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College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
- College Centre
College Deans
- Professor Stephen Garrett (Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean)
- Professor Tony Clark (Deputy Dean for Education)
- Professor Kate Sugden (Deputy Dean for International and Enterprise)
- Professor Tony Dodd (Deputy Dean for Research)
- Dr Aniko Ekart (Director of Research Degree Programmes)
- Dr Goudarz Poursharif (Associate Dean for Education)
- Dr Sukhvinder Phull (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programmes)
- Dr Sylvia Wong (Associate Dean for International)
- Mr Thomas Harvey-Ball (Associate Dean Postgraduate Taught Programmes)
- Dr Timothy Whitehead – (Associate Dean for Impact (Education))
- Dr Lucy Bastin (Associate Dean for Impact (Digital))
- Ms Nadia Bareford (Executive Assistant to Professor Stephen Garrett)
- Mrs Zhenya Parnell (PA to Deputy Dean)
- Mrs Julia Kelleher (Receptionist)
Strategy and Administration
- Mrs Aman Gill-Knobbs (Director of Operations)
- Mrs Donna Wheat (Quality Officer)
- Mr Tejinder Malhi (College Finance Business Partner)
- Ms Joanne Elsmore (College HR Business Partner)
- Ms Elizabeth (Libby) Comyn (Marketing Officer)
- Ms Purbani Chakrabarti (Strategic Funding Manager)
- Ms Emma Tronson (Marketing Manager)
- Ms Rani Johal (Digital Content Officer)
Taught Programmes Team
- Miss Victoria Bond (Taught Programmes Team Leader)
- Mrs Caroline O'Hara (Foundation Year Programme Administrator)
- Ms Margaret Ebanks (Taught Programmes Administrator)
- Mrs Carol Browne (Taught Programmes Administrator)
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mr Michael Northwood (Taught Programmes Administrator)
- Miss Helen Gilfoyle (Assessment Officer)
- Mr Fred Gallagher (Assessment Officer)
- Ms Shelley Smith (Taught Programmes Administrator)
- Ms Wing Shan Fung (Programme Administrator)
- Mr Andrew Thompson (Taught Programmes Administrator)
Exams and Assessments Team
- Mrs Diane Markley (Exams and Assessments Team Leader)
- Mr Fred Gallagher (Assessment Officer)
- Miss Helen Gilfoyle (Assessment Officer)
- Ms Monique Gill (Assessment Officer)
Academic Support Team
- Mrs Ranjit Judge (Academic Support Team Leader)
- Mrs Kanchan Patel (Academic Support Administrator - CS/EEE/Maths)
- Mrs Jo Reid (Academic Support Administrator - AFC/APEC/MBDE)
- Mrs Charmaine Senior (Academic Support Administrator - CE/CEAC/ESSCM)
Research Support Team
- Dr Emma Estevez (Research Support Team Leader)
- Mr Craig Bean (Research Support Administrator)
- Mr John Leigh (Research Project Administrator)
- Ms Jenneka Pope (Research Support Administrator)
Student Engagement Team
- Ms Boohema Boohene (Student Engagement Officer)
- Mrs Sonia Verma (Student Engagement Assistant)
Aston Professional Engineering Centre (APEC) Team
- Mrs Carol Winder (Professional Engineering Manager)
- Ms Kristiana Atanasova (International Programmes Officer)
- Mr Adhiraj Banerjee (Programmes Officer)
- Ms Olive Burke (STEM Up Project Officer)
- Ms Sarah Craney (Programmes Officer)
- Mr Luke Ip (Programmes Officer)
- Mr Gregg Smith (Programmes Officer)
School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies
Head of School - Professor Damien Foster
- Software Engineering and Cybersecurity
Department Members
- Professor Jo Lumsden (Head of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity, Professor, Director of the Aston Interactive Media (AIM) Lab)
- Mr Julien Barney (Business Manager)
- Dr Anthony (Tony) Beaumont (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Roy Benson (Teaching Fellow)
- Ms Sibylle Dreischer (Programme Support Officer)
- Mr Vangelis Fafoutis (Laboratory Tutor)
- Dr Kaniz Fatema (Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Kwame Frimpong-Manso (Programme Support Officer)
- Dr Marwa Gadala (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Paul Grace (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Lilit Hakobyan (Lecturer)
- Dr Amal Htait (Lecturer)
- Dr Vitor Jesus (Lecturer)
- Dr Michal Konecny (Visiting Academic Fellow)
- Dr Richard Lee (Teaching Fellow, Deputy Programme Director)
- Dr Peter Lewis (Visiting Academic Fellow)
