About

The Centre for Neuromorphic Technologies (CeNT) aims to revolutionise computing by developing energy-efficient and brain-inspired hardware and algorithms that replicate how neurons and synapses process information, ultimately tackling the energy and scalability limits of today’s digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence systems. 

We aim to develop novel hardware and unconventional AI algorithms to co-design next-generation neuromorphic systems by bringing together electrical and electronic engineers with computer science and a combined expertise in:

  • computational modelling
  • neurosymbolic AI
  • photonics
  • nanoelectronics
  • materials science
  • device physics
  • biomedical engineering

Our research focus includes but is not limited to:

  • creating low-power AI algorithms and bio-inspired devices for ultrafast parallel processing
  • developing sustainable materials and device and systems architectures that support efficient, scalable information processing

Our multi-sector collaborations ensure the Centre’s innovations translate into real-world impacts for fields like AI acceleration, telecommunications, healthcare, defence, and sustainable computing.

CeNT management board

Director

Prof Dimitra Georgiadou

Deputy Director

Dr Soumya Sarkar

Research Funding Leads

Prof Kees De Groot

Prof Koushik Maharatna

Educational Lead

Dr Ruomeng Huang

Facilities Lead

Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis

Enterprise Lead

Dr Ibrahim Sari

Publicity Lead

Dr Firman Simanjuntak

Events Lead

Dr Philip Calado

Outreach Lead

Dr Mark Vousden

Members

Prof Andrew Brown

Prof Harold Chong

Dr Shoaib Ehsan

Prof Nicholas Harris

Prof Geoff Merret

Dr Rafael Mestre

Dr Rosalia Moreddu

Prof David Thomas

Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya

Prof Jize Yan

Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah

People, projects, publications and PhDs

People

Fabrication and prototyping facilities

A researcher in a cleanroom suit and wearing a protective glasses, uses the electron beam lithography (EBL) facility

Electron beam lithography facility

Our electron beam lithography facility hosts the first 200 kilovolt system outside of Japan.
A researcher in a cleanroom suit with a 200mm wafer in the nanofabrication cleanroom

Nanofabrication cleanrooms

The nanofabrication cleanrooms houses a fully featured suite of semiconductor processing tools as well as a planar fabrication laboratory.
A man near the equipment

Hybrid materials and devices facility

We specialise in processing and characterisation of thin film materials from solution, such as those employed in flexible or wearable optoelectronic devices and battery research. 

Materials and electrical testing facilities

The Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Facility. The image shows three computer screens showing data, with laboratory equipment in the background

Focused ion beam facility

This facility supports research in nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, silicon photonics and quantum devices research.
Researchers in the powder x-ray diffraction facility

Powder and materials X-ray diffraction facility

The powder and materials diffraction facilities offer a range of capabilities from simple phase identification through to complex materials analysis.
x-ray diffraction imaging equipment

X-ray diffraction imaging facility

The X-ray diffraction imaging facility is suited for work including crystal structure determination, high resolution surface texture mapping, and texture pole plotting.
IRIDIS 6 research computing facility - a bank of servers in silver casing with yellow and blue network cables in the background

Iridis research computing facility

Learn more about the Iridis, University’s High Performance Computing System

Contact us

For further information about CeNT, please contact us via email.
cent@soton.ac.uk