Academic & Teaching Staff
Academic and Teaching staff in the Dyson School of Design Engineering are listed below. Follow the link on each name for more information about the person.
Academic & Teaching Staff
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Maria Apud Bell
Interests
With a background in Biochemistry and Innovation Design Engineering, Maria is a design scientist, interested in bridging the gap between the creative and scientific world through the use of collaborative design methodologies.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Marco Aurisicchio
Interests
Marco Aurisicchio's current research activity focuses on using new design and manufacturing methods to develop complex systems in the healthcare, construction and nuclear sectors.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Weston Baxter
Interests
Weston Baxter’s current research activity focuses on creating meaningful user experiences particularly as they relate to changing contexts in design.
Location
Room 1M02, RCS1
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Dr David Boyle
Interests
David’s research centres around Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things. This covers a variety of topics, including: designing reliable, secure, energy efficient wireless communication systems and energy transfer.
Location
Room 1M04, RCS1
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Prof. Rafael Calvo
Interests
Rafael Calvo is interested in the design of systems that support wellbeing in areas of mental health, medicine and education, and the ethical challenges raised by new technologies.
Location
Room 1M03, RCS1
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Dr Michel-Alexandre Cardin
Interests
Michel-Alexandre’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of new computer aided methodologies to support the design of engineering systems under uncertainty, with applications in infrastructure and financial systems.
Location
Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Prof. Peter Cheung
Interests
Peter Cheung’s research focus is in digital reconfigurable systems; VLSI architecture; system reliability and embedded system design. He currently teaches the electronics modules in Years 1 and 2 in Design Engineering.
Location
Level 9, Room 910
Electrical & Electronic Engineering Building
South Kensington
London
SW7 2BT -
Prof. Peter Childs
Interests
Peter Childs' general interests include: creativity; the application of creativity tools; mechanical and product design; robotics; rotating flow, temperature and its measurement, sustainable energy component, concept and system design.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Samuel Cooper
Interests
Sam Cooper’s research interests include the design and analysis of energy storage systems both at the microscale, as well as at the device level. He is also experience in the use of machine learning algorithms for the analysis of 3D image data.
For admissions, please email design.engineering@imperial.ac.uk .
Location
Room 1M04A, RCS1
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Dr Pelin Demirel
Interests
Pelin Demirel is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Her most recent research projects are motivated by investigating the potential of innovations and entrepreneurship for a more sustainable and inclusive society.
Location
Room 1M06, RCS1
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Prof. Sebastian Deterding
Interests
Sebastian Deterding works on motivational design for well-being and behaviour change. He is particularly interested in translational research and design methods, human-AI co-creative design systems, theoretical and computational formalisations of motivational experiences, gamification and playful design, and motivational design for climate/energy transitions, health, and human-AI interactions.
Location
Room 1M05, RCS1
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Dr Elena Dieckmann
Interests
Elena is a teaching fellow for the Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) program. She has previously worked in the automotive industry in Germany, Russia and the Middle East. Her research is concerned with the development of fully biodegradable functional natural fibre textiles.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Mark Friddin
Interests
Mark is an expert in microfluidics, optofluidics, rapid prototyping, ion channel electrophysiology and bottom-up synthetic biology. His core research aims are to develop new platform technologies for additive biomanufacturing.
Location
Level 3, Dyson Building
Imperial College London
South Kensington
London SW7 2AZ -
Audrey Gaulard
Interests
As an Alumni from IDE and a background in Fashion Design, Audrey is a true Hybrid Designer working across various industries. She is simultaneously working as the co-founder of The Polyfloss Factory, developing a candy floss machine to recycle plastic, while being the Senior Designer of Random International, the art installation studio and finally a teaching Fellow in IDE
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Chandramohan George
Interests
Dr Chandramohan George is a lecturer leading the sub-theme “smart energy technologies and materials”. His Research Group is focused on materials design and manufacturing, solar batteries, soft batteries, beyond Li ion technologies and smart devices.
Location
Room 1M04A, RCS1
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Dr Mazdak Ghajari
Interests
Mazdak Ghajari's research focuses on understanding biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and designing advanced protective devices.
Location
Room 1M05, RCS1
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Dr Stephen Green
Interests
Stephen Green's interests include the evolving methods, methodologies and professional practice of design; in particular with open and collaborative design and innovation, the understanding of design impact, application of branding, design for external environments and product service systems.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Petar Kormushev
Interests
Petar Kormushev's research interests include robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His main research focus is on robot learning algorithms, especially reinforcement learning for intelligent robot behaviour.
Location
Room 1M07, RCS1
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Olga Kravchenko
Interests
Olga is a Teaching Fellow at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. She is a Product Designer and a Computational Designer specializing in computational intelligence applications for product design.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Nan Li
Interests
Nan Li’s research addresses one of the major challenges facing the transportation industry world-wide: the development of breakthrough technologies to manufacture and design high-performance lightweight vehicles for a more environmentally-friendly footprint.
