Academic staff
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Academic staff
Professor Chris Davies
Research Interests:
Additive Manufacturing: SLM; heat transfer; qualification, Design of magnesium alloys, Texture evolution
Dr. Elahe Abdi
Research Interests:
Medical and Surgical Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Design of Human-Machine Interface; Haptics, Control, Behavioural Studies, Application of Robotics in Neuroscience and Soft Tissue Modelling
A/Professor Ralph Abrahams
Research Interests:
Fracture Mechanics, FEM, Nano, Coatings, Fatigue, Aluminium, Magnesium Alloys, Friction-Stir Process
Dr. Tuncay Alan
Research Interests:
Microlectromechanical Systems, Nanofabrication, Microfluidics and Biomedical Devices.
Dr. Callum Atkinson
Research Interests:
Dr. Callum research Interests are in,Turbulent flows, heat transfer and Aerodynamics.
Professor Hugh Blackburn
Research Interests:
Flow Physics using High-Performance Computational Methods and Supercomputers, Wind Turbine Wake Instabilities, Transient Growth of Disturbances to Arterial Flows, Resonant Collapse of Rotating Flows, Vortex-Wave Interaction.
Mr. David Burton
Research Interests:
Aerodynamics, Wind Tunnel, Bluff Body, Wind Engineering and Turbulence.
Dr. Victor J Cadarso
Research Interests:
Novel and Scalable Technologies for the Fabrication of Functional Surfaces and 3D Complex Structures for Applications in Optical MEMS, Biomedical Sevices, Environmental Monitoring and Sensing Platforms.
Dr. Josie Carberry
Research Interests:
Fluid forces in blood flow affect cardiovascular function. One aspect is to generate controlled in-vitro flow environments that accurately mimic the complex blood flow conditions found the human body facilitating highly detailed measurements.
Professor Sunita Chauhan
Research Interests:
Medical robots for minimally-invasive and on-invasive surgery, Ultrasound-diagnostics, Therapy and surgery, Service robotics especially for Railways and Aerospace inspection and maintenance, Cleaning, Sports Engineering.
Dr. Bernard Chen
Research Interests:
Bio-mechanical/medical engineering, Solid mechanics, Finite element modelling, Thermomechanical analysis, Design, Simulation, Optimisation, Fracture/failure analysis, Aerospace materials, Composites, Light alloys.
Dr. Chao Chen
Research Interests:
Medical Robots for Surgery and Rehabilitation, Mobile Robots with Advanced Mobility and Reconfigurable Mechatronic Systems.
Professor Wing Chiu
Research Interests:
Multi-disciplinary, Advanced composite structures, Structural health monitoring; Fatigue and failure analysis, Vibration analysis; Engineering acoustics.
Dr. Hoam Chung
Research Interests:
Control systems, Unmanned vehicles, Smart sensing, Mechatronic system design, Multi-agent systems, and Robotics.
Dr. Daniel Edgington-Mitchell
Research Interests:
Optical techniques to study compressible and multiphase fluid mechanics, including supersonic jet noise, rocket nozzles, scramjet fuel injection, and pharmaceutical sprays.
Dr. Jing Fu
Research Interests:
Micro/nano machining and manipulation, Multidimensional electron and ion imaging, Novel microscopy/micro-analysis methods for cell and cancer biology, Computational geometry, Simulation and optimization in design to manufacturing.
Dr. Shaun Gregory
Dr. Matthieu Gresil
Senior Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests:
Matthieu's research is focused on (i) multifunctionality that could be built into a composite structure, such as health monitoring, self-healing, reprocessing, recycling, thermal-load dissipation, and electrical enhancement; (ii) emerging polymer materials such as vitrimers which can heal, morph, and reprocess with a thermal trigger.
Professor Damon Honnery
Research Interests:
Combustion, Fluid Mechanics, Pollutant Formation, Alternative Renewable Fuels, Propulsion and Transport.
Professor Kerry Hourigan
Research Interests:
Fluid-structure interaction including bluff body flow-induced vibration and its control, Wake transition to turbulence, Vortex dynamics, and Flight aerodynamics.
Professor Dana Kulic
Research Interests:
human-robot interaction, robot learning, human motion analysis
Professor Mainak Majumder
Research Interests:
Graphene-based Materials, Electrochemical Energy Storage, Nanofluidics, Carbon nanotubes
Professor Adrian Neild
Research Interests:
Microfluidics and microsensors for applications in biomedical devices and instrumentation. Specializing in lab-on-a-chip systems, often using ultrasonic actuation, to control sample handling and delivery, cell sorting, fluid mixing and reactions.
A/Professor Tuck Ng
Research Interests:
Biochemical analysis techniques, Particle-cell manipulation, Instrumentation development.
Dr. Reza Nosrati
Research Interests:
Microfluidics, Infertility, Diagnostics, Organ-on-a-chip, Sperm Function, Cell Motility, Bioengineering, Biosensors, Biomedical Devices, Biological Fluid Dynamics.
Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan
Research Interests:
Complex fluids, Viscoelasticity, Rheology, Constitutive modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Microfluidics, Polymer Solutions, Active Matter
Professor Murray Rudman
Research Interests:
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Free surface flow, Non-Newtonian fluids, Turbulence, Chaos, Mixing, Wave structure interaction.
A/Professor Gregory Sheard
Research Interests:
Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics
Professor Bijan Shirinzadeh
Research Interests:
Robotics/Parallel Mechanisms, Micro/Nano Manipulation Mechanisms; Intelligent Sensing and Control: Laser-based Sensing, Measurement and Control; Robotic Assisted Surgery / Haptics; Cell Surgery/Manipulation; Complex/Autonomous Systems; Automation and Manufacturing Sciences: Automated Fibre Placement, Fixturing and Machining.
Professor Raman Singh
Research Interests:
Corrosion, Corrosion Mitigation, Stress Corrosion-Cracking, Nano crystalline Alloys and Graphene Coatings.
Professor Julio Soria
Research Interests:
Attached and separated turbulent boundary layer flow, subsonic and supersonic jet flow, swirling flow, physics and the development of non-intrusive optical experimental measurement methods.
Dr. Yunlong Tang
Lecturer, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Yunlong’s research focus is manufacturing information technologies for the integration of design, manufacturing processes; particularly the design methods for additive manufacturing as well as advanced smart manufacturing technologies
Professor Mark Thompson
Research Interests:
Flow-induced vibration, Biological fluid dynamics, Aeroacoustics, Industrial fluid dynamics, Computational fluid dynamics, Aerodynamics, Flow instabilities, Wake flows and Bluff body flows.
Dr. Tony Vo
Dr. Scott Wordley
Research Interests:
Active Aerodynamic, Aerodynamics, Aerodynamics Technology, Automotive Aerodynamics, Truck Aerodynamics, Computer Aided Design, E-learning, Education research, Engineering design, Engineering education, Formula SAE and Race Car Aerodynamics.
A/Professor Wenyi Yan
Research Interests:
Applied mechanics of solids and structures, composite structures, fracture and fatigue of materials, design optimization for additive manufacturing, wear, rail/wheel contact mechanics