About the inventors
Professor David Thiel
Is a co-inventor of the Circuits in Plastic Technology. He has an MSc and PhD in electromagnetics and is Director of the Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications at Griffith University (Brisbane, QLD Australia). He served as Head of the School of Microelectronic Engineering at Griffith University for more than 8 years.
His research interests cover the fields of electromagnetic modelling, radio systems and smart antennas, electromagnetic geophysics, sensor systems and human monitoring. Research achievements include the world’s first odour sensing robot, TSIM (a commercial surface impedance meter for shallow earth mapping), switched parasitic antennas (a low cost plug and play smart antenna technology).
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, and serves as Chair of the IEEE Wave Propagation Standards Committee. He is a major contributor to Griffith University’s member status in the International e-waste consortium StEP, based at the United Nations University (Bonn, Germany).
Professor Thiel has delivered plenary talks at a number of International conferences, has published more than 80 papers in refereed international journals, more than 130 international conference papers and holds more than 9 patents.
Mr. MadhusudanRao Neeli
Is a co-inventor of the Circuits in Plastic Technology. He holds a M.Eng in mechanical engineering and currently serves as the senior engineer in the Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications. He has expertise in machine design, plastic processing and large scale manufacturing.
He has worked in Singapore for four years at Beyonics (formerly Uraco) had exposure to large multi national companies such as HP, Seagate, Motorola, Western Digital etc. He is well versed in various aspects of manufacturing from design, manufacturing, quality control, ISO standards, troubleshooting and after customer care services.
Prior to joining Griffith, he has worked in Australia for a mobile phone manufacturing company, has helped to setup their manufacturing operations in Singapore/Malaysia. He has also helped Senviro another company whose PCB manufacturing and assembly currently being done in Singapore/Malaysia.
Currently he is assisting a major Australian mining company, Orica to have their multi million dollars manufacturing operations in Singapore. He has been a key player and continues to bringing large manufacturing businesses to Singapore.
He has been instrumental in developing the "Circuits in Plastic" technology by combining high end research and large scale manufacturing which helped to enhance the research outcomes and implementation in the commercial environment.
Traditional electronic products have inevitable problems during manufacturing, product use, end of life and re-cycling. His work has helped to complete the cycle of manufacturing, recycling and recovery of raw materials.