member of the Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee in the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society

Member of The International Scientific Committee of the Series of International Conferences "Gas Discharges and Their Applications"

Subject Editor of IET Nanodielectrics

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Offering PhD opportunities/supervision in the following fields:

Environmental applications of non-thermal plasma
Air cleaning and decontamination by low temperatire transeint plasma
Plasma discharges in water
Dielectric properties of novel biodegradable insulation fluids for power and pulsed power applications
Pulsed power
Transient discharges in gases

Currently available Defined PhD Research projects under supervision of Dr Igor Timoshkin are listed here:

http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/research/electronicelectricalengineering/researchstudentships/

Prizes and awards

2016 Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award (Nomination in the "Most Enthusiastic" Category): Recipient; 14/5/2016
2013 Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award (Nomination in the "Most Supportive" Category): Recipient; 15/5/2013
Recipient of the Rolls-Royce Award to Inventors: Recipient; 4/2008

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Qualifications

MPhys, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

PhD, Imperial Colledge of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK

DIC, Diploma of Imperial Colledge, London, UK

PgCert Advanced Academic Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Publications

Breakdown characteristics of plasma closing switch filled with air, N₂, CO₂, and Ar/O₂: Yao Yuan, Timoshkin Igor V, MacGregor Scott J, Wilson Mark P, Given Martin J, Wang Tao; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2018.2856306
Characterisation and statistical analysis of breakdown data for a corona-stabilised switch in environmentally-friendly gas mixtures: Macpherson R W, Wilson M P, MacGregor S J, Timoshkin I V, Given M J, Wang T; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2018.2844954
Efficacy of antimicrobial 405 nm blue-light for inactivation of airborne bacteria: Dougall Laura R, Anderson John G, Timoshkin Igor V, MacGregor Scott J, MacLean Michelle; SPIE Photonics West 2018 BIOS (2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2289987
Pulsed ultraviolet light decontamination of artificially-generated microbiological aerosols: Dougall L R, Gillespie J B, MacLean M, Timoshkin I V, Wilson M P, MacGregor S J; IEEE 21st International Conference on Pulsed Power (PPC), 2017 IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference IEEE Pulsed Power Conference Proceedings (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2017.8291260
Acoustic impulses generated by air-bubble stimulated underwater spark discharges: Sun Y, Timoshkin I V, Given M J, Wilson M P, Wang T, MacGregor S J, Bonifaci N; IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Vol 25, pp. 1915-1923 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2018.007293
Modifications to the von Laue statistical distribution of the times to breakdown at a polymer-oil interface: Given Martin J, Wilson Mark P, Timoshkin Igor V, MacGregor Scott J, Wang Tao, Sinclair Mark A, Thomas Ken J, Lehr Jane M; IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Vol 24, pp. 2115-2122 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2017.006314

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Teaching

“Electromagnetism”, 19207, year 2 module (module registrar)

“Integrated Studies”, EE974, year 2 module, Communication project laboratories

Individual projects, 19496, year 4 module

“High Voltage Technologies and Electromagnetic Compatibility”, EE920, year 5/MSc level, (module registrar)

MSc projects, 19900, MSc level module

Teaching in the partner Universities in China under the framework of Articulation agreements

Professional activities

IET Nanodielectrics (External organisation): Advisor; 4/9/2018
Conference of the French Electrostatics Society: Participant; 29/8/2018
Universite Grenoble Alpes: Visiting researcher; 26/8/2018
24th Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases: Participant; 17/7/2018
External Examiner of PhD thesis, University of Southampton: Examiner; 14/3/2018
The Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee in the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (External organisation): Advisor; 1/1/2018

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Projects

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP - University of Strathclyde) | Dougall, Laura: MacLean, Michelle (Principal Investigator) Timoshkin, Igor (Co-investigator) Dougall, Laura (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2015 - 01-Jan-2019
Breakdown Mechanisms and Processes in Dielectric Fluids: Timoshkin, Igor (Principal Investigator) Given, Martin (Co-investigator) MacGregor, Scott (Co-investigator); 26-Jan-2014 - 30-Jan-2014
Plasma Channel Drilling - Halliburton Year 1 programme: Timoshkin, Igor (Principal Investigator) MacGregor, Scott (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2015
Non-thermal plasma for cleaning and decontamination applications: Timoshkin, Igor (Principal Investigator) Given, Martin (Co-investigator) MacGregor, Scott (Co-investigator); 10-Jan-2014 - 09-Jan-2016
“Non-thermal plasmas for cleaning and decontamination”, EPSRC Pathway to impact grant: Timoshkin, Igor (Principal Investigator) MacGregor, Scott (Co-investigator); I.V. Timoshkin, S. J. MacGregor, “Non-thermal plasmas for cleaning and decontamination”, EPSRC Pathway to impact grant, July 2012-Jan 2013, £20,000; 01-Jan-2012 - 31-Jan-2013
EPSRC DOCTORAL TRAINING GRANT | Hogg, Michael: Timoshkin, Igor (Principal Investigator) MacGregor, Scott (Co-investigator) Hogg, Michael (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2011 - 23-Jan-2016

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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