Alex Weddell is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Smart Electronic Materials and Systems Research Group, in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. The school is the best in the UK for the quality and volume of research in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (REF 2014). He is the Technical Manager of the ARM-ECS Research Centre and a member of the management group for the Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems. He serves as Associate Editor for the IET Circuits, Devices & Systems journal. He is currently a co-investigator on an EU Clean Sky 2 project "Intelligent Integrated Bearing System", developing self-powered smart bearings for jet engines. He is also a co-investigator on the EU Horizon 2020 project "EnABLES: European Infrastructure Powering the Internet of Things" and the EPSRC Platform project "Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities".