Below is a list of current Faculty staff with membership to the Centre.

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Luca Magri
Coordinator, Reader in Data-Driven Fluid Mechanics 

Email: l.magri@imperial.ac.uk

  • Data assimilation and uncertainty quantification
  • Physics-aware machine learning
  • Optimization
  • Chaos
  • Reacting flows
  • Sound
  • Linear methods from quantum mechanics
                      

Davide Amato
Lecturer in Spacecraft Engineering

Email: d.amato@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Machine learning for dynamical systems
  • Ordinary differential equations (forward problems)
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Inverse problems
 

Chris Cantwell
Senior Lecturer in Aeronautics 

Email: c.cantwell@imperial.ac.uk

  • Deep learning
  • Graph neural networks
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Cardiac electrophysiology

Urban Fasel
Lecturer in Data-Driven Aerospace Engineering

Email: u.fasel@imperial.ac.uk 

 
  • Machine learning
  • Data science for modelling and control of complex systems
  • Flexible composite structures
  • Intelligent flight
  • Renewable energy systems
 

Rob Hewson
Reader in Aircraft design

Email: r.hewson@imperial.ac.uk

  • Multiscale Lattice Optimisation,
  • Multi-disciplinary Design Optimisation,
  • Tribology and Thin Film Fluid Dynamics,
  • Multiscale mechanics.

Ayesha Khan
Communications and Media Manager 

Email: a.khan21@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Promoting research, initiatives and events
  • Updating the Centre's website
  • Media enquiries
  • Digital and print design
  • Photography and videography 
 

Zahra Sharif Khodaei
Professor in Structural Integrity 

Email: z.sharif-khodaei@imperial.ac.uk 

  • Structural health monitoring
  • Structural integrity and failure analysis
  • Computational mechanics
  • Structural reliability and Optimization
 

Mirko Kovac
Professor in Aerial Robotics    

Email: m.kovac@imperial.ac.uk

  • Remote monitoring
  • Aerial inspection
  • Aerial sensing
  • Structually-aware aerial additive manufacturing
  • Inspection and repair with aerial robotics (Spray)
  • Sensor installation with sensed surface
  • Design of soft aerial robotics through physical AI
  • Environmental sensing and surface interaction with micro aerial vehicles
  • Remote and environmental monitoring

Sylvain Laizet
Professor in Computational Fluid Mechanics

Email: s.laizet@imperial.ac.uk

  • Flow reconstruction from sparse sensors using neural networks
  • PDE solvers based on neural networks

Francesco Montomoli
Professor in Computational Aerodynamics  
Chief Scientific Officer of TOffeeAM

Email: f.montomoli@imperial.ac.uk

  • Heat Transfer, Gas Turbines
  • Uncertainty Quantification,
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Rare Events, Aircraft Engines
  • Optimization. 

Thulasi Mylvaganam
Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering   

Email: t.mylvaganam@imperial.ac.uk

 

 

  • Control of snake robots
  • Control of robotic systems
  • Control of human-robot systems
 

Rafael Palacios
Professor of Computational Aeroelasticity, Director of Research

Email: r.palacios@imperial.ac.uk

  • Dynamical systems from CFD data for aeroelasticity predictions and control
  • Internal models for nonlinear model predictive control in very flexible wings
 
 

Ajit Panesar
Senior Lecturer

Email: a.panesar@imperial.ac.uk

 

  • Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM),
  • Metamaterials (or Lattice Structures),
  • Machine Learning (ML) in DfAM,
  • Topology Optimisation (TO) for AM,
  • Multifunctional Composites.
 

George Papadakis
Professor in Aerodynamics   

Email: g.papadakis@imperial.ac.uk

  • Data-driven estimation of turbulent and chaotic flows
  • Blood flow reconstruction from clinical measurements
 

George Rigas
Senior Lecturer in Aerodynamics 

Email: g.rigas@imperial.ac.uk

  • Flow control
  • Turbulence modelling
 

Vito Tagarielli
Reader in Mechanics of Solids 

Email: v.tagarielli@imperial.ac.uk

  • Impact, blast,
  • fluid-structure interaction,
  • Loading induced in deflagration events,
  • Electro-mechanics of conductive CNT-polymer composites,
  • Viscoelasticity and strength of fibre-reinforced composites,
  • Experimental techniques in solid mechanics,
  • Micromechanics and constitutive modeling of engineering materials,
  • Applications of machine learning,
  • information theory and data analytics to the mechanics of solids.

Peter Vincent
Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Email: p.vincent@imperial.ac.uk

  • Numerical methods,
  • High-order numerical methods for unstructured grids,
  • Hardware platforms.

Andrew Wynn
Reader in Control Optimization   

Email: a.wynn@imperial.ac.uk

  • Data-driven fluid flow modelling
  • Flow control
  • Aeroelastic control
  • Control of flexible structures
  • Data-driven, real time state estimation
  • Control of nonlinear systems