Elfed Lewis was born in Holyhead, Wales in 1959. He graduated with BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Liverpool University in 1981. He was awarded a PhD from University of Liverpool in 1987 for work on high speed photography and spectroscopy of electric circuit breaker arcs during the current zero phase. Following this, he worked as development engineer with BICC Telecom. Cables, Prescot, Merseyside in conjunction with University if Liverpool developing chromatic modulation based optical fibre sensors for a wide range of applications. In 1989 he Joined Liverpool John Moores University where he initiated the research activity in Optical Fibre Sensors. The group investigated sensors for environmental monitoring including water contamination and pH. In 1996 he joined University of Limerick at which time he established and has since led the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre. He is Professor and Director of the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre at University of Limerick. He is Fellow of Institute of Physics, IET, Royal Society of Chemistry and Senior member IEEE. He has authored and co authored more than 200 journal papers and made in excess of 150 contributions to international conferences. He currently holds 9 patents on Optical Fibre Sensor Devices. He was honoured with Institute of Measurement and Control Finkelstein Award for excellence in International Research in July 2024. He was recipient of the University of Limerick President's Research
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