People

Academics associated with Structural Applications

• Dr Soraia Pimenta
• Dr Dan Plant
• Dr Paul Hooper
• Dr Declan Carolan
• Dr Maria Charalambides
• Dr Bamber Blackman
• Dr Greg Offer
• Professor Tony Kinloch FREng FRS
• Professor Gordon Williams FREng FRS
• Professor John P. Dear

PhDs associated with Structural Applications

• George Irven- “Impact performance of sandwich materials with tailorable cores” - supervised by Declan Carolan, Alex Fergusson and John Dear
• Yuzhe Ding- “Impact of composites and Fibre Metal Laminates” - supervised by Haibao Liu, Marc Masen and John Dear
• Jun Liu - "Impact testing of laminated glass and composites" - supervised by Haibao Liu, Rod Smith and John Dear
• Robert Quinn - "SHPB evaluation of materials" - supervised by Paul Hooper and John Dear
• Christine Ng - Damage development in transparent materials - supervised by Bamber Blackman and John Dear
• Yan Zhao - "Li-Ion battery thermal runaway modelling" - supervised by Greg Offer, Yatish Patel and John Dear
• Mei-Chin Pang –“Modelling of solid-state lithium batteries” – supervised by Greg Offer, Mu Chen and John Dear
• Emily Rolfe - "Blast performance of composites structures" - supervised by Paul Hooper, Hari Arora and John Dear
• Alexander Sancho - "Constitutive properties and damage development in materials" - supervised by Paul Hooper, Catrin Davies and John Dear
• Mohammed Amin Samieian - "Blast performance of laminated glass facades" - supervised by Paul Hooper, Bamber Blackman and John Dear
• Youssef Ibrahim - "Additive manufacture of materials" - supervised by Paul Hooper, Catrin Davies and John Dear

Recently graduated PhDs

• 2018- Dr Mohammad Amin Samieian - Post-doctorate - Battery Group
• 2018- Dr Youssef Ibrahim - Research Engineer - Robotics Company
• 2018- Alex Sancho - Research Engineer, AFRC -Strathclyde
• 2018 – Dr Wei Xiong  - Research Engineer, AVIC
• 2017 – Dr Cihan Kaboglu – Associate Professor - Bursa Technical University
• 2017 – Dr Jie Zhou – Engineer – International Bureau Aviation
• 2017 – Dr James Tebbutt – Research Engineer - Dyson
• 2016 - Dr Long Yu - Aerospace Research Engineer, China
• 2015 - Dr Joseph Ahn - Post-Doctorate, Imperial
• 2015 - Dr Yi Wang - Research Engineer - World Meteorological Organization, Geneva
• 2015 - Dr Mark Kelly - Research Engineer - BAE Systems, UK
• 2015 - Dr Shouhua Chen - Research Analyst - McKinsey, Shanghai
• 2014 - Dr Alex Worley - Patent Attorney, London
• 2013 - Dr Paolo Del Linz - Academic, NTU
• 2013 - Dr Hao Yang - Aerospace Research Engineer, China

Vacancies

There are vacancies for PhD students. The research will involve aspects of mechanical characterisation and structural assessment under impact and high rate loading conditions. The awards will cover fees and living expenses.

In all the programmes, the successful applicant will join an active and very well equipped group with extensive experimental and theoretical facilities.

For further details please email Professor J.P. Dear - j.dear@imperial.ac.uk.