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The Steel Structures Research Group is led by Professor Leroy Gardner. Leroy is Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of both the Institutions of Civil (FICE) and Structural (FIStructE) Engineers. He is engaged in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, specialist advisory work and leading an active steel structures research group.

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Research Associates


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	Dr Xi Guo Started 2023 Send email
	Dr Cheng Huang Started Dec 2022 Send email
	Dr Pinelopi Kyvelou Started Mar 2017 Send email
	Dr Xin Meng Started 2020 Send email
	Dr Fiona Walport Started Mar 2020, Imperial College Research Fellow 2022-2026 Send email
	Dr Ruizhi Zhang Started Aug 2022 Send email
Research Associates

Current PhD Researchers in the Steel Structures Group


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	Aya Ahmed Started Oct 2019 Simulation and analysis of large-scale portal frames Send email
	Hou Un Chan Started Jun 2021 Send email
	Ruikai Dai Started Dec 2022 Send email
	Wenxuan Hong Started Dec 2022 Send email
	Tong Hu Started Mar 2023 Send email
	Zeqi Liang Started Oct 2022 Send email
	Zexu Shao Started 2022 Send email
	Harry Slack Started Oct 2019 Send email
	Athina Spinasa Started Sept 2022 Send email
	Ben Weber Started Dec 2020 Send email
	Jiachi Yang Started Feb 2022 Send email
	Zichang Yang Started Oct 2020 Send email
	Minze Zhang Started Jan 2022 Send email
	Xiaobo Zhu Started Sept 2022 Send email
Current PhD Researchers

Former PhD Researchers in the Steel Structures Group


Alumni	Current Position
Dr Mahmud Ashraf Completed 2006	Associate Professor, Deaken University
Dr Kee Ng Completed 2007	CEO Assistant, Mahkota Sentosa Utama, Indonesia
Dr Rachel Cruise Completed 2007	Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University
Dr Tak-Ming Chan Completed 2007	Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr Alan Nip Completed 2008	Project Manager, Hong Kong Government
Dr Ada Law Completed 2010	Teaching Fellow, The University of Hong Kong
Dr Waleed Salih Completed 2010	University of Khartoum
Dr Marios Theofanous Completed 2010	Lecturer, University of Birmingham
Dr Facheng Wang Completed 2011	Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
Dr Finian McCann Completed 2012	Senior Lecturer, London Southbank University
Dr Ade Osofero Completed 2012	Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Dr Najib Saliba Completed 2012	Associate Professor, University of Balamand
Dr Sheida Afshan Completed 2013	Lecturer, University of Southampton
Dr Andrew Liew Completed 2014	Lecturer, Sheffield University
Dr Chi Hui Completed 2014	Structural Engineer, WSP
Dr Andrew Foster Completed 2014	Lecturer, University of Manchester
Dr May Su Completed 2014	Lecturer, University of Manchester
Dr Jonathan Gosaye Completed 2015	Structural Engineer, WSP
Dr Merih Kucukler Completed 2015	Lecturer, University of Warwick
Dr Ou Zhao Completed 2015	Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Dr Elizabeth Liu Completed 2016	Global Pricing Strategy Analyst, Farfetch
Dr Jie Wang Completed 2016	Lecturer, University of Bath
Dr Wei Qiu Completed 2017	Senior Manager, China Construction Engineering
Dr Craig Buchanan Completed 2017	Lecturer, Imperial College London
Dr Pinelopi Kyvelou Completed 2017	Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Dr Yidu Bu Completed 2018	Lecturer, University of Surrey
Dr Xiang Yun Completed 2018	Lecturer, University of Sheffield
Dr Gabriel Santos Completed 2019	Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire
Dr Nicolas Hadjipantelis Completed 2019	Lecturer, University of Cyprus
Dr Andreas Fieber Completed 2019	Consultant/Structural Engineer, COWI
Dr Nadiah Saari Completed 2020	Academic, University Technology MARA, Malaysia
Dr Fiona Walport Completed 2020	Imperial College Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Dr Xin Meng Completed 2020	Research Associate, Imperial College London
Dr Kaidong Wu Completed 2020	Associate Professor, Hohai University
Dr Zhe Xing Completed 2020	Associate Professor, Hohai University
Dr Constantinos Kyprianou Completed 2021	Principal Engineer, The Steel Construction Institute
Dr Chunyan Quan Completed 2021	Research Associate, University of Warwick
Dr Behnam Behzadi Sofiani Completed 2021	Structural Engineer, Atkins
Dr Ruizhi Zhang Completed 2022	Research Associate, Imperial College London
Dr Cheng Huang Completed 2022	Research Associate, Imperial College London
Dr Luke Lapira Completed 2022	Research Associate, University College London
Dr Yufei Zhu Completed 2023
Dr Xi Guo Completed 2023	Research Associate, Imperial College London
Former PhD Researchers in the Steel Structures Group (Last updated 30/05/23)