Our staff
Professor Patrick Degenaar
Professor of Neuroprosthetics
- Personal Website: https://www.neuroprosthesislab.org/
- Address: E4.09
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Engineering
Merz Court
Newcastle University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, UK
Dr Toby Hallam
Senior Lecturer in Physics
- Email: toby.hallam@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 208 5136
- Address: School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics
Room 2-4 Herschel Annexe
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Dr Johannes Gausden
Research Associate in Engineering
- Email: johannes.gausden@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 208 4493
- School of Engineering
Merz Court
Newcastle University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, UK
Dr Johannes Gausden is the Scientific Officer at the GNN, where he leads technical process oversight and serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external collaborations. He is a core member of the team responsible for establishing and launching the GNN.
Dr Gausden’s research and academic background centre on semiconductors and microfabrication. He applies this expertise to bio- and medical-electronics projects through a range of interdisciplinary collaborations.
He received a BSc in Physics from Imperial College London in 2011, followed by an MSc in Nanoscale Science and Technology from the University of Sheffield in 2015. He then joined Newcastle University, where he completed his PhD, Industrially Safe Graphene Synthesis and its Use in Sensing Devices, in 2020. Since then, he has worked as a Research Associate on several projects within Newcastle University’s Microsystems Group. Between 2024 and 2026, he also held a part-time lectureship in semiconductors and microfabrication.