Academic and Research Staff

  • Professor M.H. Ferri Aliabadi

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    Professor M.H. Ferri Aliabadi Professor of Aerostructures Zaharoff Chair in Aviation

    +44 (0)20 7594 5077

    Location

    E459 ACE Extension

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ London, UK

    Research interest

    - Structural Health Monitoring

    - Composite materials

    - Computational fracture and damage mechanics

    - Boundary Element Method

    - Structural integrity

  • Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei

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    Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei Reader in structural Integrity

    +44 (0)20 7594 5116

    Location

    E356 ACE Extension

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research interest

    - Structural Health Monitoring

    - Damage detection and characterization

    - Optimisation

    - Reliabiilty and risk analysis

    - Numerical analysis

  • Dr Ilias Giannakeas

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    Dr Ilias Giannakeas Research Associate

    Location

    141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    AW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interrest:

    -St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,

    - Numerical analysis, Computational methods

    - Digital Twin development 

  • Dr Ali Nokhbatolfoghahaei

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    Dr Ali Nokhbatolfoghahaei Research Associate

    Location

    210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interest

    Structural Health Monitoring, numerical modelling of guided waves, damage detection and characterisation

  • Dr Francisco Rodrigues

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    Dr Francisco Rodrigues Research Associate

    Location

    1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Research interest : Structural health monitoring of complex composite structures

     

  • Haolin Li

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    Haolin Li Research Assitance

    Location

    1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Numerical modelling of composite structures

    Expected end date: May 2024

PhD Students

  • Dong Xiao

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    Dong Xiao PhD student

    Location

    Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building 

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title:  Uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis of composite structures 

    Expected end date: 2025

  • Fanzeng Guo

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    Fanzeng Guo PhD student

    Location

    Room 208, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building 

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures

    Expected end date: 2025

  • Fatih Dagsever

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    Fatih Dagsever Research Postgraduate

    Location

    1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Industry 4.0 for structural intergirty assessment of composite structures

    Expected end date: 2024

  • Yuhang Pan

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    Yuhang Pan PhD student

    Location

    Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building 

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Baseline free methods for guided wave based structural health monitoring, Dictionary learning approach for damage detection 

    Expected end date: 2027

  • Yuhang Pan

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    Yuhang Pan PhD student

    Location

    Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building 

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Virtual Element Method for Structural Mechanics

    Expected end date: 2027

  • Samet Ceri

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    Samet Ceri Research Postgraduate

    Location

    1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Computational Methods for structural Health Monitoring of structures under high velocity impact

    Expected end date: 2023

  • Dr Tafara Makuni

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    Dr Tafara Makuni Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Digital Twin development for Aircraft structures: Aerodynamics and Structures interaction

    Expected end date: 2027

  • Yuhang Pan

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    Yuhang Pan PhD student

    Location

    Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building 

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Machine learning methods for damage detection of complex composite structures

    Expected end date: 2025

Former staff and students

  • Dr Hamed Farokhi

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    Dr Hamed Farokhi Research Associate

    Research Interrest:

    - Nonlinear vibration and dynamic analysis of continuous systems

    - Design and modelling of composite structures

    - Nonlinear characteristics of micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS)

  • Kwangkyu (Alex) Yoo

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    Kwangkyu (Alex) Yoo PhD student

    020 7594 5141

    Location

    Room 208, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Reliability and robustness optimisation of composite materials

    Expected end date: 2021

  • Amin Salehzadeh Nobari

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    Amin Salehzadeh Nobari Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Hardware/software development for impact detection in aircraft structures

  • Dr. Fangxin (Frank) Zou

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    Dr. Fangxin (Frank) Zou Assistant Professor BEng (Sydney, Hons I), PhD(Imperial), AMRAeS, MInstP

    34008066

    Location

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    Interdiscipliary division of Aeronautics and Aviation Engineering

    Office: QR826

    PhD thesis

    A Boundary Element Method for Modelling Piezoelectric Transducer based Structural Health Monitoring 

    End date: 2015

  • Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales

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    Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales Research Computing Support Officer

    020 7594 5123

    Location

    E257  ACE Extension

    South Kensington Campus

    AW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interrest:

    - Numerical Analysis

    - Optimisation

    - Finite Element Modelling of Composite materials

  • Dr Wongon Kim

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    Dr Wongon Kim Research Associate

    Location

    210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interest

    Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin development for transformative air vehicles with IoT sensors 

  • Dr Saleh Salmanpour

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    Dr Saleh Salmanpour Former PhD student and Research Postgraduate

    PhD thesis

    Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Plates under Operational Conditions using Piezoelectric Transducers

    Graduated in 2017

  • Cheng Xu

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    Cheng Xu PhD student

    Location

    2nd Floor City and guild building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Fibre Optic sensors for Structural Health Monitoring application

    Expected end date: 2021

  • Dr Fatemeh Mazaheri

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    Dr Fatemeh Mazaheri Research Associate

    Location

    141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    AW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interrest:

    - Design and analysis of composite structures

    - Numerical modelling

    - Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis 

  • Dr Mazdak Ghajari

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    Dr Mazdak Ghajari Lecturer, Dyson School of Design Engineering (Former Research Associate)

    +44 (0)20 7594 9236

    Location

    Dyson Building

    South Kensington Campus

    Research Interrest:

    - Computational modelling of impact and damage in composite structures,

    - SHM using the electromechanical impedance method.

