Awards & Recognition
Wellcome Accelerator Award
2026–2028
£200k
UKRI New Horizons Award
2023–2025
£252k
Nottingham Research Fellowship
2019–2022
£200k
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
2016–2018
£60k
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2024
EPSRC College Member
2024–present
Teaching & Learning
Digital Signal Processing
MSc & 4th year MEng · EEE & Bioengineering · 2022–present
Sensing Systems & Signal Processing
3rd year BEng EEE · 2022–present
Advanced Engineering Mathematics
3rd year BEng EEE · 2026–present
Project Supervision & Internships
~5 final year BEng, MEng & MSc projects annually
Affiliations
Optics & Photonics Research Group
University of Nottingham
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Advanced Photonics Nexus
Editor · SPIE/CLP · 2023–present
Selected Publications
Untangling cation and anion contributions to refractive index changes in electrical double-layer capacitors
Medel, Regules-Medel, Nelson, Hardiman, Dominguez, Somekh, Abayzeed
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. · RSC · 2026
Plasmonic imaging of living pancreatic beta-cell networks
Abayzeed, Galvis, Regules Medel, Jones, Barajas Gonzalez et al.
Scientific Reports · 16, 3993 · 2026
Plasmonic-based impedance microspectroscopy of optically heterogeneous samples
Abayzeed, Sidahmed A.
Biomedical Optics Express · 11(11), 6168–6180 · 2020
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