The Dyson School of Design Engineering's currently visiting academics, researchers, and PhD students can be found below.

Academic Visitors

  • Prof. Nick Munro

    Nick Munro

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    Prof. Nick Munro Visiting Professor

    +44 (0) 7803 016527

    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 Aidan Hogg

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    Dr Aidan Hogg Honorary Research Associate

    Research

    Aidan's research focuses on using deep learning to capture head-related transfer functions and, more generally, spatial acoustics and immersive audio. Aidan's research interests include speaker diarization and statistical signal processing for audio applications. More information about his current research projects can be found at: www.aidanhogg.uk.

    Location

    Dyson Building, 
    South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Pengfei Mi

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    Dr Pengfei Mi Honorary Research Associate

    Research

    Pengfei endeavours to translate the power of innovation from research into impactful outcome in the realm of enterprise, through collaboration with partners at German and Chinese universities. In addition, Pengfei works with Academic Services at Imperial to develop and deliver a series of seasonal school programmes, highlighting what Design Engineering can offer, such as creativity in design, design thinking, fast prototyping, and enterprising.

    Location

    Office 205, Dyson Building, 
    South Kensington Campus

  • Dr Ali Mohammed

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    Dr Ali Mohammed Honorary Lecturer

    Research

    Ali’s research includes the development and design of novel materials for additive manufacturing used in soilless cultivation, tissue engineering, medical implants and cancer biology. His research also includes the optimisation and design of advanced additive manufacturing techniques and technologies such as bioprinting and stereolithography.

    Location

    Dyson Building, 
    South Kensington Campus

  • Laura Moradbakhti

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    Laura Moradbakhti Honorary Research Associate

    Research

    Laura's research focuses on integrating the support of basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) in technology design processes to foster user wellbeing and technology acceptance. She works closely with industry partners to improve their current design processes. Laura is also interested in understanding how basic psychological need frustration in technology interaction can lead to mental harm. Specifically, she is working on tools that can be applied by developers to assess whether their technologies can cause mental harm, for example by hindering users’ need for autonomy.

    Location

    Dyson Building, 
    South Kensington Campus

  • Agnese Piselli

    Agnese Piselli

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    Agnese Piselli PhD Student in Design at Politecnico di Milano

    Research

    Project Title:
    Materials selection in the professional appliances industry

    Interests:
    - Materials Selection
    - Materials Experience
    - Sensory analysis test
    - University–industry collaboration

  • Soheil Sarabandi

    Soheil Sarabandi portrait photo

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    Soheil Sarabandi PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia

    Research

    Project Title:
    Study and development of novel soft robots for dexterous manipulation and grasping

    Interests:
    - Kinematics and Robot Design
    - Manipulation
    - Geometric Registration

  • Ali Shiva

    Ali Shiva

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    Ali Shiva PhD Student at King's College London

    Research

    Project Title:
    Towards Soft Interaction: Active Haptic Perception in Soft Continuum Robots

    Interests:
    - Robotics
    - Dynamics
    - Control Engineering 
    - Morphological Computation