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Academic Members
![]() Prof Kaspar Althoefer |
![]() Dr Eldad Avital |
![]() Dr Paul Balcombe |
![]() Dr Nikos Bempedelis |
![]() Dr Andrew Buchan |
![]() Prof James Busfield |
![]() Dr Neil Cagney |
![]() Dr Jun Chen |
![]() Dr Salvatore Grasso |
![]() Dr Mohammad Hassannezhad |
![]() Prof Henri Huijberts |
![]() Dr Ahmed Ismail |
![]() Dr Lorenzo Jamone |
![]() Prof Sergey Karabasov |
![]() Dr Haibao Liu |
![]() Dr Tao Liu |
![]() Dr Fariborz Motallebi |
![]() Dr Jens-Dominik Mueller |
![]() Dr Angadh Nanjangud |
![]() Dr Chinnapat Panwisawas |
![]() Dr Amin Paykani |
![]() Dr Kshitij Sabnis |
![]() Dr Hasan Shaheed |
![]() Dr Wei Tan |
![]() Prof Vassili Toropov |
![]() Dr Ranjan Vepa |
![]() Dr Xinwei Wang |
![]() Dr Pihua Wen |
![]() Dr Han Zhang |
![]() Dr Ketao Zhang |
![]() Dr Yunpeng Zhu |
Postdoc Research Associates
![]() Dr Hussain Ali Abid |
![]() Dr Abu Bakar Dawood |
![]() Dr Jinlong Fu |
![]() Dr Yingwei Hou |
![]() Mr William Amoako Kyei-ManuResearch Assistant |
![]() Dr Annabel Markesteijn |
![]() Dr Sara Naderizadeh |
![]() Dr Seyedmohammadhadi SadatiPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Jing ShiResearch Associate |
![]() Mr Thomas Thorn |
Professional Services
Current PhD Projects
Thesis Title | Supervisor |
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Design, Simulation and Control of an Integrated Wave and Tidal Energy Converter (WATEC) for optimum power transfer in shallow seas | Ranjan Vepa |
Models development for integrating membrane-based desalination with Pressure Retarded Osmosis as power generation | Hasan Shaheed |
Routing and scheduling movement at airports considering interdependence & intermediate holding. | Jun Chen |
Soft eversion robotic mechanism for the inspection of inaccessible spaces in the nuclear sector | Kaspar Althoefer |
Enhancing Battery Materials through Magnetic Field Alignment | Salvatore Grasso |
Development of Parallel Mechanisms Based Wearable Exoskeleton System for Lower Limb | Ketao Zhang |
Automated design of physical telecommunications networks | Jun Chen |
Design, Dynamics, and Control of a Space Manipulator | Angadh Nanjangud |
Structural optimization of the RAT rotor of a commercial AC | Eldad Avital |
A Miniature Low-cost Assistive Robotic System for Disabled and Elderly | Hasan Shaheed |
Multi-objective shortest path approach for routing and scheduling | Jun Chen |
Research - Multidisciplinary multifidelity stochastic topology optimisation Title - Level Set Multidisciplinary Topology Optimisation | Vassili Toropov |
Experimental study into the performance of vertical axis wind turbines | Neil Cagney |
Fluid-Structure Interaction Modelling for Smart Blades of Renewable Energy Turbines | Eldad Avital |
Associate Engineering--visiting PhD student | Wei Tan |
Investigating Pyroresistive Conductive Polymer Composites with Improved Thermal Stability | Han Zhang |
Optimal Distributed Propulsion Systems for All-Electric Airc | Ranjan Vepa |
Reducing emissions from gas supply chains | Paul Balcombe |
Lifetime predictions of Elastomers | James Busfield |
Nano-engineered Smart Coatings for Multifunctional Composites | Han Zhang |
Solar-powered VTOL Unmanned Aerial System Design and Control | Hasan Shaheed |
Ultralightweight Mechanical Metamaterials for Future Sustainable Air Transportation | Tao Liu |
Developing crashworthy and thermally conductive graphene related composite materials for electrical car battery assembly | Wei Tan |
Modelling and characterisation of cells in flows | Yi Sui |
Modeling and control of a robotic retractor for minimally invasive colorectal surgery | Hasan Shaheed |
Development of a Prosthetic Hand | Hasan Shaheed |
Rich Simulation Driven Design Optimisation | Vassili Toropov |
Pneumatic Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuators and Evolved Legged-Robots: Design, Modelling and Control | Ketao Zhang |
Optimal Design and Simulation of All Electric Aircraft | Ranjan Vepa |
Using control and machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of a soft eversion robots for underwater applications | Kaspar Althoefer |
Developing crashworthy cellular composites using machine learning | Wei Tan |
Trustable Public Transit through Integrated Multimodal Transit Networks and Trip Planning | Jun Chen |
