People

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
Research interest
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Composite materials
- Computational fracture and damage mechanics
- Boundary Element Method
- Structural integrity
Location
E459 ACE Extension
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ London, UK
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Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei
Personal details
Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei Reader in structural IntegritySend email+44 (0)20 7594 5116
Research interest
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Damage detection and characterization
- Optimisation
- Reliabiilty and risk analysis
- Numerical analysis
Location
E356 ACE Extension
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Wongon Kim
Research Interest
Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin development for transformative air vehicles with IoT sensors
Location
210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Ali Nokhbatolfoghahaei
Research Interest
Structural Health Monitoring, numerical modelling of guided waves, damage detection and characterisation
Location
210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Francisco Rodrigues
PhD thesis
Title: Structural health monitoring of complex composite structures
Expected end date: 2023
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
PhD Students
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Amin Salehzadeh Nobari
PhD thesis
Hardware/software development for impact detection in aircraft structures
Location
4th Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dong Xiao
PhD thesis
Title: Uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis of composite structures
Expected end date: 2025
Location
Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Fanzeng Guo
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures
Expected end date: 2025
Location
Room 208, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Fatih Dagsever
PhD thesis
Title: Industry 4.0 for structural intergirty assessment of composite structures
Expected end date: 2024
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Feifei Ren
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring
Expected end date: 2022
Location
2nd Floor City and guild building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Haolin Li
PhD thesis
Title: Optimization of Composite Structures
Expected end date: 2024
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Hongmin Zhu
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
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Massimiliano Marrazzo
PhD thesis
Title: Advanced computational methods for modelling of ultrasonic wave propagation
Expected end date: 2023
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Mengke Zhuang
PhD thesis
Title: Reliability based analysis for Anisotropic plates with the Boundary Element Method
Expected end date: 2023
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Samet Ceri
PhD thesis
Title: Computational Methods for structural Health Monitoring of structures under high velocity impact
Expected end date: 2023
Location
1st Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Tafara Makuni
PhD thesis
Title: Digital Twin development for Aircraft structures: Aerodynamics and Structures interaction
Expected end date: 2027
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Tongrui Liu
PhD thesis
Title: Multiscale Data-Driven reduced order modeling for predicting the overall mechanical response of composite structures
Expected end date: 2023
Location
1st floor, city and guilds building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Yingwu Li
PhD thesis
Title: Application of Fibre Optic sensors in Structural Health Monitoring
Expected end date: 2022
Location
2nd Floor City and guild building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Yuhang Pan
PhD thesis
Title: Machine learning methods for damage detection of complex composite structures
Expected end date: 2025
Location
Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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
PhD thesis
Title: Reliability and robustness optimisation of composite materials
Expected end date: 2021
Location
Room 208, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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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
PhD thesis
A Boundary Element Method for Modelling Piezoelectric Transducer based Structural Health Monitoring
End date: 2015
Location
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Interdiscipliary division of Aeronautics and Aviation Engineering
Office: QR826
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Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales
Personal details
Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales Research Computing Support OfficerSend email020 7594 5123
Research Interrest:
- Numerical Analysis
- Optimisation
- Finite Element Modelling of Composite materials
Location
E257 ACE Extension
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
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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
PhD thesis
Title: Fibre Optic sensors for Structural Health Monitoring application
Expected end date: 2021
Location
2nd Floor City and guild building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Fatemeh Mazaheri
Research Interrest:
- Design and analysis of composite structures
- Numerical modelling
- Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis
Location
141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
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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
Research Interrest:
- Computational modelling of impact and damage in composite structures,
- SHM using the electromechanical impedance method.
Location
Dyson Building
South Kensington Campus
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Dr Sina Asadi
Research Interrest:
- Design and analysis of composite structures
- Numerical modelling
- Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis
Location
210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Ilias Giannakeas
Research Interrest:
-St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,
- Numerical analysis
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Location
141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
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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
Research Interrest:
- Computational mechanics,
- Micromechanics,
- Boundary element Method.
Affiliations: Marie Curie IE Fellow
Location
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale e dei Materiali
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 8,
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Dr Vincenzo Mallardo
Personal details
Dr Vincenzo Mallardo Associate Professor (Visiting Lecturer)Send email+39 0532 293621
Research Interrest:
- Identification and Optimization in Structural Health Monitoring
- Nonlinear Computational Mechanics
- Isogeometric Boundary Element Method
Location
Department of Architecture
University of Ferrara (Italy)
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Aldy Hami Seno
Research Interest
Structural Health Monitoring - Impact detection and identification
Location
210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Florian Lambinet
PhD thesis
Structural health monitoring of composite patch repair
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Yanhong Chen
PhD thesis
Meshfree micromechanical modelling of the mechanical properties and responses of woven composites
End date: 2016
Location
Impact Engineering Laboratory
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
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Dr Dimitrios Bekas
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
Location
210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Hailing Fu
Research Interrest:
-St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,
- Low-power sensing systems,
- Kinetic energy harvesting.
Location
T.2.23, Wolfson Building
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Ifan Dafydd
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Aerospace Structures: Laser Doppler Vibrometer
Graduated 2019
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Jun Li
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring for Plate Structures based on a Boundary Spectral Element Method
Expected end date: 2020
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Giorgio Geraci
PhD thesis
Title: Micro-cracking evolution in polycrystalline aggregates. A grain-boundary formulation
Graduated 2018
Location
City and Guild Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Llewellyn Morse
PhD thesis
Title: Reliability based analysis with the Boundary Element Method
Expected end date: 2020
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Nan Yue
PhD thesis
Title: Structural health monitoring in composite materials, optimization and reliability analysis
Expected end date: 2019
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Dr Varindra Kumar
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
Location
141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,
South Kensington Campus
AW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Tianyi Feng
PhD thesis
Title: Structural Health Monitoring of thick composite plates
Expected end date: 2021
Location
Room 210, 2nd floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK
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Valentin Buchinger
PhD thesis
Utilising SHM methodologies for in-situ manufacturing process monitoring of Composites
Location
2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ, London, UK