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Professor Robert Dorey
Head of School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences
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Dr Daniel Abasolo
Head of Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
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Dr Sajeeva Abeywardena
Lecturer in Robotics
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Dr Mark Baker
Reader in Surface Science and Engineering
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Dr David Birch
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Head of Centre for Aerodynamics & Environmental Flow
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Dr Matteo Carpentieri
Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
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Dr Tanmoy Chatterjee
Lecturer in Resilient Design
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Professor John Chew
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Dr Francesco Ciampa
Associate Professor (Reader) in Structural Integrity and Composites, MES Director of Postgraduate Researchers
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Dr Srdjan Cirovic
Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
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Professor Andrew Crocombe
Professor of Structural Mechanics
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John Doherty
Reader in Vehicle Engineering
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Dr Saber Fallah
Professor of Safe AI and Autonomy
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Charlotte Foreman
Senior Teaching Fellow, Director of Learning and Teaching for Mechanical Engineering Sciences
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Rosanna Gilson
Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering & Senior Personal Tutor
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Professor Patrick Gruber
Professor in Advanced Vehicle Systems Engineering, MES Director of Research
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Dr Ahu Ece Hartavi Karci
Reader, Head of the Centre for Automotive Engineering
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Dr Yinglong He
Lecturer in Automated Resilient Transport (ART) Systems
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Dr Mary Hilditch
Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Sciences
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Professor Nicholas Hills
Professor of Computational Engineering, Faculty Associate Dean of the Doctoral College
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Dr Giovanni Iacobello
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences
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Cat Jones
Lecturer
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Dr Fatima Labeed
Senior Lecturer in Human Biology
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Professor Constantina Lekakou
Professor in Energy, Multiphase and Multifunctional Materials and Devices
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Dr Eric Lo
Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
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Dr Simao Marques
Senior Lecturer
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Dr Olaf Marxen
Senior Lecturer
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Dr Iman Mohagheghian
Senior Lecturer
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Dr Umberto Montanaro
Lecturer in Systems and Control for Automotive Engineering
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Dr Matthew Oldfield
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
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Dr Michael Pekris
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Sciences
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Dr Marco Placidi
Senior Lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics
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Professor Alan Robins
Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
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Professor Mahmoud Shafiee
Professor, Chair in Resilient Energy; Director of Energy Resilience Centre; REF Lead
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Dr Robert Siddall
Lecturer in Robotics
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Professor Paul Smith
Professor of Composite Materials
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Professor Aldo Sorniotti
Professor in Advanced Vehicle Engineering, Head of the Centre for Automotive Engineering
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Dr Tan Sui
Associate Professor (Reader) in Materials Engineering
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Dr Davide Tavernini
Senior Lecturer in Advanced Vehicle Engineering
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Dr Guohong Tian
Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering
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Dr Andrew Viquerat
Senior Lecturer in Structural Mechanics
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Professor John Watts
Professor of Materials Science
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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
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Dr Mark Whiting
Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Director of the Centre for Engineering Materials
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Dr Wei Xu
Senior Lecturer
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Professor Julie Yeomans
Professor Emerita of Ceramic Materials