Elucidation of Smear Wear Mechanism | James Busfield |
Carbon black reinforcement of tyre tread compounds | James Busfield |
Towards Intelligent Decision Support and Risk Assessment Tra | Xinwei Wang |
Numerical Modelling of Cancer cells in flows | Yi Sui |
Sustainable composites with easy repairing capabilities | Han Zhang |
Shape optimisation of winglets and wing appendages using CAD-based shape optimisation | Jens-Dominik Mueller |
Development of exoskeletons for elderly and stroke patient with motor tremor problem | Ketao Zhang |
modeling and algorithm design in transportation system | Jun Chen |
China Scholarship Council (CSC) | Ketao Zhang |
Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms for Time-dependent Multi-objective Multigraph Allied to Airport Automation | Jun Chen |
High-Fidelity Modelling and Validation of Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing. | Chinnapat Panwisawas |
Sensing and navigation for eversion robots operating pipe networks on nuclear sites | Kaspar Althoefer |
Thermal Management of Electric Traction Motors | Amin Paykani |
supersonic jet noise modeling | Sergey Karabasov |
Fluid-Structure Interaction of offshore aquaculture units and particle dynamics for disinfection control | Eldad Avital |
Inflatable legs for walking robots | Kaspar Althoefer |
Sustainable Future Footwear and Fashion Technology | James Busfield |
Prosthetic Hand Control with ML/AI MMG Signal Processing | Hasan Shaheed |
Filler Reinforcement of Elastomers | James Busfield |
Methane emissions in Europe: by how much can they be reduced and how do we get there? | Paul Balcombe |
Integrated Airport Airside Simulation, Control & Decision-making | Jun Chen |
From Bees to Robots: A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Modelling Shimmering Dynamics and Control of Swarm Systems | Ketao Zhang |
Optimisation of a Novel Polymeric Heart Valve | James Busfield |
Project Title Hydrodynamic printing of complex biomaterials | Ahmed Ismail |
Harnessing wind energy using a flapping aerofoil | Neil Cagney |
Optimisation of Tyre Wear Performance | James Busfield |
Framework for novel hybrid neutron transport ROMs | Andrew Buchan |
Effective Energy and Infrastructure Management through Simulation-based Optimisation | Jun Chen |
Self-healing Polyurethane Composites as Coating Materials for Wind Turbine Blades | Wei Tan |
Nanostructured Reinforcing Fillers to Enhance Physical and Mechanical Properties | James Busfield |
Graphene based transparent electrodes for tuneable optical devices | James Busfield |
Novel 3D Shapes for MDO of Fans and Compressors | Vassili Toropov |
Machine learning based prediction of combustion chemistry | Amin Paykani |
Innovative Tactile and Optical Sensing and Actuating Devices | James Busfield |
A Soft Hand Exoskeleton for Haptic Feedback | Kaspar Althoefer |
Disintegration of liquid fragments | Ahmed Ismail |
Multifunctional composites with integrated sensing and easy repairing capabilities | Han Zhang |
Controlling Droplet Impact and Penetration | Ahmed Ismail |
Scalable cellular composites for improving the crash energy absorption of transportation vehicles | Wei Tan |
Novel multirotor UAVs with reconfigurable/deployable structure | Ketao Zhang |
Energy efficient manufacturing of multifunctional fibre reinforced composites | Han Zhang |
SustainElectrode: 3D sustainable composite electrodes for next-generation energy storage devices | Wei Tan |
SEMS-PHD-507 (2023 SEMS CSC JC), SEMS-PHD-447 (2023 SEMS XW) | Jun Chen |
Intelligent Miniature Aerial Vehicles for Disaster Sensing and Monitoring in Extreme Environment | Hasan Shaheed |
The Finite Integration Method?Algorithm and its Applications in Solid Mechanics | Pihua Wen |
Welding of dissimilar materials | Chinnapat Panwisawas |
Past PhD Projects
Thesis Title | Supervisor | Year |
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Electric Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Materials | Federico Carpi, James Busfield | 2017 |
Design modelling and control of a miniature robotic system for surgical applications | M Hasan Shaheed, Ranjan Vepa | 2017 |
Predicting tyre compound wear. | James Busfield, Emiliano Bilotti | 2017 |
Development of materials and applications for electroactive composites | James Busfield, Federico Carpi | 2017 |
