Professor James Walsh

About

Professor James Walsh is Robert Rankin Chair of Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. He joined the University in 2026 from the York Plasma Institute, where he held the Chair in Low Temperature Plasmas. Professor Walsh received his PhD in Nanosecond Pulsed Non-Equilibrium Gas Discharges in 2008. Following two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, he joined the University of Liverpool as a Lecturer in 2010, before being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015, Reader in 2017 and Chair in 2019. In 2022, he joined the York Plasma Institute as Chair in Low Temperature Plasmas, before returning to Liverpool in 2026 as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. He was awarded an EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Award, wh