Engineering Personnel

Alan Burchell

Alan Burchell studied electronic & electrical engineering at Glasgow University, before spending 18 months working as a field engineer for the British Antarctic Survey at their Halley Research Station. Since then he’s worked for them at their headquarters in Cambridge. He’s started working for the OBIC in Feb 2004. Apart from supporting cruises he is responsible for: the design of the 4-channel seismic instruments; the 4-channel electromagnetic instruments; long-deployment acquisition; software development and the website.

Dr. Indika Samarakoon

Dr. Indika Samarakoon studied Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained his MSc and PhD in Mobile Communications from Lancaster University, UK. He has over 8 years experience in software development related to mobile communications, applications and firmware development and high performance automated trading system development. Also, he has been involved with many research and development projects related to mobile communications and telemedicine.

He joined OBIC in May 2009, and is currently responsible for software and firmware development related to ocean bottom instruments and analysis tools.

Dr. Alejandro Gonzalez-Nakazawa

Dr. Alejandro Gonzalez-Nakazawa completed his BSc in Electronic Engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico in 1999. In 2002, he completed the MSc in Electronic Instrumentation Systems at UMIST in Manchester and was awarded the PhD in Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester in 2007. From August 2007 to March 2009, he worked as an RFID applications engineer at RFIQ Solutions Ltd in Manchester, developing Radio Frequency Identification systems.

He will be working in OBIC improving the current generation of Ocean Bottom instruments and developing the next generation of instruments.