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Meet the team
Academic and Research Staff
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Professor M.H. Ferri Aliabadi
Personal details
Professor M.H. Ferri Aliabadi Professor of Aerostructures Zaharoff Chair in AviationSend email+44 (0)20 7594 5077
Location
E459 ACE Extension
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ London, UK
Research interest
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Composite materials
- Computational fracture and damage mechanics
- Boundary Element Method
- Structural integrity
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Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei
Personal details
Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei Reader in structural IntegritySend email+44 (0)20 7594 5116
Location
E356 ACE Extension
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research interest
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Damage detection and characterization
- Optimisation
- Reliabiilty and risk analysis
- Numerical analysis
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Dr Ilias Giannakeas
Location
141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interrest:
-St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,
- Numerical analysis, Computational methods
- Digital Twin development
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Dr Ali Nokhbatolfoghahaei
Location
210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interest
Structural Health Monitoring, numerical modelling of guided waves, damage detection and characterisation
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Dr Francisco Rodrigues
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Research interest : Structural health monitoring of complex composite structures
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Haolin Li
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Numerical modelling of composite structures
Expected end date: May 2024
PhD Students
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Dong Xiao
Location
Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis of composite structures
Expected end date: 2025
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Fanzeng Guo
Location
Room 208, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures
Expected end date: 2025
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Fatih Dagsever
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Industry 4.0 for structural intergirty assessment of composite structures
Expected end date: 2024
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Yuhang Pan
Location
Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Baseline free methods for guided wave based structural health monitoring, Dictionary learning approach for damage detection
Expected end date: 2027
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Yuhang Pan
Location
Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Virtual Element Method for Structural Mechanics
Expected end date: 2027
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Samet Ceri
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Computational Methods for structural Health Monitoring of structures under high velocity impact
Expected end date: 2023
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Dr Tafara Makuni
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Digital Twin development for Aircraft structures: Aerodynamics and Structures interaction
Expected end date: 2027
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Yuhang Pan
Location
Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Machine learning methods for damage detection of complex composite structures
Expected end date: 2025
Former staff and students
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Dr Hamed Farokhi
Research Interrest:
- Nonlinear vibration and dynamic analysis of continuous systems
- Design and modelling of composite structures
- Nonlinear characteristics of micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS)
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Kwangkyu (Alex) Yoo
Location
Room 208, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Reliability and robustness optimisation of composite materials
Expected end date: 2021
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Amin Salehzadeh Nobari
Location
4th Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Hardware/software development for impact detection in aircraft structures
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Dr. Fangxin (Frank) Zou
Personal details
Dr. Fangxin (Frank) Zou Assistant Professor BEng (Sydney, Hons I), PhD(Imperial), AMRAeS, MInstPSend email34008066
Location
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Interdiscipliary division of Aeronautics and Aviation Engineering
Office: QR826
PhD thesis
A Boundary Element Method for Modelling Piezoelectric Transducer based Structural Health Monitoring
End date: 2015
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Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales
Personal details
Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales Research Computing Support OfficerSend email020 7594 5123
Location
E257 ACE Extension
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interrest:
- Numerical Analysis
- Optimisation
- Finite Element Modelling of Composite materials
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Dr Wongon Kim
Location
210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interest
Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin development for transformative air vehicles with IoT sensors
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Dr Saleh Salmanpour
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Plates under Operational Conditions using Piezoelectric Transducers
Graduated in 2017
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Cheng Xu
Location
2nd Floor City and guild building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Fibre Optic sensors for Structural Health Monitoring application
Expected end date: 2021
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Dr Fatemeh Mazaheri
Location
141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interrest:
- Design and analysis of composite structures
- Numerical modelling
- Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis
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Dr Mazdak Ghajari
Personal details
Dr Mazdak Ghajari Lecturer, Dyson School of Design Engineering (Former Research Associate)Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9236
Location
Dyson Building
South Kensington Campus
Research Interrest:
- Computational modelling of impact and damage in composite structures,
- SHM using the electromechanical impedance method.
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Dr Sina Asadi
Location
210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interrest:
- Design and analysis of composite structures
- Numerical modelling
- Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis
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Dr Ivano Benedetti
Personal details
Dr Ivano Benedetti Senior Lecturer, (Former Marie Curie IE fellow)Send email+39 091 238 96728
Location
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale e dei Materiali
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 8,
90128, Palermo, ItalyResearch Interrest:
- Computational mechanics,
- Micromechanics,
- Boundary element Method.
Affiliations: Marie Curie IE Fellow
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Dr Vincenzo Mallardo
Personal details
Dr Vincenzo Mallardo Associate Professor (Visiting Lecturer)Send email+39 0532 293621
Location
Department of Architecture
University of Ferrara (Italy)
Research Interrest:
- Identification and Optimization in Structural Health Monitoring
- Nonlinear Computational Mechanics
- Isogeometric Boundary Element Method
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Aldy Hami Seno
Location
210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interest
Structural Health Monitoring - Impact detection and identification
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Feifei Ren
Location
2nd Floor City and guild building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring
Expected end date: 2022
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Florian Lambinet
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Structural health monitoring of composite patch repair
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Dr Yanhong Chen
Location
Impact Engineering Laboratory
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
PhD thesis
Meshfree micromechanical modelling of the mechanical properties and responses of woven composites
End date: 2016
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Dr Dimitrios Bekas
Location
210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interrest:
- Development and employment of advanced ink-jet printed interdigital sensors and films
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Self-sensing and self-healing polymers and polymeric composites
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Hongmin Zhu
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimates for complex engineering systems.
Expected end date: 2022-2023
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hongmin-Zhu
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Dr Hailing Fu
Location
T.2.23, Wolfson Building
Research Interrest:
-St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,
- Low-power sensing systems,
- Kinetic energy harvesting.
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Ifan Dafydd
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Aerospace Structures: Laser Doppler Vibrometer
Graduated 2019
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Jun Li
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring for Plate Structures based on a Boundary Spectral Element Method
Expected end date: 2020
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Giorgio Geraci
Location
City and Guild Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Micro-cracking evolution in polycrystalline aggregates. A grain-boundary formulation
Graduated 2018
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Massimiliano Marrazzo
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Advanced computational methods for modelling of ultrasonic wave propagation
Expected end date: 2023
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Mengke Zhuang
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Reliability based analysis for Anisotropic plates with the Boundary Element Method
Expected end date: 2023
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Llewellyn Morse
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Reliability based analysis with the Boundary Element Method
Expected end date: 2020
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Nan Yue
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Structural health monitoring in composite materials, optimization and reliability analysis
Expected end date: 2019
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Dr Varindra Kumar
Location
141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Research Interrest:
- Electronics design and development of WSN mesh network with low power STM32 MCU integrated with piezo devices (active/passive acoustic sensors)
- Integration of energy harvesting, SHM and condition monitoring with inhouse electronics design
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Tianyi Feng
Location
Room 210, 2nd floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of thick composite plates
Expected end date: 2021
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Tongrui Liu
Location
1st floor, city and guilds building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Multiscale Data-Driven reduced order modeling for predicting the overall mechanical response of composite structures
Expected end date: 2023
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Valentin Buchinger
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Utilising SHM methodologies for in-situ manufacturing process monitoring of Composites
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Yingwu Li
Location
2nd Floor City and guild building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD thesis
Title: Application of Fibre Optic sensors in Structural Health Monitoring
Expected end date: 2022