Research Staff
Research staff in the Dyson School of Design Engineering are listed below. Follow the link on each name for more information about the person. Follow this link for a more concise list of our research staff.
Research Fellows
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Dr Anthony Quinn
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Anthony Quinn specialises in statistical signal processing and machine learning methods for optimal design amid uncertainty. He is particularly interested in the design of efficient recursive algorithms to enable distributed and sequential learning. His application foci at the Dyson are the AI-Fairness agenda, and problems of resource allocation at scale, using the optimal transport paradigm. He is tenured in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, where he has taught for many years in probability, statistics, signal processing and telecommunications.
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Dr Johan Pauwels
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Location
Dyson Building,
South Kensington CampusResearch
Johan is a Research Fellow on the SONICOM project, where he is looking at modelling individual user’s characteristics and behaviour with machine learning to enhance immersive audio. In the past, Johan contributed to multiple national and international research projects on music information retrieval in Belgium, France and the UK. He also taught subjects ranging from audio programming to big data processing at various London universities.
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Dorian Peters
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Location
Dyson Building,
South Kensington CampusResearch
Dorian’s research is on wellbeing-supportive design, including the support of psychological needs through design. Her focus is on integrating wellbeing psychology into design practice to improve digital experience. She also works on technology ethics.
Research Assistants and Associates
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Dr Claire Baker
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Location
Room Observatory 114, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Dr Claire Baker is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize research fellow in Design Engineering's HEAD Lab Lab (injury biomechanics research group). She is working on the TBI-REPORTER national initiative (the UK TBI-repository and data portal, enabling discovery). Her research uses real-time data from existing sensors to predict which life-threatening or time-critical injuries might have occurred in a crash, in real time, with the aim of improving road traffic collision emergency care response.
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Dr Davide Cacciarelli
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Location
Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Davide's research sits at the crossroads of industrial statistics and machine learning, aiming to refine the accuracy and reliability of monitoring and predictive models within industrial settings. He holds a dual Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and hisareas of interest include active learning, design of experiments, and statistical process control. Currently, he is working on causal inference for the electricity markets. -
Dr Andrey Churkin
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Location
Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Andrey is a researcher with an electrical engineering background and advanced skills in power systems modelling, mathematical optimisation, electricity markets, energy policies, game theory, and data valuation. He has contributed to large international research projects (e.g., EU Horizon 2020 project ATTEST) and other industrial and consulting works. Andrey's current research focuses on developing novel analytical and data-driven solutions for electricity markets. He also works on flexibility markets for active distribution networks, data valuation techniques, as well as optimisation and planning models for power systems.
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Fleur Conway
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Fleur is a Research Assistant, with an MEng in Mechanical and Bioengineering (2020). Since graduating she has gained industry experience, both in medical devices and robotics. She has joined Imperial to optimise a medical device aimed to help women suffering from epidural hyperthermia.
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Fernanda Espinoza
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Location
Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Fernanda is working within the Wellbeing Technologies Lab investigating the design of a technological intervention that supports people living with dementia and their caregivers in Peru.
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Iris Gray
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Iris is a Research Assistant in the Dyson School of Design Engineering working on a project to define long-term ecological Impacts of different tidal power systems. She has just completed her BEng in Civil Engineering in which her final year project was on the optimisation of Tidal Range schemes retrofitted in dock infrastructure and is now looking at the system from a different point of view.
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Osama Hassan
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
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Sadhana Jagannath
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Sadhana is a Research Associate in Human-Centred Design working on co-design and implementation of behaviour change interventions in Operating Theatres to reduce their environmental impact. She draws her expertise from her cross-disciplinary background in Environmental Psychology and Architecture, to examine environments as a setting for pro-environmental behaviours and behaviour change.
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Dr Milan Kooplikkattil Sadan
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Personal details
Dr Milan Kooplikkattil Sadan UKRI Guarantee Fund Postdoctoral FellowshipSend email+44 7435 928 233
Location
DB-302B, 3rd Floor, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Milan is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. He has been dedicated to battery research since 2014, with a special focus on self-healing next-generation batteries. Milan's research expertise includes interphase engineering, post-lithium ion batteries (such as sodium-ion, room temperature sodium-sulfur, potassium-ion, potassium sulfur and lithium-sulfur batteries), flexible batteries, dry electrode fabrication, electrospinning, etc.
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Elyse M Marshall
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Location
Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Elyse is working with the morph lab to explore the use of soft robotics and haptics for medical and commercial devices.
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Dr Julie Meyer
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Location
Room RCS214, Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Julie's current research focuses on the auditory adaptation to non-individual head-related transfer functions in binaural hearing. More specifically, she is interested in the generalization of auditory adaptation to untrained conditions.
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Pouria Mohamadzadehoqaz
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Pouria is a Design Engineering PhD student with a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and a master’s degree in Aerostructures. His passion has transitioned from engineering design to design theories, particularly Axiomatic Design. Currently, his research within iCircular3 (Digital Transition of Circular Economy) focuses on Circular Cyber-Physical Product as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure.
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Dr Ahmed Mohammed Patel
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Ahmed’s work addresses product, service, system development, and creating meaningful user experiences. His current research centres on designing and developing effective interventions in healthcare to improve patient outcomes and reduce medical errors.
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Dr Katarina Poole
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Location
RCS1 214, Dyson Building
South Kensington CampusResearch
Katarina is interested in how our brain and auditory system is able to analyse our acoustic environment. She is currently working on two main projects. In one she is investigating how to create immersive audio from 3D scans of someone’s ears and head, and what aspects of the 3D scan are needed to create well perceived spatial audio. In another project Katarina is researching whether we can observe neural correlates in EEG recordings to changes in a spatial auditory scene and how these might change based on the location in space of the new auditory source.
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Marco Da Re
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Location
Room 760, Chemistry Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Marco is currently conducting research on the design and development of an mHealth diagnostic system for dementia and co-morbidities in rural Peru. The system is designed to be deliverable by non-specialists and includes clinical enquiry, brief cognitive testing, functional assessment, and evaluation of co-morbidities. It is adaptable and acceptable across multiple cultural and cognitive contexts, meeting the pressing need for a diagnostic system for dementia. He has a strong interest in implementing creative and unconventional design methods, while also involving end users throughout the design process.
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Rachel Tan
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Rachel is a research assistant in the HEAD Lab, which focuses on traumatic brain injuries sustained in various applications. Her research revolves around the development of rating systems for the evaluation of protective capabilities in both industrial safety helmets and bicycle helmets.
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Dr Hao Wu
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
Hao's research is focused on a range of advanced metal manufacturing and processing techniques, including friction stir welding, friction drilling, and additive manufacturing. Hao is also using innovative materials characterisation methods, including microtomography, electron microscopy, digital image correlation, and finite element modelling, to optimise manufacturing, enhancing product performance and increasing the sustainability of the processes. As a Research Associate at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Hao's work centres on a novel energy-efficient metal stamping process. His responsibilities include optimising the process by improving the dimensional accuracy of the products and enhancing process efficiency. The work aims to demonstrate its superiority over conventional processes and facilitate its adoption in industrial production.
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Haoyu Zuo
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Location
Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Research
AI-Enhanced Building Materials Audits