  • Dr Sina Asadi

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    Dr Sina Asadi Research Associate

    Location

    210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    AW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interrest:

    - Design and analysis of composite structures

    - Numerical modelling

    - Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis 

  • Dr Ivano Benedetti

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    Dr Ivano Benedetti Senior Lecturer, (Former Marie Curie IE fellow)

    +39 091 238 96728

    Location

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale e dei Materiali
    Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 8,
    90128, Palermo, Italy

    Research Interrest:

    - Computational mechanics,

    - Micromechanics,

    - Boundary element Method.

    Affiliations: Marie Curie IE Fellow

  • Dr Vincenzo Mallardo

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    Dr Vincenzo Mallardo Associate Professor (Visiting Lecturer)

    +39 0532 293621

    Location

    Department of Architecture

    University of Ferrara (Italy)

    Research Interrest:

    - Identification and Optimization in Structural Health Monitoring

    - Nonlinear Computational Mechanics

    - Isogeometric Boundary Element Method

  • Aldy Hami Seno

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    Aldy Hami Seno Research Assistance

    Location

    210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interest

    Structural Health Monitoring - Impact detection and identification

  • Feifei Ren

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    Feifei Ren PhD student

    Location

    2nd Floor City and guild building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Structural Health Monitoring

    Expected end date: 2022

  • Florian Lambinet

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    Florian Lambinet Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Structural health monitoring of composite patch repair

  • Dr Yanhong Chen

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    Dr Yanhong Chen Research Associate

    Location

    Impact Engineering Laboratory

    Department of Engineering Science

    University of Oxford

    PhD thesis

    Meshfree micromechanical modelling of the mechanical properties and responses of woven composites

    End date: 2016

  • Dr Dimitrios Bekas

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    Dr Dimitrios Bekas Research Associate

    Location

    210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    AW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interrest:

    - Development and employment of advanced ink-jet printed interdigital sensors and films

    - Structural Health Monitoring

    - Self-sensing and self-healing polymers and polymeric composites

  • Hongmin Zhu

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    Hongmin Zhu PhD student

    Location

    1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title:  Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimates for complex engineering systems.

    Expected end date: 2022-2023

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hongmin-Zhu

  • Dr Hailing Fu

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    Dr Hailing Fu Lecturer at Loughborough University

    Location

    T.2.23, Wolfson Building

    Research Interrest:

    -St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,

    - Low-power sensing systems,

    - Kinetic energy harvesting.

  • Ifan Dafydd

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    Ifan Dafydd Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title:  Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Aerospace Structures: Laser Doppler Vibrometer

    Graduated 2019

  • Jun Li

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    Jun Li Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Structural Health Monitoring for Plate Structures based on a Boundary Spectral Element Method

    Expected end date: 2020

  • Giorgio Geraci

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    Giorgio Geraci Research postgraduate

    Location

    City and Guild Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title:  Micro-cracking evolution in polycrystalline aggregates. A grain-boundary formulation

    Graduated 2018

  • Massimiliano Marrazzo

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    Massimiliano Marrazzo Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Advanced computational methods for modelling of ultrasonic wave propagation

    Expected end date: 2023

  • Mengke Zhuang

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    Mengke Zhuang Research Postgraduate

    Location

    1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Reliability based analysis for Anisotropic plates with the Boundary Element Method

    Expected end date: 2023

  • Llewellyn Morse

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    Llewellyn Morse Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Reliability based analysis with the Boundary Element Method

    Expected end date: 2020

  • Nan Yue

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    Nan Yue Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title:  Structural health monitoring in composite materials, optimization and reliability analysis

    Expected end date: 2019

  • Dr Varindra Kumar

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    Dr Varindra Kumar Research Associate

    Location

    141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

    South Kensington Campus

    AW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Research Interrest:

    Electronics design and development of WSN mesh network with low power STM32 MCU integrated with piezo devices (active/passive acoustic sensors)

    - Integration of energy harvesting, SHM and condition monitoring with inhouse electronics design 

  • Tianyi Feng

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    Tianyi Feng PhD student

    Location

    Room 210, 2nd floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Structural Health Monitoring of thick composite plates

    Expected end date: 2021

  • Tongrui Liu

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    Tongrui Liu PhD student

    020 7594 5141

    Location

    1st floor, city and guilds building 

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Multiscale Data-Driven reduced order modeling for predicting the overall mechanical response of composite structures

    Expected end date: 2023

  • Valentin Buchinger

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    Valentin Buchinger Research Postgraduate

    Location

    2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Utilising SHM methodologies for in-situ manufacturing process monitoring of Composites 

  • Yingwu Li

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    Yingwu Li PhD student

    Location

    2nd Floor City and guild building

    South Kensington Campus

    SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    PhD thesis

    Title: Application of Fibre Optic sensors in Structural Health Monitoring

    Expected end date: 2022

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