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

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