Academic & Teaching Staff

Academic and Teaching staff in the Dyson School of Design Engineering are listed below. Follow the link on each name for more information about the person.

Maria Apud Bell

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Maria Apud Bell Senior Teaching Fellow, School Careers Officer
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Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

With a background in Biochemistry and Innovation Design Engineering, Maria is a design scientist, interested in bridging the gap between the creative and scientific world through the use of collaborative design methodologies.
Sheraz Arif

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Sheraz Arif Teaching Fellow
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Location

Dyson Building, South Kensington Campus
Dr Marco Aurisicchio

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Dr Marco Aurisicchio Reader in Engineering Design
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 7095

Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Marco Aurisicchio's current research activity focuses on using new design and manufacturing methods to develop complex systems in the healthcare, construction and nuclear sectors.
Dr Weston Baxter

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Dr Weston Baxter Senior Lecturer
Send email +44 (0)20 7594 6894

Location

Room 1M02, RCS1

Interests

Weston Baxter’s current research activity focuses on creating meaningful user experiences particularly as they relate to changing contexts in design.
Dr David Boyle

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Dr David Boyle Senior Lecturer
Send email(0)20 7594 8172

Location

Room 1M04, RCS1

Interests

David’s research centres around Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things. This covers a variety of topics, including: designing reliable, secure, energy efficient wireless communication systems and energy transfer.
Prof. Rafael Calvo

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Prof. Rafael Calvo Professor, Chair in Engineering Design, Director of Research
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Location

Room 1M03, RCS1

Interests

Rafael Calvo is interested in the design of systems that support wellbeing in areas of mental health, medicine and education, and the ethical challenges raised by new technologies.
Dr Michel-Alexandre Cardin

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Dr Michel-Alexandre Cardin Senior Lecturer, Examinations Officer
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Location

Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Michel-Alexandre’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of new computer aided methodologies to support the design of engineering systems under uncertainty, with applications in infrastructure and financial systems.
Prof. Peter Cheung

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Prof. Peter Cheung Head of School
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 6200

Location

Level 9, Room 910
Electrical & Electronic Engineering Building
South Kensington
London
SW7 2BT

Interests

Peter Cheung’s research focus is in digital reconfigurable systems; VLSI architecture; system reliability and embedded system design. He currently teaches the electronics modules in Years 1 and 2 in Design Engineering.
Prof. Peter Childs

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Prof. Peter Childs Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL)
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 7049

Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Peter Childs' general interests include: creativity; the application of creativity tools; mechanical and product design; robotics; rotating flow, temperature and its measurement, sustainable energy component, concept and system design.
Dr Samuel Cooper

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Dr Samuel Cooper Senior Lecturer, Admissions Tutor
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Location

Room 1M04A, RCS1

Interests

Sam Cooper’s research interests include the design and analysis of energy storage systems both at the microscale, as well as at the device level. He is also experience in the use of machine learning algorithms for the analysis of 3D image data.

For admissions, please email design.engineering@imperial.ac.uk .
Dr Pelin Demirel

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Dr Pelin Demirel Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Research Student Tutor
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Location

Room 1M06, RCS1

Interests

Pelin Demirel is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Her most recent research projects are motivated by investigating the potential of innovations and entrepreneurship for a more sustainable and inclusive society.
Prof. Sebastian Deterding

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Prof. Sebastian Deterding Chair in Design Engineering
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Location

Room 1M05, RCS1

Interests

Sebastian Deterding works on motivational design for well-being and behaviour change. He is particularly interested in translational research and design methods, human-AI co-creative design systems, theoretical and computational formalisations of motivational experiences, gamification and playful design, and motivational design for climate/energy transitions, health, and human-AI interactions.
Dr Elena Dieckmann

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Dr Elena Dieckmann Senior Teaching Fellow
Send email+44 7895302064

Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Elena is a teaching fellow for the Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) program. She has previously worked in the automotive industry in Germany, Russia and the Middle East. Her research is concerned with the development of fully biodegradable functional natural fibre textiles.
Dr Mark Friddin