- Dr Umar Manzoor (Lecturer)
- Dr Ricardo Melo Czekster (Lecturer)
- Dr Nitin Naik (Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity)
- Dr Nicholas Powell (Teaching Fellow, Undergraduate Programme Director)
- Mr Ebadur Liton Rahman (Software Developer)
- Mrs Megan Robertson (E-Learning Specialist)
- Mrs Debaleena Roy (Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Agawaid Saleen (Laboratory Tutor)
- Ms Abinaya Sowriraghavan (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Hai Wang (Lecturer)
- Dr Hongxia (Helen) Wang (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Sylvia Wong (Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean International)
Administration Team
- Mrs Carol Browne (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Kanchan Patel (Academic Support Administrator
Postgraduate Research Students
- Ms Chloé Ann Alsop (Research Student)
- Mr Renato Barros Arantes (Research Student)
- Mr Jomar Charles Alcantara (Research Student)
- Mr John Connor Rego Hamilton (Research Student)
- Ms Sanobar Dar (Research Student)
- Mr Edward William Easton (Research Student)
- Mr Dirichukwu Goodluck Oguzie (Research Student)
- Mr Larry Godwin (Research Student)
- Mr Vincent Gbouna Zakka (Research Student)
- Mr Gatis Jurkans (Research Student)
- Mrs Yingyi Kuang (Research Student)
- Mr Juan Marcelo Parra (Research Student)
- Mr Michael George Pritchard (Research Student)
- Mr Owen James Reynolds (Research Student)
- Mr Daniel Rodriguez Criado (Research Student)
- Mr Kieran Saunders (Research Student)
- Miss Anna Stefani (Research Student)
- Mr Jacob Sharp (Research Student)
- Miss Jodie Sylvia May Ashford (Research Student)
- Mr Muhammad Zaman (Research Student)
- Electronics and Computer Engineering
Department Members
- Dr Paul Harper (Head of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Reader)
- Dr Christian Broadway (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Maurizio Catucci (Senior Teaching Fellow, Programme Director
- Dr Hani Kbashi (Lecturer)
- Dr Petro Lutsyk (Lecturer)
- Professor Richard Martin (Deputy Associate Dean Research)
- Dr Richard Nock (Lecturer)
- Dr Ian Phillips (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Raja Farah Naz Safdar (Post Doctoral Researcher)
- Dr Alex Rozhin (Senior Lecturer – Nanoscience Technology Research)
- Professor Jaspal Sagoo (Visiting Professor)
- Dr Sayah O. Saied (Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Baogui Shi (Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Zuoyin Tang (Lecturer, Director of MSc Programmes)
- Dr Thomas Thatapudi (Lecturer)
- Dr John Williams (Reader)
Administration Team
- Ms Margaret Ebanks (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Kanchan Patel (Academic Support Administrator)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Mr Mahmood Abu Romoh
- Mr Diego Argüello Ron (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Mike Anderson (Research Student)
- Rana Ahmad Bilal Khalid (Research Student)
- Ms Arooj (Research Student, Early Career Researcher)
- Miss Mariia Bastamova (Research Student)
- Ms Aisha Bibi (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Stepan Bogdanov (Research Student)
- Juan Ignacio Cadiz Miranda (Research Student)
- Mr Aleksandr Donodin (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Pedro Freire (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Ms Gabriella Gardosi (Research Student)
- Mr Nasir Garba Bello (Research Student)
- Miss Diana Galiakhmetova (Research Student)
- Mr Robert Harrison (Research Student)
- Mr Pratim Hazarika (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Mohammad Hosseini (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Long Hoang Nguyen (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Miss Karina Nurlybayeva (Research Student)
- Mr Vladislav Neskorniuk (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Ms Paulami Ray (Research Student)
- Mr Alberto Rodríguez Cuevas (Research Student, Early Stage Researcher in European Training Network Doctorate - Project MEFISTA)
- Mr Mala Sadik (Research Student)
- Ms Namita Sahoo (Research Student)
- Mr Egor Sedov (Research Student)
