People
Find out more about our staff and students.
Meet the team
Heads of Centre
Dr David Birch
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Head of Centre for Aerodynamics, Aerospace & Automotive Engineering
Dr Davide Tavernini
Senior Lecturer in Advanced Vehicle Engineering; Deputy Head, Centre for Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering
Centre members
Dario Amirante
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Mohammad Hossein Bamorovat Abadi
Research Fellow A in Autonomous Robotics
Dr Matteo Carpentieri
Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Director of EnFlo
John Doherty
Reader in Vehicle Engineering
Professor Robert Dorey
Professor of Nanomaterials
Dr Shahed Ekbatani
Research Fellow
Professor Saber Fallah
Professor of Safe AI and Autonomy
Dr Vladislav Ganine
Research Fellow
Amirhossein Ghobadi
Design and Engineering Centre Workshop Technician
Professor Patrick Gruber
Professor in Advanced Vehicle Systems Engineering
Dr Ahu Ece Hartavi Karci
Reader
Dr Paul Hayden
Research Fellow and EnFlo Laboratory Manager
Dr Yinglong He
Lecturer in Smart and Sustainable Mobility
Dr Mary Hilditch
Senior Lecturer
Professor Nicholas Hills
Head of the School of Engineering, Professor of Computational Engineering
Dr Giovanni Iacobello
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences
Dr Tarek Kabbani
Research Fellow in Automotive Engineering
Dr Yan Kong
Research Fellow
Dr Simao Marques
Senior Lecturer
Dr Olaf Marxen
Senior Lecturer
Dr Umberto Montanaro
Senior Lecturer in Autonomous Systems and Control Engineering
Dr Kannan Munusamy
Research Fellow
Dr Michael Pekris
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences
Dr Marco Placidi
Associate Professor in Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Dr Liaoyuan Ran
Research Fellow in Advanced Vehicle Control
Dr Zixiang Sun
Research Fellow
Dr Guohong Tian
Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering
Dr Bo Wang
Research Fellow
Professor Jennifer Wen
Professor, Chair in Energy Resilience, Head, Centre of Safety Science for New Energy Technology (CSSNET)
Emeritus members
Professor John Chew
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr Philip Hancock
Emeritus Reader in Fluid Mechanics
Professor Alan Robins
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Postgraduate research students
Shaun Burden
Postgraduate Research Student
Alejandro Pozo Dominguez
Postgraduate research student
Joy Schmeer
Postgraduate research student