Model Predictive Controller design for an Efficient Hybrid Energy Wind/Solar/FC/BS Power System. | M Hasan Shaheed, Hua Sheng Wang | 2017 |
Experimental and Numerical Study of Surface Curvature Effects on the Performance of the Aerofoils Used in Small Wind Turbines | Theodosios Alexander, Eldad Avital | 2017 |
SmartNanoHeat - Self-regulating heating compounds | Emiliano Bilotti, James Busfield | 2017 |
Fatigue life prediction in aircraft tyres | James Busfield | 2017 |
Design, Modelling and Fabrication of a Robotic Retractor for Colorectal Surgery | Pihua Wen, Ettore Barbieri | 2017 |
Robust and Stable discrete adjoint solver development for shape optimisation of incompressible flows with industrial applications | Jens-Dominik Mueller, Eldad Avital | 2017 |
Optimal pump characteristic design for MCS devices suitable to different stages of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) | Theodosios Alexander, Fariborz Motallebi | 2017 |
High Performance Flow Control & Shape Optimisation Solver | Jens-Dominik Mueller, Sergey Karabasov | 2017 |
Motion of deformable capsules in complex flows | Yi Sui | 2017 |
Vassili Toropov | 2017 | |
Modelling, optimisation and control of osmotic energy extraction from natural salinity gradients using pressure retarded osmosis | M Hasan Shaheed, Theodosios Alexander | 2016 |
The Strain Dependent Dielectric Behaviour of Carbon Black Filled Natural Rubber | James Busfield, Emiliano Bilotti | 2016 |
Parallelization solutions for the YNANO Discontinua Simulations in 2D | Ante Munjiza, Pihua Wen | 2016 |
Numerical shape optimisation of flow around turbomachinery blades | Jens-Dominik Mueller, Andrew Wheeler | 2015 |
Efficient Methods for Robust Shape Optimisation for Crashworthiness | Fabian Duddeck, Jens-Dominik Mueller | 2015 |
Modelling and Interactional Control of a Multi-fingered Robotic Hand for Grasping and Manipulation | M Hasan Shaheed, Henri Huijberts | 2015 |
The development of a novel nanostructured silica filler for high friction and low rolling resistance rubber applications. | James Busfield | 2015 |
An investigation into Turbine Blade Tip Leakage Flows at High Speeds | Eldad Avital, Theodosios Alexander | 2015 |
Numerical Simulation of a Marine Current Turbine in Turbulent Flow | John Williams, Eldad Avital | 2015 |
A Study of the Fluid Dynamic Coupling Between LP Steam Turbine and its Exhaust Hood | Andrew Wheeler, Jens-Dominik Mueller | 2015 |
Numerical Simulation of a Marine Current Turbine in Turbulent Flow | John Williams, Eldad Avital | 2014 |
Failure of Rubber Components under Fatigue | James Busfield | 2014 |
The behaviour of hollow sphere filled rubber materials under strain | James Busfield | 2014 |
Sensitivity computation and shape optimisation in aerodynamics using the adjoint methodology and Automatic Differentiation | Jens Mueller | 2013 |
Tearing of rubber | James Busfield | 2013 |
The Impact and Deformation of Press-Fit Metal Acetablular Components | Julia Shelton, James Busfield | 2012 |
Computational and Experimental Study of Nasal Cavity Airflow Dynamics | Eldad Avital, Fariborz Motallebi | 2012 |
Numerical investigation of the effect of free-surface flow past submerged bluff and streamlined bodies | John Williams, Eldad Avital | 2012 |
Formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots: the virtual structure approach | Henri Huijberts | 2012 |
Natural Rubber/Organoclay Nanocomposites | James Busfield | 2012 |
Comeld Joints: Optimisation of Geometric Parameters of the Protrusions | Pihua Wen, Felicity Guild, Paul Hogg | 2011 |
Experimental Aeroacoustics Study on Jet Noise Reduction Using Tangential Air Injection | Eldad Avital, Chris Lawn, John Cater | 2011 |
Adaptive Filtering Applications to Satellite Navigation | Ranjan Vepa | 2010 |
Numerical Structure for Milling Proceses of Thin Wall Structures | Pihua Wen | 2010 |
Viscoelastic Properties of Elastomer under Complex Loading | James Busfield | 2010 |
Investigation and Modelling of Rubber Friction | James Busfield | 2010 |
Transmission power control in wireless networks | Henri Huijberts | 2010 |
Model Identification and Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Twin Rotor MIMO System | Hasan Shaheed | 2009 |
Carbon Black Filler Reinforcement of Elastomers | James Busfield | 2009 |