- Mr Roman Svoma (Research Student)
- Mr Victor Vassiliev (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Said Salehi Zanjani (Research Student)
- Applied AI and Robotics
Department Members
- Professor Damien Foster (Head of Computer Science & Digital Technologies, Interim Head of Applied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics)
- Dr Roberto Alamino (Lecturer)
- Dr Chloe Barnes (Lecturer)
- Dr Lucy Bastin (Reader)
- Dr Ulysses Bernardet (Lecturer)
- Dr James Borg (Lecturer)
- Dr Christopher Buckingham (Reader – Research Focused in Computer Science)
- Dr Felipe Campelo (Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department)
- Miss Lucy Carswell (Industry Club Associate)
- Dr Furkan Çengel (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Researcher – KTP Associate)
- Dr Maria Chli (Reader, Industrial Partnership Fellow)
- Dr Zhuangzhuang Dai (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Aniko Ekart (Professor)
- Mr Abimbola Falodu (KTP Associate)
- Dr Farzaneh Farhadi (Lecturer)
- Dr Alexandros Giagkos (Lecturer)
- Dr Harry Goldingay (Senior Lecturer, Work-Based Undergraduate Programme Director)
- Dr Mohammed Hadi (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Hassan Aqeel Khan (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Kriukov Vitalii (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Vinay Kulkarni (Visiting Professorial Fellow)
- Dr Victoria Lush (Research Associate)
- Dr Shereen Fouad (Lecturer)
- Dr Luis Manso (Lecturer)
- Mr Mehdi Moghadam (KTP Associate)
- Dr Alina Patelli (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lecturer)
- Dr Martin Rudorfer (Lecturer)
- Dr Adam Stanton (Lecturer)
- Dr Adarsh Viju Kumar (Research Assistant)
- Dr Elizabeth Wanner (Reader)
- Dr Philip Weber (Lecturer)
- Dr Joe Yuen (Teaching Fellow)
- Applied Mathematics and Data Science
Department Members
- Professor Helen Higson OBE (Head of Applied Mathematics and Data Science)
- Dr Felippe Alves Pereira (Research Associate)
- Dr Sulthana Begum (Teaching Associate)
- Mr Matthew Bickley (Teaching Assistant)
- Miss Denise Bledea (Placement Student)
- Dr Mark Butler (Teaching Associate)
- Dr Amit K Chattopadhyay (Reader)
- Dr Rose Davies (Research Fellow)
- Dr Adam Dent (Teaching Assistant)
- Dr Liam Escott (Research Fellow)
- Dr Volodymyr Farafonov (Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Harry Flynn (Lecturer)
- Dr Sotos Generalis (Reader, Programme Director for MSc Data Analytics)
- Dr Paul Griffiths (PGR Programme Director, Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Simon Hartley (Visiting Fellow)
- Mr Thomas Harvey-Ball (Deputy Head of Department, Associate Dean for PGT)
- Dr Sudhir Jain (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Jason Laurie (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Adam Lowe (Lecturer)
- Dr Jort Van Mourik (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Dmitry Nerukh (Senior Lecturer)
- Mr Ho Fai Po (Research Associate)
- Dr Hina Qaisar (Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Laura Rebollo-Neira (Lecturer)
- Professor David Saad (Professor)
- Dr Mansoor Sheikh (Research Associate)
- Dr Jonathan Skipp (Research Associate)
- Ms Roisin Sorohan (RISE Project Manager)
- Dr Cedric Spire (Teaching Associate)
- Professor Sharon Stephen (Visiting Professorial Fellow)
- Dr Philip Trevelyan (Lecturer, Placement Co-ordinator)
- Dr Jort Van Mourik (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Gareth Woods (UG Programme Director, Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Igor V Yurkevich (Reader)
Administration Team
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mr Michael Northwood (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Kanchan Patel (Academic Support Administrator)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Mr Jason Ferguson (Research Student)
- Mr Niall Hanevy (Research Student)
- Mr Karl Lydon (Research Student)
- Mr Farhan Mohammad Hasan (Research Student)
- Ms Ewa Magdalena Grela (Research Student)
- Mr Monsuru Taiye Mustapha (Research Student)
- Mr Josiah Shem-Davis (Research Student)
- Miss Aleena Urooj (Research Student)
