Dr Roderick Shepherd

Qualifications:

BEnvSc (Hons), University of Wollongong
PhD, University of Wollongong

Research interests:

After completing a PhD on conducting polymer chemical sensors at the University of Wollongong Rod took a research fellowship in the National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Ireland. He worked on a range of environmental sensing systems and associated conditioning electronics, and was involved in a collaborative project with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) developing novel low-cost LED chemical and optical sensors.

In 2003 he was appointed as a visiting research scientist at MERL in Boston to further develop LED optical sensors in collaboration with both DCU and MELCO Japan. Rod returned to DCU in 2004 where the focus was on developing wireless chemical sensor networks based on LED sensing technologies for environmental applications.

In 2007 Dr Shepherd returned to the University of Wollongong to join the IPRI/ACES team as a Research Fellow. He has been involved in a number of projects since his return including the development of novel conducting polymer drug delivery systems, inkjet printed chemical sensors and electroactive polymer microstructures for muscle cell regeneration. Recently he joined an ARC funded project involving IPRI, Ian Wark Research Institute (University of South Australia) and Visiocorp Australia Pty Ltd, developing conducting polymer electrochromic mirrors for automotive applications.

Research Interests:

  • Conducting Polymers
  • Sensors
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Key publications:

  1. Jung Ho Kim, King Tong Lau, Rod Shepherd, Yanzhe Wu, Gordon Wallace, Dermot Diamond, Performance characteristics of polypyrrole modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane based microfluidic pump, Sensors and Actuators A, 148 (2008) 239- 244.
  2. Simon Edward Moulton, Mark David Imisides, Roderick Leonard Shepherd and Gordon George Wallace, Galvanic coupling conducting polymers to biodegradable Mg initiates autonomously powered drug release, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18 (2008) 3608-3613.
  3. Roderick Shepherd, Stephen Beirne, King Tong Lau, Brian Corcoran and Dermot Diamond, Monitoring chemical plumes in an environmental sensing chamber with a wireless chemical sensing network, Sensors and Actuators B, 121 (2007) 142-149.
  4. King-Tong Lau, Susan Baldwin, Martina O’Toole, Roderick Shepherd, William
  5. S Yerazunis, Shinichi Izuo, Satoshi Ueyama and Dermot Diamond, A Low-Cost
  6. Instrument for Optical Sensing based on Paired Emitter-Detector LEDs, Analytica Chimica Acta, 557 (2006) 111-116.
  7. Roderick. L Shepherd, William S. Yerazunis, King Tong Lau and Dermot Diamond, Low-Cost Surface-Mount LED Gas Sensor, IEEE Sensors, 6(4) (2006) 861-866.

email address: rods@uow.edu.au
phone number : +61 2 4298 1433
fax number : 61 2 4298 1477
Office number: AIIM 231.234

Last reviewed: 14 October, 2009