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Profile
Prof Taylor was born in Wanstead, Essex, UK, in 1952. He received BSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College, London University in 1973 and 1984 respectively.
From 1984 to 1985 he held the post of Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where worked on certain theoretical aspects of switched-capacitor filter design.
He joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London in 1985 and subsequently, in 2002, the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, where he holds the position of Professor of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics and Director of the Centre for Advanced Sensor Technologies.
Research
Prof Taylor’s current research interests are in the fields of analogue and mixed analogue and digital system design, especially low-power implantable systems for biomedical applications and interfacing between tissue and electronics. For example, a current project aims at increasing the functionality of systems for chronic recording of electroneurogram (ENG) signals.
Together with colleagues at University College, London, the University of Aalborg (Denmark) and the University of Freiburg (Germany), he has been developing a technique that allows the classification of neural activity in terms of its velocity spectrum. This approach allows the level of activity in nerve fibres of different diameter to be measured, providing information about the origin and destination of the neural traffic.
A second application area seeks to provide a cheap, easy to use alternative to patch clamping as a method of measuring cellular activity for applications such as high throughput screening (HTS). This method seeks to avoid the use of expensive and complex equipment and the need for highly trained staff by employing standard CMOS technology that is both very cheap and readily available.
The technique also provides an ideal platform for a range of biosensors of great current significance in medical and defence applications. Although the material surfaces of the ICs are modified to form biocompatible electrodes, no expensive specialist post-processing is required. The A UK patent has recently been filed on this invention.
Professor Taylor has published more than 160 technical papers in international journals and conferences and has co-edited a handbook on filter design. He is a regular presenter and invited speaker at international conferences and symposia.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Projects
- 13 Finished
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Detecting Bladder Volume and pressure from Sacral Nerve Signals: the Key to Future Artificial Control
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/07/17 → 31/03/21
Project: Research council
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TYRELESS - Integrated Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems for Smart Truck Tyre Monitoring
Bowen, C., Khanbareh, H. & Taylor, J.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/04/17 → 31/03/18
Project: Research council
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CResPace - Adaptive Bio-electronics for Chronic Cardiorespiratory Disease
1/01/17 → 31/12/22
Project: EU Commission
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IAA - Power Generation from Clothing
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
5/08/13 → 8/09/13
Project: Research council
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Biodetection of Water Contaminants II
Estrela, P., Bowen, C., Bowen, C., Frost, C., Frost, C., James, T., James, T., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. & Taylor, J.
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
30/03/12 → 31/05/14
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Energy harvesting of cathodic protection currents in subsea and marine structures for wireless sensor power and communication
Hudson, S. M., Taylor, J. T. & Bowen, C. R., 15 Jun 2022, In: Applied Energy. 316, 119133.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Noise-activated barrier crossing in multi-attractor spiking networks
Taylor, J., Chauhan, A., Taylor, J., Shilnikov, A. & Nogaret, A., 7 Jun 2022, In: Physical Review E. 105, 5, 064203.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Resilience of Neural Electronics to High Magnetic Fields
Graham-Harper-Cater, J., Nogaret, A., Blakes, H., Metcalfe, B. & Taylor, J., 31 Aug 2022, In: Journal of Electronic Materials. 51, 8, p. 4161-4168 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Design of a Low Noise, Multi-Channel Recording System for use in Implanted Peripheral Nerve Interfaces
Sadrafshari, S., Metcalfe, B., Donaldson, N., Granger, N., Prager, J. & Taylor, J., 1 May 2022, In: Sensors. 22, 9, 3450.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Array Processing of Neural Signals Recorded from the Peripheral Nervous System for the Classification of Action Potentials
Metcalfe, B., Hunter, A. J., Graham-Harper-Cater, J. & Taylor, J., 1 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 347, 108967.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (SciVal)11 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Multi-channel Recordings from L2 Dorsal Root of Rat
Metcalfe, B. (Creator), Taylor, J. (Researcher) & Chew, D. (Data Collector), University of Bath, 2016
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00249
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Dataset for 'Manufacture and characterization of porous ferroelectrics for piezoelectric energy harvesting applications'
Roscow, J. (Creator), Taylor, J. (Creator) & Bowen, C. (Creator), University of Bath, 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00451
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Dataset for 'Modelling and fabrication of porous sandwich layer barium titanate with improved piezoelectric energy harvesting figures of merit'
Roscow, J. (Creator), Lewis, R. (Creator), Taylor, J. (Creator) & Bowen, C. (Creator), University of Bath, 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00452
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