School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Head of School - Professor Paul Topham
- Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department Members
- Dr Jiawei Wang (Head of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Reader)
- Dr Amirpiran Amiri (Senior Lecturer)
- Mr David Aveston (Chemical Services Technician)
- Dr Scott William Banks (Lecturer)
- Dr Paula Blanco Sanchez (Senior Lecturer)
- Miss Megan Bolas (Apprentice Lab Technician)
- Dr Yi Cheng (MSCA Fellow)
- Dr Katie Chong (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Matthew Derry (Lecturer)
- Dr Panos Doss (Senior Teaching Fellow, Programme Director MSc Sustainable Engineering)
- Dr Rob Evans ((Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Deputy Head of Department - Chemistry)
- Dr Alfred Fernandez-Castane (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Val Franklin (Contract Research Fellow)
- Dr Gareth Griffiths (Lecturer)
- Professor Sarah Hainsworth (Honorary Professor)
- Mr James Hammerton (Laboratory Technician)
- Mr William Joseph Ashley Homer (Research Assistant)
- Dr Amit Kumar Sarkar (MSCA Research Fellow)
- Dr Fiona Lydon (Research Fellow)
- Dr Anisa Mahomed (Lecturer)
- Dr Aisling Mann (Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Marta Granollers Mesa (Deputy Head of Department for Operations & Administrative Affairs, Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Vesna Najdanovic (Senior Lecturer)
- Ms Pauline Notley (Laboratory Technician)
- Dr Daniel Jozef Nowakowski (Lecturer / EBRI Laboratories Manager)
- Dr Jude Onwudili (Reader)
- Dr Amin Osatiashtiani (Lecturer)
- Dr Sukhvinder (Suki) Phull (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Mrs Hilary Price (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Andrew Sutherland (Reader)
- Dr Paul Tack (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Eirini Theodosiou (Senior Lecturer)
- Professor Brian Tighe (Professor)
- Professor Paul Topham (Professor, Head of School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering)
- Mr Md Uddin (Placement Student)
- Dr Petra Van Koningsbruggen (Lecturer)
- Dr Zoran Visak (Senior Lecturer, Programme Director)
- Dr Dave Walton (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Stephen Worrall (Lecturer)
- Dr Zhentao Wu (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Xi Yu (Lecturer)
- Dr Qian Xu (Lecturer)
- Dr Qing Yuan (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Yuqing Zhang (Senior Research Fellow)
Administration Team
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Charmaine Senior (Academic Support Administrator)
- Ms Shelley Smith (Undergraduate Taught Programmes Administrator)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Ms Lauren Bickley (Research Student)
- Mr Joseph Boakye Dankwa Osei (Research Student)
- Mr Brad Coward (Research Student)
- Mr Benjamin Dages (Research Student)
- Mrs Amritha Dhanya Cheriachanasseril Sasankan (Research Student)
- Mr Bawan Hadad (Research Student)
- Miss Ali Hana Khanom (Research Student)
- Miss Georgia Maitland (Research Student)
- Mr Vijayakumar Manavalan (Research Student)
- Miss Marta Maso Martinez (Research Student - EBRI)
- Mr Muhammad Nauman Khan (Research Student - EBRI)
- Miss Mpho Thabang Rapoo (Research Student)
- Mr Clyde-Theodore Nguimous Batista (Research Student)
- Mr Christopher Thomas (Research Student)
- Ms Anisha Patel (Postgraduate Research Student)
- Mr Goutham Ponnusamy (Research Student - EBRI)
- Mr Filipe Goncalves Sarmento (Research Student)
- Miss Bridget Tang (Research Student)
- Miss Melissa Venegas (Research Student)
- Mr Lewis Yandle (Research Student)
- Civil Engineering
Department Members
- Professor Mujib Rahman (Head of Civil Engineering, Professor)
- Dr Nii Ankrah (Deputy Head of Department for Teaching and Learning, Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Tala Kasim (Deputy Head of Department for Operations, Lecturer, Programme Director)
- Dr Ahmed Abed (Research Fellow)
- Dr Sam Adu-Amankwah (Lecturer)
- Dr Haris Alexakis (Lecturer)
- Dr Maxwell Fordjour Antwi Afari (Lecturer)
- Professor Denis Chamberlain (Visiting Professorial Fellow)
- Dr John Elgy (Visiting Fellow)
- Miss Elisha Francis (Technician)
