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