People

Academic staff

Mostafa Nabawy – Group co-ordinator and Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering

Andrea Cioncolini – Senior Lecturer in Thermal Hydraulics

Bill Crowther – Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Alessandro De Rosis – Lecturer in Virtual Engineering

Lee Margetts – Senior Lecturer in Structural Integrity

Lei Ren – Reader in Biomechanics and Biorobotics

Alistair Revell – Reader in Computational Fluid Dynamics 

Research associates

Abdelmagid Emad Abdelmagid Ali
Development of a versatile liquid metal testing facility for lead-cooled fast reactor technology
abdelmagid.emadabdelmagidali@manchester.ac.uk

Joseph O’Connor
Numerical simulations of Piezo/Solar inverted flags for energy harvesting applications
joseph.oconnor@manchester.ac.uk

Jorge Silva Leon (alumni)
Experimental demonstrations of Piezo/Solar inverted flags for energy harvesting applications

Girupakaran Sivalingam (alumni)
Design, build and test of insect-scale robots

Postgraduate researchers

Ahmad Alsayed
Micro-robots for confined spaces inspection and monitoring
ahmad.alsayed@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Paul Broadley
Insect-like flapping flight aerodynamics
paul.broadley@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Ahmed Mohamed
Energy saving and management in fluid power systems
ahmed.mohamed-2@manchester.ac.uk

Wenyu Mao
Axial flow induced vibrations for nuclear reactor applications
wenyu.mao@manchester.ac.uk 

Anas Pauzi
Axial flow induced vibrations for nuclear reactor applications
anas.muhamadpauzi@manchester.ac.uk

Justyna Salachna
Flow-induced vibration in rods and rod bundles
justyna.salachna@manchester.ac.uk

Thomas Shearwood
Novel control allocation methods for yaw control of tailless aircraft using lift effectors
thomas.shearwood@manchester.ac.uk

Jie Wang
Topological, geometrical and operational effects on vibration energy harvesters
jie.wang-2@ manchester.ac.uk

Kaidong Yang
Inverted flags for energy harvesting applications
kaidong.yang@manchester.ac.uk