- Dr Peter Hedges (Visiting Academic Fellow)
- Dr Angeliki Karperaki (Lecturer)
- Professor Roger Kettle (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Moura Mehravar (Lecturer, Deputy Programme Director)
- Dr Theodosios Papathanasiou (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Kenneth Park (Reader)
- Dr Behzad Rahimzadeh (RAEng Visiting Professor)
- Dr Heba Sabboubeh (Lecturer)
- Dr Massud Sadegzadeh (Sessional Lecturer)
- Dr Mershack Tetteh (Lecturer)
- Dr Kiran Tota-Maharaj (Reader)
- Dr Nikolaos Tziavos (Lecturer)
- Dr Chonghui Wang (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Gayan Wedawatta (Senior Lecturer, Deputy Programme Director of BSc, CPM & QS)
- Professor Alan Woodside (Visiting Professorial Fellow)
- Dr Ning Xie (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
- Ms Zijing Zhang (KTP Associate)
Administration Team
- Ms Margaret Ebanks (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Charmaine Senior (Academic Support Administrator)
- Ms Wing Shan Fung (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Miss Charlotte Abdy (Research Student)
- Mr Daniel Twum Addae (Research Student)
- Miss Tasmia Azim (Research Student)
- Zeina Abdul Aziz (Research Student)
- Mr Sina Fadaie Sestelani (Research Student)
- Mr Shadi Fathi (Research Student)
- Mr Moinul Hossain (Research Student)
- Mr Dhaval Shah (Research Student)
- Mrs Sadri Shadabi (Research Student)
- Ms Tayebeh Soltanighias (Research Student)
- Mr Parastou Shahid Zadeh (Research Student)
- Engineering Systems and Supply Chain Management
Department Members
- Dr Lucy Rackliff (Head of Department of Engineering Systems & Supply Chain Management, Senior Lecturer, Programme Director)
- Mr Adrian Addison (Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Richard Atkinson (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Muhammad Azmat (Azi) (Lecturer)
- Dr Jack Carnell (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Mr David Carpenter (Programme Co-ordinator, Tutor Director)
- Dr Andrew Greasley (Lecturer)
- Dr Paul Hacker (Hon. Visiting Professor)
- Dr Reem Hadeed (Lecturer in Engineering Projects & Operations Management)
- Mr Constant Iannacci (Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Ian Joesbury (Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Barry Jones (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Karen Jones (Lecturer, Programme Director)
- Mr Blane Judd (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Dimitra Kalaitzi (Lecturer)
- Mr David Leach (Senior Teaching Fellow, Programme Director)
- Dr Kurt Y. Liu (Reader in Supply Chain Analytics)
- Dr Marin Marinov (Lecturer)
- Dr Christos Papanagnou (Deputy Head of Department, Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Brian Price (Lecturer)
- Mrs Hilary Price (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Andreas Seiler (Visiting Research Fellow)
- Mrs Sarah Spink (Teaching Fellow, Transport)
- Dr James Stone (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Evanthia Thanou (Lecturer in Supply Chain Engineering)
- Mr Alan Todd (Business Engagement Manager)
- Dr Hing Yan Tong (Lecturer)
- Dr Guilhermina Torrao (Teaching Fellow, Transport)
- Dr John White (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Qiang Wu (Lecturer)
Administration Team
- Ms Margaret Ebanks (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Charmaine Senior (Academic Support Administrator)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Mrs Amritha D Cheriachanasseril Sasankan (Research Student)
- Mrs Sreemoyee Chowdhury (Research Student)
- Mr Filipe Goncalves Sarmento (Research Student)
- Mrs Yixuan Shi (Research Student)
- Miss Melissa Venegas (Research Student)
School of Engineering and Technology
Head of School - Dr Laura Leslie
- Aston Foundation Centre
Department Members
- Dr Sukhvinder (Suki) Phull (Interim Head of Aston Foundation Centre, Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Sarah Alexander (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Rebecca Broadbent (Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Nasir Bello (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Sarah Carnell (Teaching Assistant)
