Meet some of our PhD students

Current PhD students

Meet some of our current research students from across the Department.

Aakeen Parikh

Aakeen

Aakeen works on turbochargers used in automotive applications.
Alison

Alison

Alison is researching the structural integrity of the pressure vessels in nuclear reactors.
Arshad Kalathil landscape

Arshad

Arshad's research aims to find the underlying working mechanism of articular cartilage.
Jack Hayes landscape

Jack

Jack investigates injuries from prosthetics in lower limb amputees

Matei Ciuncanu landscape

Matei

Matei researches thermal management using novel manufacturing techniques.

Rikeen Jobanputra

Rikeen

Rikeen is researching skin-surface interaction in the Tribology group.

Ruihe Li landscape

Ruihe

Ruihe's researches prolonging the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries
Thomas

Thomas

Thomas's research is focussed on numerical simulations of small particles in flows.

Tom Hall

Tom

Tom's research is focused on smart orthopaedic surgery.

Alumni

Find out more about some of our alumni who were postgraduate research students in the Department. 

Armel de Montgros

Dr Armel de Montgros

Dr Armel de Montgros is part of the Mercedes team behind Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's amazing performances on Formula 1 tracks.

Bruce Drinkwater

Professor Bruce Drinkwater

Professor Bruce Drinkwater is currently researching and lecturing at the University of Bristol.
Chris Guyott

Dr Chris Guyott

Dr Chris Guyott is engineering director at Frazer-Nash which has eight UK offices and three in Australia.
Dan Plant

Dr Dan Plant

Dr Dan Plant returned to Imperial to do a PhD as part of an entrepreneurial scheme with the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Maggie Aderin Pocock

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist, science communicator and presenter of the BBC's The Sky at Night.
Marco Morbidini

Dr Marco Morbidini

Dr Marco Morbidini is a UK and European patent attorney and senior associate at Scott & York Intellectual Property Law.
Peter Collins

Dr Peter Collins

Dr Collins leads Permasense, the world leader in non-intrusive continuous integrity monitoring systems with a customer base on every continent.