People
Academic and research staff
Ben Parslew – Group lead and Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Bill Crowther – Professor of Aerodynamic Engineering
Antonino Filippone – Reader in Aerospace Engineering
Alistair Revell – Reader in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Alejandro Macario Rojas – Research Associate
Kate Smith – Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Andy Weightman – Reader in Medical Mechatronics
Shan Zhong – Professor of Aerodynamics
PhD researchers
Ethan Bond
Drone operations in urban environments.
ethan.bond@manchester.ac.uk
Fernanda Bribiesca Contreras
Morphological adaptations of the musculoskeletal system of bird wings in relation to flight behaviour.
fernanda.bribiescacontreras@manchester.ac.uk
Damian Crosby
Robotics for hazardous environments: a mechatronic tail for dynamic compensation of a robotic arm applied to a quadruped robot.
damian.crosby@manchester.ac.uk
Kwok Cheung John Lo
Jumping robotics
kwokcheungjohn.lo@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Conor Marsh
Machine learning for improved operations and maintenance of offshore wind farms.
conor.marsh@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Maxime Savoie
Experimental and numerical investigation of flow control for refrigerated freight transport.
maxime.savoie@manchester.ac.uk
Xutong Zhang
Separation behavior and drag prediction for commercial aircraft based on K-ω SST IDDES model.
xutong.zhang@manchester.ac.uk
Opportunities
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Our research
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