Spacecraft design

Name	Department	Research
Aliabadi, Ferri	Aeronautics	Computational structural mechanics, fracture mechanics and fatigue, multiscale modelling, and boundary, meshless and finite element methods
Hall, Phil	Mathematics	Laminar flow control, spacecraft launching vehicle aerodynamics
Leschziner, Michael A	Aeronautics	Computational aerodynamics
Morrison, Jonathan F	Aeronautics	Flow control, aerodynamics
Ruban, Anatoly I	Mathematics	Laminar flow control, spacecraft launching vehicle aerodynamics
Sherwin, Spencer J	Aeronautics	Laminar flow control, spacecraft launching vehicle aerodynamics
Wu, Xuesong	Mathematics	Laminar flow control, spacecraft launching vehicle aerodynamics

Sensors

Name	Department	Research
Brown, Patrick	Physics	Instrumentation, Fluxgate Magnetometers, Magnetoresistive Sensors
Carr, Christopher M	Physics	Space instrumentation, Magnetometers, Electronics for the space environment, Payload data-handling systems, Solar-wind interaction with comets
Hassard, John F	Physics	Satellite imaging, large scale data mining related to security.
Murray, Ray	Physics	Photonics and Telecommunications
Pike, Tom (William)	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Development and operation of microscope station on Phoenix mission; development and operation of microseismometers on InSight mission; landing-site selection for InSight
Sumner, Timothy J	Physics	LISA and LISA Pathfinder missions whose scientific objective is to put a gravitational wave observatory in space. Member of the ESA SSAC committee.

Satellite sub-systems

Name	Department	Research
Kerrigan, Eric C	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Control, estimation and real-time embedded computing systems

Satellite deployables

Name	Department	Research
Peiro, Joaquim	Aeronautics	Numerical simulation of fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction and development of enabling technologies for large multi-physics and multi-scale simulations
Santer, Matthew	Aeronautics	Deployables for satellites

Robotics

Name	Department	Research
Kerrigan, Eric C	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Development of efficient numerical methods and embedded computing architectures for solving advanced optimization, control and signal processing problems in real-time.
Kovac, Mirko	Aeronautics	Conception and design of novel morphologies and locomotion methods for mobile robots and their analogy in biological systems

Mission design, covering launch, space, ground and operations segments

Name	Department	Research
Clements, Dave L	Physics	Extragalactic far-infrared and submillimetre astronomy, star formation, dust in galaxies, Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, The quasar-galaxy connection. Herschel project. Instrument ground testing, data processing and analysis software development, instrument health and trend monitoring, ground segment operations
Ghail, Richard	Earth Sciences Engineering	Understanding Earth and Venus geology, including plate recycling
Pike, Tom (William)	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Development and operation of microscope station on Phoenix mission; development and operation of microseismometers on InSight mission; landing-site selection for InSight

Materials

Name	Department	Research
Alford, Neil	Materials	Research into a solid state MASER capable of operating at room temperature and in the Earth
Ekins-Daukes, Ned J	Physics	High efficiency photovoltaic solar cells and radiation effects in semiconductors
Kilner, John A	Materials	Energy materials
Lin, Jianguo	Mechanical Engineering	Metal forming
McCall, Martin W	Physics	Space time cloaking, metamaterials and complex media
Oxborrow, Mark	Materials	Research into a solid state MASER capable of operating at room temperature and in the Earth

Instrument design and operations

Name	Department	Research
Pike, Tom (William)	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Development and operation of microscope station on Phoenix mission; development and operation of microseismometers on InSight mission; landing-site selection for InSight