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Centre for Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering members
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

Dr Matteo Carpentieri
Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics

John Doherty
Reader in Vehicle Engineering

Professor Robert Dorey
Professor of Nanomaterials

Dr Saber Fallah
Professor of Safe AI and Autonomy

Professor Patrick Gruber
Professor in Advanced Vehicle Systems Engineering

Dr Ahu Ece Hartavi Karci
Reader, Head of the Centre for Automotive Engineering

Dr Paul Hayden
Research Fellow

Dr Yinglong He
Lecturer in Automated Electrified Transport (AcT) Systems

Dr Mary Hilditch
Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Professor Nicholas Hills
Professor of Computational Engineering, Faculty Associate Dean of the Doctoral College

Dr Giovanni Iacobello
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Dr Simao Marques
Senior Lecturer

Dr Olaf Marxen
Senior Lecturer

Dr Umberto Montanaro
Senior Lecturer in Autonomous Systems and Control Engineering

Dr Michael Pekris
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Dr Marco Placidi
Senior Lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Dr Guohong Tian
Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering

Professor Jennifer Wen
Professor, Chair in Energy Resilience, Head of Fire and Explosion Modelling Group (FMEG), Programme Lead for Energy and Environment at Institute for Sustainability
Emeritus members

Professor John Chew
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Philip Hancock
Emeritus Reader in Fluid Mechanics

Professor Alan Robins
Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics