Dr Ruomeng Huang

Ruomeng is the Programmer Leader for MSc Electronic Engineering. He is also the coordinator for the ECS Industrial Studies programmes.

He teaches a range of undegraduate and postgraduate modules including:

ELEC1321: Fields, Forces and Materials

ELEC3200: Industrial Studies

ELEC3207/6256: Nanoelectronic Devices

ELEC6200: Group Design Project

Ruomeng Huang received his undergraduate training in Physics in China before moving to the University of Southampton, where he completed an MSc in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology in 2010 and a PhD in 2015. His doctoral research examined confined nanoscale chalcogenide phase-change materials and memory devices. Following his PhD, he was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Research Fellowship, which supported the establishment of his independent research activities in functional chalcogenides and metal oxides for advanced electronic and energy-related applications.

He joined the University of Southampton in 2018 as a Lecturer in the Sustainable Electronic Technologies group within the School of Electronics and Computer Science and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Since then, he has developed a sustained and competitive funding portfolio as both Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator across UK and European programmes.

Ruomeng has an established and sustained track record in securing competitive research funding. He currently holds senior leadership roles in major collaborative initiatives, serving as Deputy Director and Co-Investigator of the £10 million EPSRC Programme Grant EXPRESS, and as UK Lead and Co-Investigator of the €4.5 million Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network MGICIAN. He is Principal Investigator of the EPSRC project EP/Y001567/1, which develops novel low-temperature synthesis routes for low-dimensional metal chalcogenides and their application in flexible memristive devices for neuromorphic computing. He has also received an EPSRC Core Equipment Award (2022–23), a Royal Society Research Grant on mesoporous-silica-based diffusive memristors (RGS\R2\222171), and multiple EPSRC and STFC Impact Acceleration awards supporting the development of thermoelectric materials and devices. In addition, he is a Co-Investigator on the £6.4 million EPSRC Programme Grant ADEPT – Advanced Devices by ElectroPlaTing (EP/N035437/1) and an STFC-funded project on thin-film thermoelectric micro-generators (ST/P00007X/1).

Dr Huang has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and delivered more than 40 presentations at national and international conferences, including numerous invited talks. He contributes actively to the research community as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and Engineering Research Express, and sits on the committee of the IOP Semiconductor Physics Group.