Elfed Lewis graduated with BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Liverpool University in 1978 and was awarded his PhD from the same institution in 1987. In 1996 he joined University of Limerick at which time he formed the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre. He is Associate Professor and Director of the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre, which he founded in 1996. He is Fellow of Institute of Physics, IET, BCS and Senior member IEEE. He has authored and co authored more than 70 journal papers and made in excess of 200 contributions to international conferences. He currently holds 5 patents on Optical Fibre Sensor Devices. The Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre under the leadership of Professor Lewis is engaged in investigating sensors for environmental monitoring (e.g. water quality, vehicle exhaust emissions,), food quality assessment and parameters of high power microwave sources (e.g. Electric Field, Electron Beam proximity) and medical devices. In 2005 he was recipient of the University of Limerick Special Achievement in Research Award and was a Fulbright Scholar with CREOL (University of Central Florida) in 2008. He is currently Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council for the period July 2013-June 2015.