- Mr Tom Davenport (Teaching Fellow)
- Ms Debjani Goswami (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Ana Kyoseva (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Amy Patten (Senior Teaching Fellow, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education)
Administration Team
- Mrs Caroline O'Hara (Foundation Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Jo Reid (Academic Support Administrator)
- Aston Professional Engineering Centre
Management Team
- Dr Ahmad Baroutaji (Interim Head of Department)
- Mr Stephen Luke (Director of Professional Engineering)
- Mrs Carol Winder (Professional Engineering Manager)
Professional Services Team
- Ms Kristiana Atanasova (International Programmes Officer)
- Mr Adhiraj Banerjee (Programmes Officer)
- Mrs Olive Burke (STEM Up Project Officer)
- Ms Sarah Craney (Programmes Officer)
- Mr Luke Ip (Programme Officer)
- Mr Gregg Smith (Programmes Officer)
- Mrs Jo Reid (Academic Support Administrator)
Programme Directors
- Dr Ahmad Baroutaji
- Dr Cain Evans
- Mr Geoff Heron
- Mr Constant Iannacci
- Mr Lee Jenkins
- Mr David Leach
- Dr Muhidin Mohamed
- Dr Lucy Rackliff
- Dr Amrik Singh
- Dr Zoran Visak
APEC Staff
- Mr Dowhood Ajaib
- Dr Ibukunoluwa Akinyemi
- Dr Nicola Allett
- Dr Shohel Amin
- Dr Jose Manuel Andrade
- Mr Richard Atkinson
- Dr Muhammad Azmat
- Dr Krishna Balthu
- Mr Daniel Bammeke
- Ms Stephanie Barnett
- Mr Julien Barney
- Mr David Barry
- Mr Jeff Barton
- Dr Lucy Bastin
- Mr Colin Benham
- Mr Matthew Stuart Bickley
- Prof Dawn Bonfield
- Dr Malcolm Booth
- Prof David Brown
- Dr Felipe Campelo
- Dr Jack Carnell
- Mr David Carpenter
- Mr Carl Cattell
- Ms Heather Clarke
- Mr Ian Cornelius
- Mr Glyn Davis
- Dr Paul Devadoss
- Stewart Edmondson
- Mr George Elder
- Dr Nagi Fahmi
- Mr James Fallas
- Mr Ismail Farhan
- Dr Adam Farooq
- Mr Alan Fitzgerald
- Dr John Fletcher
- Mr Matthew Foyle
- Diana Galiakhmetova
- Dr Luis Garcia Paucar
- Dr Harry Goldingay
- Mrs Debjani Goswami
- Mr Graeme Hall
- Mrs Jennifer Heaselgrave
- Mr Alan Higginson
- Mr Graham Hollick
- Adrienne Houston
- Mr William Hung
- Mr Khadim Hussain
- Clare Jackson
- Mr Ian Joesbury
- Mr Barry Jones
- Dr Karen Jones
- Mr Stephen Jones
- Mr Blane Judd
- Dr Dimitra Kalaitzi
- Dr Achilleas Karayiannis
- Dr Stuart Kerrigan
- Mr Peter Keeling
- Mr Richard Kenyon
- Tatyana Konkova
- Mr Jonathan Ling
- Mr Paul Linthwaite
- Mr Dewi Lloyd
- Mr Alan Loader
- Mr Vincent Malala
- Dr Marin Marinov
- Ms Caroline McCourt
- Bibian Mendez
- John Merriman
- Mrs Melania Milecka-Forrest
- Dr Barry Mills
- Dr Seyed Mohammad Mojtabaei
- Ms Manisha Morais
- Miss Salwa Musa
- Ms Jill Mustard
- Zedias Mutema
- Mostafa Nick
- Dr Breno Nunes
- Dr Trevor Oliver
- Dr Stephen Owen
- Ms Jane Owens
- Dr Christina Palmer
- Dr Gajanan Panchal
- Dr Alina Patelli
- Prof John Penny
- Mr Richard Poole
- Dr Jude Preston
- Dr Shanmugan Rajegopal
- Ms Megan Robertson
- Mr Ronald Roome
- Mrs Debaleena Roy
- Ms Christine Saaler
- Ms Namita Sahoo
- Dr Andreas Schroeder
- Mr Anthony Scott
- Mr James Stone
- Prof Kate Sugden
- Shruthi Suresh
- Dr Bee Tan
- Dr Peter Theobald
- Mr Paul Titmus
- Dr Guilhermina Torrao
- Mr John Tucker
- Dr David Turner
- Mr Graham Vanhouse
- Mrs Arezoo Vejdanparast
- Dr Eliseo Vilalta Perdomo
- Dr Hai Wang
- Dr Philip Weber
- Mr Stuart Welch
- Prof Mike Wood
- Dr Qiang Wu
- Dr Jin Yang
- Dr Mo Yedroudj
- Dr Qingchun Yuan
- Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering
Department Members
- Dr José Ricardo Sodré (Head of Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering, Reader)
- Dr Abed Alaswad (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Marzia Alam (Postdoctoral Research Associate in Hybrid Energy Systems)
- Dr Abdullah Alhusin Alkhdur (Lecturer)
- Dr Nasser Amaitik (Research Associate/Fellow)
- Mr Adeel Arshad (Research Assistant)
- Ms Natasha Bertram (Apprentice Technician)
- Professor Richard Booth (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Lyndon Buck (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Subodh Deshmukh (Honorary Professor)
- Mr Amarjit Dhugga (Technician)
- Mr James Duggins (Technician)