Location
Room 1M03, RCS1
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Prof. Andrew McPherson
Affiliations
Andrew McPherson's research on digital musical instrument design draws on embedded hardware, human-computer interaction, embodied cognition, and science and technology studies to create interactive systems and examine the values embedded into new technologies.
Location
Room 301B, Dyson Building, Level 3
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Dr Celine Mougenot
Interests
Céline Mougenot specializes in Design Research. Her aim is to develop an understanding of “designing”, with a focus on creativity and collaboration.
Location
Room 1M06, RCS1
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Prof. Nick Munro
Interests
Nick Munro is interested in the design of products which deliver sustainability through elegance in form, efficiency in function and relevance in purpose. This applies to items ranging from new technology cutlery for airlines to innovative air quality monitoring systems for hospitals, hotels and commercial buildings.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Connor Myant
Interests
Connor Myant works on developing design methodologies specific to Additive Manufacturing, as well as developing novel 3D printing processes.
Location
Room 1M05, RCS1
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Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara
Interests
Thrishantha's research in controllable stiffness robots tries to understand how physical circuits in the body and environment contribute to solve computational problems to do with efficient survival in unstructured environments.
Location
Room 1M07, RCS1
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Dr Freddie Page
Personal details
Dr Freddie Page Strategic Teaching Fellow, Director of Undergraduate StudiesInterests
Freddie's role is the curriculum review of the MEng, so that our students get the most out of our course, becoming competitive graduates in a changing jobs market.
He has interests in: computer graphics, web applications and interfaces, machine learning, metamaterials, and interactive learning and teaching methods.Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Lorenzo Picinali
Interests
Lorenzo Picinali's work focuses on 3D binaural sound rendering, interactive applications for the blind, audiology and audiometric techniques, hearing aids technology, and audio and haptic interaction.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Prof. Pierre Pinson
Interests
Pierre is interested in finding ways to generate optimal value for society and various stakeholders from data. This translates to a methodological focus on analytics, forecasting, optimization and game theory, mainly. On the applied side, he looks at energy and sustainability, weather-sensitive industries, business analytics, logistics and retail, etc.
Location
Room 1M04, RCS1
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Dr Talya Porat
Interests
Talya Porat's research is in the fields of human factors, human-computer interaction, usability and cognitive engineering. She is particularly interested in decision-making processes and how to design and evaluate effective interactive healthcare interventions to improve patient outcomes and reduce medical errors.
Location
Room 1M06, RCS1
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Prof. Robert Shorten
Personal details
Prof. Robert Shorten Professor of Cyber Physical Systems Design, Deputy Head of DepartmentSend email+44 7863879679
Interests
Hybrid Dynamical Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems; Sharing Economy; and Smart Mobility/Cities
Location
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Level 3, Dyson Building
Imperial College London
South Kensington
London SW7 2AZ -
Dr Nicolas Rojas
Interests
Nicolas' research focuses on the analysis, design, and implementation of novel, divergent robotic systems for manipulation and grasping under diversity and uncertainty, with the long-term goal of surpassing the manipulation capabilities observed in humans and other animals in all conditions.
Location
Room 1M07, RCS1
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Dr Shayan Sharifi
Personal details
Dr Shayan Sharifi Principal Teaching Fellow, Director of Undergraduate StudiesSend email+44 (0)20 7594 9619
Interests
Shayan is working on developing technologies to remove plastics from rivers and oceans. The objective of his work is to radically re-think the current methods and address the common challenges such as sorting, wear, and energy dissipation.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Leila Sheldrick
Interests
Leila Sheldrick’s research explores the future of design, and aims to identify how to realise sustainable systems of consumption and production.
Location
Room 1M02, RCS1
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Charlotte Slingsby
Interests
Charlotte Slingsby is passionate about using design as a tool for transformation within engineering. Her personal work ranges from renewable energy solutions to cybersecurity tools with a keen interest in system and user centred design.
Location
Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB -
Dr Rebecca Stewart
Interests
Rebecca Stewart’s research interests are in wearable technology with a focus on binaural audio and textile interfaces. She is also investigating methods for enabling research innovations to be more accessible to applications designers.
Location
Room 1M02, RCS1
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Dr Nejra van Zalk
Interests
Nejra van Zalk leads the Design Psychology Lab , which focuses on understanding psychological mechanisms that govern human behaviour, emotions, and decision-making processes related to designing products, services, and behavioural interventions that benefit mental health.
Location
Room 1M04, RCS1
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Dr Billy Wu
Personal details
Dr Billy Wu Senior Lecturer, Post Graduate Research TutorSend email+44 (0)20 7594 6385
Interests
Billy Wu works on improving and developing electrochemical devices (batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitor) as well as manufacturing processes (3D printing, electrospinning).
Location
Room 1M04A, RCS1