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In this section

  • Department of Aeronautics
  • Michela Gramola - Amelia Earhart Fellow
  • Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei - Tutor for Women
  • Nnaemeka Anyamele - UROP student
  • Dr Qianqian Li - Senior Lecturer
  • Kirushika Ganthaswamy - Alumni Profile
  • Kyriakos Kantarakias - PhD Student
  • Charlie Muir - PhD Student
  • Danielle O'Driscoll - PhD Student
  • Ali Arslan - PhD student
  • Benita Nortmann - PhD Student
  • Mario Lino Valencia - PhD student
  • Ahmed Asiliskender - PhD Student
  • Feifei Ren - PhD Student
  • Fabian Wiesemüller - PhD Student
  • James Hammond - PhD Student
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  • Michela Gramola - Amelia Earhart Fellow
  • Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei - Tutor for Women
  • Nnaemeka Anyamele - UROP student
  • Dr Qianqian Li - Senior Lecturer
  • Kirushika Ganthaswamy - Alumni Profile
  • Kyriakos Kantarakias - PhD Student
  • Charlie Muir - PhD Student
  • Danielle O'Driscoll - PhD Student
  • Ali Arslan - PhD student
  • Benita Nortmann - PhD Student
  • Mario Lino Valencia - PhD student
  • Ahmed Asiliskender - PhD Student
  • Feifei Ren - PhD Student
  • Fabian Wiesemüller - PhD Student
  • James Hammond - PhD Student

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With our profiles, we want to showcase our talented students and staff members. We aim to highlight individuals' research achievements and to give you the chance to find out more about some of the brilliant people at the Department of Aeronautics. 

Dr Qianqian Li

Dr Qianqian Li - Senior Lecturer

We talk about Dr Li about her background, research and how the Department supported her during her maternity leave.

Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei

Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei - Tutor for Women

The Tutor for Women role offers female Aeronautics students the chance to discuss personal and professional issues with a female member of staff

Kirushika

Kirushika Ganthaswamy - alumni profile

We interview Kirushika, a former Aero MSc student who is now a systems engineer at Airbus Defence and Space

Nnaemeka Anyamele

Nnaemeka Anyamele - UROP Student

As part of the UROP scheme, Nnaemeka assisted on COVID-19 research looking into the transmission risk of viruses during outdoor exercise.

Professor Peter Bearman

Emeritus Professor Peter Bearman

Until his retirement in 2020, Peter Bearman worked in the Department for over 50 years. We spoke to Peter about his wide-ranging career.

PhD Student profiles

Learn about our talented PhD students, their varied, fascinating projects and what being a researcher at the Department of Aeronautics is like with our PhD student profiles.

Ahmed Asiliskender

Ahmed Asiliskender

Ahmed’s research concerns Liquid Resin Injection Strategy

Ali Arslan

Ali Arslan

Ali’s research sees him conduct analysis of Fluid Flows using Convex Optimisation

Benita Nortmann

Benita Nortmann

Benita talks about her research on Control Design using limited information.

Charles Muir

Charles Muir

Charlie’s PhD sees him develop and test Microscale Rocket Propulsion Systems

Danielle O'Driscoll

Danielle O'Driscoll

Danielle talks to us about her research designing Rigid-Deployable Aeroshells for Atmospheric Entry.

Fabian Wiesemuller

Fabian Wiesemüller

Fabian’s research is on a new class of Bio-hybrid Aerial Robots

Feifei Ren and her cat

Feifei Ren

Feifei discusses her research in damage detection and sensitivity analysis of composite structures

James Hammond

James Hammond

James’ research focuses on integrating data-driven turbulence modelling into fluid-structure topology optimisation.

Kyriakos Kantarakias

Kyriakos Kantarakias

Kyriakos’ research looks at the Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of Chaotic Systems

Lloyd Fung

Lloyd Fung

Lloyd’s research sees him modelling the collective behaviour of swimming microorganisms in fluid

Mario Lino Valencia

Mario Lino Valencia

Mario talks about his research on the application of Neural Networks to Fluid Dynamics Simulations

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