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

Research Academics

A concise list of all Research Academics at Dyson School of Design Engineering

Teaching Fellows

A concise list of all Teaching Fellows at Dyson School of Design Engineering

Research Academics

  • Prof. Robert Shorten

    Personal details

    Prof. Robert Shorten Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering

    +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 Marco Aurisicchio

    Marco Aurisicchio

    Personal details

    Dr Marco Aurisicchio Reader in Engineering Design

    +44 (0)20 7594 7095

    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

    Personal details

    Dr Weston Baxter Senior Lecturer

    +44 (0)20 7594 6894

    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

  • Dr David Boyle

    Personal details

    Dr David Boyle Senior Lecturer

    (0)20 7594 8172

    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

  • Prof. Rafael Calvo

    Professor Rafael Calvo, artificial intelligence, director or research, design engineering, imperial professor

    Personal details

    Prof. Rafael Calvo Chair in Engineering Design

    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

  • Dr Michel-Alexandre Cardin

    Personal details

    Dr Michel-Alexandre Cardin Senior Lecturer in Computational Aided Engineering, Examinations Officer

    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

    Personal details

    Prof. Peter Cheung Professor of Digital Systems

    +44 (0)20 7594 6200

    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

    Peter Childs Design Engineering academic staff

    Personal details

    Prof. Peter Childs Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL)

    +44 (0)20 7594 7049

    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

    Personal details

    Dr Samuel Cooper Senior Lecturer, Admissions Tutor

    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

  • Dr Pelin Demirel

    Personal details

    Dr Pelin Demirel Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Research Student Tutor, Director of Inclusive Practice

    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

  • Prof. Sebastian Deterding

    Imperial Design Engineering Academic Sebastian Deterding

    Personal details

    Prof. Sebastian Deterding Chair in Design Engineering, REF Champion

    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

  • Dr Elena Dieckmann

    Elena Dieckmann

    Personal details

    Dr Elena Dieckmann Lecturer

    +44 7895302064

    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 Pietro Ferraro

    Lecture Imperial Design Engineering

    Personal details

    Dr Pietro Ferraro Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning

    Research

    Pietro Ferraro’s work focuses on Cyber physical systems, Control theory, Smart grid, Smart cities and mathematical modelling of Distributed Ledger Technologies.

    Location

    Dyson Building, 
    South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Chandramohan George

    Personal details

    Dr Chandramohan George Lecturer

    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

  • Dr Mazdak Ghajari

    Personal details

    Dr Mazdak Ghajari Reader in Brain Biomechanics

    +44 (0)20 7594 9236

    Interests

    Mazdak Ghajari's research focuses on understanding biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and designing advanced protective devices.

    Location

    Room 1M05, RCS1

  • Dr Petar Kormushev

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    Personal details

    Dr Petar Kormushev Senior Lecturer

    +44 (0)20 7594 9235

    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

  • Dr Nan Li

    Personal details

    Dr Nan Li Senior Lecturer

    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

  • Prof. Andrew McPherson

    Personal details

    Prof. Andrew McPherson Chair in Design Engineering and Music

    Interests

    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

  • Dr Celine Mougenot

    Personal details

    Dr Celine Mougenot Senior Lecturer

    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

  • Dr Connor Myant

    Connor Myant

    Personal details

    Dr Connor Myant Senior Lecturer

    +44 (0)20 7594 9893

    Interests

    Connor Myant works on developing design methodologies specific to Additive Manufacturing, as well as developing novel 3D printing processes.

    Location

    Room 1M05, RCS1

  • Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara

    Thrishantha Nanayakkara

    Personal details

    Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara Professor in Robotics

    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

  • Dr Lorenzo Picinali

    Personal details

    Dr Lorenzo Picinali Reader in Audio Experience Design

    +44 (0)20 7594 8158

    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

    Personal details

    Prof. Pierre Pinson Professor, Chair of data-centric design engineering, Deputy Head of Department

    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

  • Dr Talya Porat

    Personal details

    Dr Talya Porat Senior Lecturer, Senior Tutor

    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

  • Dr Nicolas Rojas

    Nicolas Rojas

    Personal details

    Dr Nicolas Rojas Senior Lecturer

    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

  • Dr Leila Sheldrick

    Personal details

    Dr Leila Sheldrick Senior Lecturer

    +44 (0)20 7594 9762

    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

  • Dr Rebecca Stewart

    Personal details

    Dr Rebecca Stewart Senior Lecturer

    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

  • Dr Nejra van Zalk

    Nejra Van Zalk

    Personal details

    Dr Nejra van Zalk Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Factors

    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

  • Dr Billy Wu

    Personal details

    Dr Billy Wu Reader, Post Graduate Research Tutor, Director of Research

    +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

  • Dr Yunlong Zhao

    Senior Lecturer, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London lecturer, Engineering, engineer

    Personal details

    Dr Yunlong Zhao Senior Lecturer in Energy Storage and Bioelectronics Design

    +44 7377 977 576

    Interests

    Yunlong Zhao’s research on the rational design and development of novel electrochemical energy storage devices, sensors, bioelectronics, and their integration into both 2D on-chip and 3D soft systems for electrochemical and physiological interrogation, and applications in Sustainability and Healthcare.

    Location

    Room 301B, Dyson Building, Level 3

Teaching fellows

  • Maria Apud Bell

    Maria J

    Personal details

    Maria Apud Bell Senior Teaching Fellow, School Careers Officer

    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

  • Sheraz Arif

    Personal details

    Sheraz Arif Teaching Fellow

    Location

    Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus

  • Audrey Gaulard

    Personal details

    Audrey Gaulard Senior Teaching Fellow

    07593 247316

    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 Stephen Green

    Personal details

    Dr Stephen Green Principal Teaching Fellow, Academic Tutor

    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 Kamyar Hazeri

    Teaching fellow design engineering

    Personal details

    Dr Kamyar Hazeri Teaching Fellow

    Affiliations

    Kamyar Hazeri's interests focus on Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Aerodynamics, Automotive and Product Design, as well as the assessment of product creativity, sustainability, and building energy performance.

    Location

    Dyson Building, Level 1

  • Olga Kravchenko

    Olga

    Personal details

    Olga Kravchenko Teaching Fellow

    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 Freddie Page

    Freddie Page lecturer design engineering

    Personal details

    Dr Freddie Page Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow, Director of Undergraduate Studies

    Interests

    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 Shayan Sharifi

    Personal details

    Dr Shayan Sharifi Principal Teaching Fellow, Director of Education

    +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

  • Charlotte Slingsby

    Charlotte Slingsby

    Personal details

    Charlotte Slingsby Senior Teaching Fellow

    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