- Dr Antonio Fratini (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Patrick Geoghegan (Senior Lecturer)
- Miss Renia Gkountiou (Technician)
- Mr Luke Gregory (Apprentice Technician)
- Mr Stuart Hallard (Technician)
- Mr Diarmuid Hehir (Apprentice Technician)
- Dr Jon Hewitt (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Abul Hossain (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Muhammad Imran (Senior Lecturer)
- Miss Ainul Nadirah Izaharuddin (KTP Research Associate)
- Dr Ali Jabran (Lecturer)
- Dr Yu Jia (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Sarah Junaid (Senior Lecturer)
- Mr Kaielum Kerr (Workshop Technician)
- Professor Ashok Kochhar (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Sokratis Dimitrios Komaris (Lecturer)
- Dr Jisun Kim (Lecturer in Product Design)
- Dr Tarun Kumar (KTP Associate)
- Dr Laura Leslie (Reader, Head of School of Engineering and Technology)
- Mr Reece Lillie (Technician)
- Dr Richard Lillington (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Chao Liu (Lecturer)
- Dr Yang Lu (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Xianghong Ma (Senior Lecturer)
- Professor Igor Meglinski (Professor)
- Dr Surej Mouli (Lecturer)
- Mr Dave Palmer (Technician)
- Mr Giacamo Pavan (Research Assistant)
- Dr James Pickering (Lecturer)
- Professor John Penny (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Mark Prince (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Ahmed Rezk (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Mohammad Sharifshourijeh (Lecturer)
- Mr David Smith (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Muftooh Siddiqi (Senior Lecturer)
- Mr Henry Southwick-Camp (Apprentice Technician)
- Mr Jean-Baptiste Souppez (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Mark Stanton (Workshop Technician)
- Mr Ian Storer (Senior Teaching Fellow)
- Mr Kanthan Theivendran (Honorary Professor)
- Dr Gareth Thomson (Reader)
- Dr David Upton (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Timothy Whitehead (Senior Lecturer)
- Professor Mike Wood (Industrial Chair)
- Dr Jian Wan (Lecturer)
- Dr Yuchun Xu (Chair)
- Dr Ming Zhang (Research Fellow)
- Dr Alexander Zhigalov (Lecturer)
Administration Team
- Ms Nishath Hussain (Postgraduate Programme Administrator)
- Mrs Jo Reid (Academic Support Administrator)
- Mr Andrew Thompson (Taught Programmes Administrator)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Mr. Md Shamim Ahmed (Research Student)
- Mr Fabio Barollo (Postgraduate Research Student)
- Mr Mehul Chauhan (Research Student)
- Ms Amy Harrison (Research Student)
- Mr Handsome Habakkuk Banda (Research Student)
- Mr Youxi Hu (Research Student)
- Mr Joshua Lowe (Research Student)
- Mr Yazan Mahmoud Yousef Al-Wreikat (Research Student)
- Mr Simon Mwangi (Research Student)
- Mr Abdelnasir Omran (Research Student)
- Mr Zezhong Wang (Research Student)
Research Institutes
- Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies
Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies - AiPT
Academic / Research Staff
- Prof Sergei Turitsyn (AiPT Director, 50th Anniversary Professor in Photonics, Head of Nonlinear Photonics and Fibre Lasers Group)
- Mr Diego Arguello Ron (Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Dr Natalia Bazieva (Research Fellow)
- Dr David Benton (Senior Research Fellow)
- Dr Sun Bing (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
- Dr Sonia Boscolo (Research Fellow in Photonic and Optical Communication Technologies)
- Dr Manuel Crespo (Research Fellow)
- Dr Steven Daniels (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Ms Rose Davies (Research Fellow)
- Freire De Carvalho Souza (Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Prof Nick Doran (Professor in Photonics, Founder of Photonics Research Group)
- Mr Aleksandr Donodin (Early Career Researcher)
- Dr Viktor Dremin (Research Fellow)
- Dr Vladislav Dvoyrin (Senior Research Fellow)
- Prof Andrew Ellis (50th Anniversary Professor of Optical Communications, AIPT Deputy Director, Head of Optical Communications Group)
- Prof Wladek Forysiak (Professor in Photonics, AIPT Deputy Director)
- Ms Gabriella Gardosi (Research Assistant)
- Dr Vladimir Gordienko (Research Fellow)
