
Academic staff
Find out more about our academic staff.
Academic staff

Professor Robert Dorey
Head of School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Dr Daniel Abasolo
Head of Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering

Dr Mark Baker
Reader in Surface Science and Engineering

Dr David Birch
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Head of Centre for Aerodynamics & Environmental Flow

Dr Matteo Carpentieri
Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Dr Tanmoy Chatterjee
Lecturer in Resilient Design

Professor John Chew
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Francesco Ciampa
Associate Professor (Reader) in Structural Integrity and Composites, MES Director of Postgraduate Researchers

Dr Srdjan Cirovic
Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering

Professor Andrew Crocombe
Professor of Structural Mechanics

John Doherty
Reader in Vehicle Engineering

Dr Saber Fallah
Professor of Safe AI and Autonomy

Charlotte Foreman
Senior Teaching Fellow, Director of Learning and Teaching for Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Professor Patrick Gruber
Professor in Advanced Vehicle Systems Engineering, MES Director of Research

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

Dr Yinglong He
Lecturer in Resilient Transport Systems/Electric Vehicles/Autonomous 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

Cat Jones
Lecturer

Dr Fatima Labeed
Senior Lecturer in Human Biology

Professor Constantina Lekakou
Professor in Energy, Multiphase and Multifunctional Materials and Devices

Dr Eric Lo
Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering

Dr Simao Marques
Senior Lecturer

Dr Olaf Marxen
Senior Lecturer

Dr Iman Mohagheghian
Senior Lecturer

Dr Umberto Montanaro
Lecturer in Systems and Control for Automotive Engineering

Dr Matthew Oldfield
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Dr Michael Pekris
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Dr Marco Placidi
Senior Lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Professor Alan Robins
Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Professor Mahmoud Shafiee
Professor, Chair in Energy Engineering; Director of Energy Research Centre; EDI Lead

Dr Robert Siddall
Lecturer in Robotics

Professor Paul Smith
Professor of Composite Materials

Professor Aldo Sorniotti
Professor in Advanced Vehicle Engineering, Head of the Centre for Automotive Engineering
Dr Tan Sui
Associate Professor (Reader) in Materials Engineering

Dr Davide Tavernini
Senior Lecturer in Advanced Vehicle Engineering

Dr Guohong Tian
Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering

Dr Andrew Viquerat
Senior Lecturer in Structural Mechanics

Professor John Watts
Professor of Materials Science

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

Dr Mark Whiting
Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Director of the Centre for Engineering Materials

Dr Wei Xu
Senior Lecturer

Professor Julie Yeomans
Professor Emerita of Ceramic Materials