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Dr Mark Friddin Imperial College Research Fellow
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Location

Level 3, Dyson Building
Imperial College London
South Kensington
London SW7 2AZ

Interests

Mark is an expert in microfluidics, optofluidics, rapid prototyping, ion channel electrophysiology and bottom-up synthetic biology. His core research aims are to develop new platform technologies for additive biomanufacturing.
Audrey Gaulard

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Audrey Gaulard Senior Teaching Fellow
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Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

As an Alumni from IDE and a background in Fashion Design, Audrey is a true Hybrid Designer working across various industries. She is simultaneously working as the co-founder of The Polyfloss Factory, developing a candy floss machine to recycle plastic, while being the Senior Designer of Random International, the art installation studio and finally a teaching Fellow in IDE
Dr Chandramohan George

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Dr Chandramohan George Lecturer
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Location

Room 1M04A, RCS1

Interests

Dr Chandramohan George is a lecturer leading the sub-theme “smart energy technologies and materials”. His Research Group is focused on materials design and manufacturing, solar batteries, soft batteries, beyond Li ion technologies and smart devices.
Dr Mazdak Ghajari

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Dr Mazdak Ghajari Senior Lecturer
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9236

Location

Room 1M05, RCS1

Interests

Mazdak Ghajari's research focuses on understanding biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and designing advanced protective devices.
Dr Stephen Green

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Dr Stephen Green Principal Teaching Fellow, Academic Tutor
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Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Stephen Green's interests include the evolving methods, methodologies and professional practice of design; in particular with open and collaborative design and innovation, the understanding of design impact, application of branding, design for external environments and product service systems.
Dr Kamyar Hazeri

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Dr Kamyar Hazeri Teaching Fellow
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Location

Dyson Building, Level 1

Affiliations

Kamyar Hazeri's interests focus on Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Aerodynamics, Automotive and Product Design, as well as the assessment of product creativity, sustainability, and building energy performance.
Dr Petar Kormushev

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Dr Petar Kormushev Senior Lecturer
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9235

Location

Room 1M07, RCS1

Interests

Petar Kormushev's research interests include robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His main research focus is on robot learning algorithms, especially reinforcement learning for intelligent robot behaviour.
Olga Kravchenko

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Olga Kravchenko Teaching Fellow
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Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Olga is a Teaching Fellow at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. She is a Product Designer and a Computational Designer specializing in computational intelligence applications for product design.
Dr Nan Li

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Dr Nan Li Senior Lecturer
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Location

Room 1M03, RCS1

Interests

Nan Li’s research addresses one of the major challenges facing the transportation industry world-wide: the development of breakthrough technologies to manufacture and design high-performance lightweight vehicles for a more environmentally-friendly footprint.
Prof. Andrew McPherson

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Prof. Andrew McPherson Chair in Design Engineering and Music
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Location

Room 301B, Dyson Building, Level 3

Affiliations

Andrew McPherson's research on digital musical instrument design draws on embedded hardware, human-computer interaction, embodied cognition, and science and technology studies to create interactive systems and examine the values embedded into new technologies.
Dr Celine Mougenot

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Dr Celine Mougenot Senior Lecturer
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Location

Room 1M06, RCS1

Interests

Céline Mougenot specializes in Design Research. Her aim is to develop an understanding of “designing”, with a focus on creativity and collaboration.
Prof. Nick Munro

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Prof. Nick Munro Visiting Professor
Send email+44 (0) 7803 016527

Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Nick Munro is interested in the design of products which deliver sustainability through elegance in form, efficiency in function and relevance in purpose. This applies to items ranging from new technology cutlery for airlines to innovative air quality monitoring systems for hospitals, hotels and commercial buildings.
Dr Connor Myant

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Dr Connor Myant Senior Lecturer
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9893

Location

Room 1M05, RCS1

Interests

Connor Myant works on developing design methodologies specific to Additive Manufacturing, as well as developing novel 3D printing processes.
Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara

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Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara Professor in Robotics
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Location

