Habiba Lais

I am a Technologist at Tribosonics, a transformational technology business taking its unique sensing technologies into uncharted and valuable territories, to deliver scale and impact.

Previously from a non-STEM background, I enrolled at Brunel University London in 2011 to pursue Engineering with an Integrated Foundation year and progressed onto Aerospace Engineering. I completed an industrial placement year 2014/15 at Brunel Innovation Centre (BIC) as a Project Technical Assistant. During this time, I worked on InnovateUK funded fouling removal projects using high power ultrasonic transducers.

In 2016, I received a First Class Honours in Aerospace Engineering B.Eng. with Professional Development. Upon graduation, I continued my journey in ultrasonics by undertaking an industrial-led PhD at the National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) and Brunel Innovation Centre, developing a non-invasive ultrasonic technique for removing fouling on subsea O&G pipelines. I continued as a Research Fellow at Brunel Innovation Centre to extend high power ultrasonic applications into the nuclear and renewable energy sectors, before joining Tribosonics in early 2021 to develop ultrasonic sensing applications within the nuclear, transport and renewable energy sectors.

I have authored in several peer-reviewed journals and conferences: Most notably in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, a leading international journal in the field of acoustics and ultrasonics. I am passionate about contributing to the world’s sustainability goals through sensor innovation whilst raising the awareness of how ultrasound can be designed to achieve this; particularly through embedded/smart components to drive production optimisation.