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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