Room 1M07, RCS1

Interests

Thrishantha's research in controllable stiffness robots tries to understand how physical circuits in the body and environment contribute to solve computational problems to do with efficient survival in unstructured environments.
Dr Freddie Page

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Dr Freddie Page Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow
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Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Freddie's role is the curriculum review of the MEng, so that our students get the most out of our course, becoming competitive graduates in a changing jobs market.
He has interests in: computer graphics, web applications and interfaces, machine learning, metamaterials, and interactive learning and teaching methods.
Dr Lorenzo Picinali

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Dr Lorenzo Picinali Reader in Audio Experience Design
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 8158

Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Lorenzo Picinali's work focuses on 3D binaural sound rendering, interactive applications for the blind, audiology and audiometric techniques, hearing aids technology, and audio and haptic interaction.
Prof. Pierre Pinson

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Prof. Pierre Pinson Professor, Chair of data-centric design engineering
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Location

Room 1M04, RCS1

Interests

Pierre is interested in finding ways to generate optimal value for society and various stakeholders from data. This translates to a methodological focus on analytics, forecasting, optimization and game theory, mainly. On the applied side, he looks at energy and sustainability, weather-sensitive industries, business analytics, logistics and retail, etc.
Dr Talya Porat

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Dr Talya Porat Senior Lecturer, Senior Tutor
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Location

Room 1M06, RCS1

Interests

Talya Porat's research is in the fields of human factors, human-computer interaction, usability and cognitive engineering. She is particularly interested in decision-making processes and how to design and evaluate effective interactive healthcare interventions to improve patient outcomes and reduce medical errors.
Prof. Robert Shorten

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Prof. Robert Shorten Professor of Cyber Physical Systems Design, Deputy Head of Department
Send email+44 7863879679

Location

Dyson School of Design Engineering
Level 3, Dyson Building
Imperial College London
South Kensington
London SW7 2AZ

Interests

Hybrid Dynamical Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems; Sharing Economy; and Smart Mobility/Cities
Dr Nicolas Rojas

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Dr Nicolas Rojas Senior Lecturer
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Location

Room 1M07, RCS1

Interests

Nicolas' research focuses on the analysis, design, and implementation of novel, divergent robotic systems for manipulation and grasping under diversity and uncertainty, with the long-term goal of surpassing the manipulation capabilities observed in humans and other animals in all conditions.
Dr Shayan Sharifi

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Dr Shayan Sharifi Principal Teaching Fellow, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9619

Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Shayan is working on developing technologies to remove plastics from rivers and oceans. The objective of his work is to radically re-think the current methods and address the common challenges such as sorting, wear, and energy dissipation.
Dr Leila Sheldrick

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Dr Leila Sheldrick Lecturer
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9762

Location

Room 1M02, RCS1

Interests

Leila Sheldrick’s research explores the future of design, and aims to identify how to realise sustainable systems of consumption and production.
Charlotte Slingsby

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Charlotte Slingsby Senior Teaching Fellow
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Location

Level 1, Dyson Building
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB

Interests

Charlotte Slingsby is passionate about using design as a tool for transformation within engineering. Her personal work ranges from renewable energy solutions to cybersecurity tools with a keen interest in system and user centred design.
Dr Rebecca Stewart

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Dr Rebecca Stewart Lecturer
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Location

Room 1M02, RCS1

Interests

Rebecca Stewart’s research interests are in wearable technology with a focus on binaural audio and textile interfaces. She is also investigating methods for enabling research innovations to be more accessible to applications designers.
Dr Nejra van Zalk

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Dr Nejra van Zalk Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Factors
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Location

Room 1M04, RCS1

Interests

Nejra van Zalk leads the Design Psychology Lab , which focuses on understanding psychological mechanisms that govern human behaviour, emotions, and decision-making processes related to designing products, services, and behavioural interventions that benefit mental health.
Dr Billy Wu

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Dr Billy Wu Senior Lecturer, Post Graduate Research Tutor
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 6385

Location

Room 1M04A, RCS1

Interests

Billy Wu works on improving and developing electrochemical devices (batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitor) as well as manufacturing processes (3D printing, electrospinning).