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Rafael Palacios                                             
Director      

Email: r.palacios@imperial.ac.uk

Professor Rafael Palacios is the Director, Brahmal Institute for Sustainable Aviation, Deputy Head, Department of Aeronautics and a Professor of Computational Aeroelasticity. His research interests include load control and aeroelastics, wing optimisation and aircraft dynamics. 

Rafael’s responsibilities at the Brahmal Institute include the operational management, vision and strategy, and stakeholder engagement.        

Laura Mainini
Associate Director     

Email: l.mainini@imperial.ac.uk

Professor Laura Mainini is the Chair in Aerospace Computational Design. Her research interests include multidisciplinary design optimisation, scientific machine learning, data-to-decision for design, manufacturing, condition monitoring and operations of aerospace systems/vehicles, computational methods for digital engineering, complex systems design and integration 

Laura’s responsibilities at the Brahmal Institute include sealing Industry engagement and collaborations, deputising for the Director and supporting the Institute’s vision and strategy. 

Rhea Liem
Reader in Sustainable Aviation Technologies    

Email: r.liem@imperial.ac.uk 

Dr Rhea Liem is a Reader in Sustainable Aviation Technologies. She focuses her research efforts to bridge the gap between the fundamental development of computational science and its real-world implementations, particularly to support sustainable aviation goals.

Her research interests include multidisciplinary design optimisation – to support systematic decision-making processes, hybrid modelling – to combine the objectivity of data and the interpretability of physics-based models, surrogate and machine-learning modelling – to make complex system analysis and design more computationally tractable, and complex system modelling in general.

To date, her work has found applications in aircraft design and air transportation – while taking their interdependence into account – with the main goal to improve overall fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.

Sebastian Eastham
Senior Lecturer

Email: s.eastham@imperial.ac.uk

 

Dr. Sebastian Eastham is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Aviation. His research interests include aircraft and launch vehicle emissions estimation, computational modeling of the resulting atmospheric and environmental impacts, identifying new technical solutions to these challenges, and novel approaches to observing and simulating aircraft condensation trails (contrails) and their climate effects.

 

Ruby Wlaschin
Institute Coordinator  

Email: brahmal-institute@imperial.ac.uk
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