Dr Qiang Wu

Associate Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Qiang Wu

Dr. Qiang Wu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Physics & Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is also an adjunct professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Before joining Northumbria University, he was a Stokes Lecturer with the Photonics Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

He was a Senior Research Associate with the Optoelectronics Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2006, where he was involved in research on polymer optical waveguides. He was a Research Associate with the Applied Optics and Photonics Group, Heriot-Watt University, from 2006 to 2008, where he was involved in research on laser joining in micromanufacturing. He is a committee member of Holography and Optical Information Processing committee, The Chinese Optical Society. He is an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Group, 2016 Impact Factor 4.259) and Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal (2016 Impact Factor 2.512).

His current research interest lies in Photonics including the design and fabrication of fibre Bragg grating devices for sensing and optical communications; hetero-core fibre structures for novel fibre optical couplers and sensors; nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibre, microsphere, nanofibres, visible light communication and its application for sensing, and surface plasmon resonant for highly integrated nanophotonics devices and their applications for biosensing. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in academic journals and international conferences and holds three patents. He has been highlighted and interviewed by the journal Electronics Letters with the objective of understanding the background and rationale for his research on singlemode-multimode-singlemode fibre structures.

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Campus Address

Room E409
Ellison Building
Northumberland Road
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

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A Label-Free Microfiber Biosensor for Auxiliary Diagnosis of Pre-Eclampsia, Li, Z., Zeng, D., Li, Y., Huang, Y., Zhou, Y., Quan, H., Xie, Y., Chen, P., Xie, R., Rao, L., Sang, X., Farrell, G., Yuan, J., Sun, G., Wu, Q. 23 Jan 2026, In: ACS Sensors
A U-shaped microfiber ring laser sensor for ultrasensitive detection of Ni2+ ions, Qiu, S., Chang, B., Chai, L., Nie, W., Zu, L., Liu, Y., Han, Y., Wang, W., Fu, X., Yuan, J., Wu, Q. 1 Jan 2026, In: Talanta
High-performance Wearable Respiratory Sensor Based on Graphene-Oxide-Functionalized Fiber Tip, Huang, S., Pu, S., Ji, Y., Zhang, C., Liu, W., Xu, T., Han, S., Shi, L., Wu, Q., Lahoubi, M. 1 Jan 2026, In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Ni²⁺-Imprinted Chitosan Coated STMS Microfiber Sensor for High-Sensitivity Detection of Ni²⁺ Ions, Chang, B., Nie, W., Zuo, Z., Qiu, S., Zu, L., Liu, Y., Han, Y., Wang, W., Fu, X., Yuan, J., Wu, Q. 15 Jan 2026, In: IEEE Sensors Journal
A cascaded tapered seven-core fiber biosensor for rapid detection of the p53 protein in 293T cell lysate, Zhang, Z., Li, Z., Xie, R., Tian, Z., Yao, Y., Yang, B., Zhang, J., Ma, H., Rao, L., Wang, K., Yan, B., Sang, X., Yu, C., Fu, B., Pu, S., Yuan, J., Wu, Q. 1 Dec 2025, In: Talanta
Acoustofluidics Powered Synthesis of Bacterial Cellulose, Zhang, J., Gilmour, K., Zhang, M., Jiang, Y., Arnold, P., Ong, H., Wu, Q., Parsa, M., Tao, R., Luo, J., Fu, Y. 1 Dec 2025, In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
A microbubble cavity sensor using a Fano resonance for fast detection of ultralow concentrations of Cu2+, Li, H., Liu, B., Liu, J., Jiang, J., Ma, H., Li, X., Ghassemlooy, Z., Zhou, X., Sang, X., Yuan, J., Farrell, G., Wu, Q. 1 Dec 2025, In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
An Adaptive Fractionally-spaced Post-equaliser for Photovoltaic-based VLC, Solis, J., Wu, Q., Ghassemlooy, Z., Li, X. 22 Oct 2025, 2025 South American Conference On Visible Light Communications (SACVLC), IEEE
Analysis of Segmentation Techniques for Space Multiplexing in a Rolling Shutter Optical Camera Communication, Zamorano-Illanes, R., Ghassemlooy, Z., Wu, Q., Li, X., Teli, S., Guerra-Yánez, C., Zvánovec, S. 18 Sep 2025, 2025 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Piscataway, US, IEEE
A slot shape microstructured optical fiber for high sensitivity pressure sensing, Xue, P., Fu, Y., Wu, Q., Ng, W., Binns, R., Liu, Q. 15 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology

PGR Supervision

Qingmin Liu Start Date: 01/11/2025
Julián Solís Torrejón Utilizing flexible and moveable solar cells as optical wireless sensors to provide indoor asset tracking within a synchronized PoE backbone network Start Date: 01/05/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
Raul Enrique Zamorano-Illanes Design and development of optical sensors for WSN Start Date: 20/06/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
Julián Solís Torrejón Utilizing flexible and moveable solar cells as optical wireless sensors to provide indoor asset tracking within a synchronized PoE backbone network Start Date: 01/05/2025
Yiming Shen Start Date: 01/09/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
Raul Enrique Zamorano-Illanes Design and development of optical sensors for WSN Start Date: 20/06/2025
Adeel Faruq Skin Patch Based Optical Microfibre Interferometer Biosensor Start Date: 01/10/2023
Yiming Shen Start Date: 01/09/2025
Atiya Fatima Usmani Start Date: 01/11/2025
Haili Ma Molecular imprinting polymers based novel optical fibre biochemical sensor Start Date: 01/10/2023
Adeel Faruq Skin Patch Based Optical Microfibre Interferometer Biosensor Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
Haili Ma Molecular imprinting polymers based novel optical fibre biochemical sensor Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025