- Dr Tatjana Gric (Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow)
- Dr Paul Harper (Head of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Reader)
- Mr Pratim Hazarika (Research Associate)
- Dr Daniel Hill (Senior Research Fellow)
- Mr Richard Hogg (Professor of Photonics)
- Dr Hani Kbashi (Research Fellow)
- Dr Nand Kishor Meena (Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow)
- Dr Aleksandr Koviarov (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Yiming Li (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Petro Lutsyk (Lecturer)
- Mr Muhammad Malik (KTP Associate)
- Dr Egor Manuylovich (Research Associate)
- Dr Richard Nock (Lecturer in Electronic Engineering and Systems)
- Dr Shabnam Noor (Research Associate)
- Dr Vladimir Osipov (Research Fellow)
- Dr Auro Perego (Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow)
- Dr Ian Phillips (Teaching Fellow)
- Dr Yaroslav Prylepskiy (Senior Research Fellow)
- Prof Edik Rafailov (Professor, Head of the Optoelectronics and Biomedical Photonics Research Group)
- Dr Alex Rozhin (Reader in Nanoscience Technology Research)
- Dr Sergey Sergeyev (Associate Professor)
- Dr Xuewen Shu (Research Fellow)
- Dr Sergei Sokolovsky (Senior Research Fellow)
- Dr Mariia Sorokina (Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow)
- Dr Lucas Souza (Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow)
- Miss Sasipim Srivallapanondh (Early Stage Researcher on the EU ITN project MENTOR)
- Dr Dmitrii Stoliarov (Research Associate)
- Prof Kate Sugden (Professor in Photonics, EPS College Deputy Dean, Head of Enginering and Technology School)
- Prof Misha Sumetsky (Professor in Photonics, Head of Nanoscale Photonics Group)
- Dr Stylianos Sygletos (Associate Professor)
- Dr Mingming Tan (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Elena Turitsyna (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Mohammed Umar (Research Assistant)
- Prof David Webb (50th Anniversary Professor of Photonics, Head of Optical Sensing Group, Director of Aston Institute for Urban Technologies and the Environment (ASTUTE))
- Dr John Williams (Reader)
- Dr Amit Yadav (Research Fellow)
- Prof Lin Zhang (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Kaiming Zhou (Senior Research Fellow, Head of AIPT Industrial Outreach Laboratory, Head of Laser Material Processing Group)
Professional / Technical / Administrative Staff
- Dr Valentina Barker (Business Development Manager for Agri-tech Innovation Project - (ERDF))
- Ms Christiane Doering-Saad (EC Project Management Coordinator AIPT)
- Mr Martin Grant (Project Manager)
- Ms Tatiana Kilina (AIPT Manager for EU Projects, Research & Communication)
- Ms Nataliia Manuilovich (Project Manager)
- Mrs Miriam Messiha (Project Manager)
- Ms Swaroopa Mucheli-sudhakar (Technician)
- Miss Sintija Samaka (Technical Assistant)
- Ms Adriana Svetozarova (Project Manager)
- Dr Kirill Tokmakov (Technician)
- Ms Karola Woods (Project Manager)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Ms Arooj (Research Student, Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Mahmood Abu Romoh (Research Student)
- Ms Safiya Jasim Ali Dabwan (Research Student)
- Mr Mike Anderson (Research Student)
- Ms Maria Bastamova (Research Student)
- Ms Aisha Bibi (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Stepan Bogdanov (Research Student)
- Mr Nelson Castro Salgado (Research Student)
- Ms Peiyun Cheng (Research Student)
- Ms Diana Galiakhmetova (Research Student)
- Mr Geraldo Gomes (Research Student)
- Debjani Goswami (Research Student)
- Mr Long Hoang Nguyen (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr Mohammad Hosseini (Research Student, Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
- Mr James Stewart Walley Huges (Research Student)
- Mr Vladyslav Kolbasin (Research Student)
- Ms Karina Nurlybayeva (Research Student)
- Ms Ray Paulami (Research Student)
- Mr Alberto Rodríguez Cuevas (Research Student, Early Stage Researcher in European Training Network Doctorate - Project MEFISTA)
- Ms Dini Pratiwi (Research Student)
- Mr Egor Sedov (Research Student)
- Ms Negar Shaabani Shishavan (Research Student)
- Mr Minji Shi (Research Student)
- Mr Atif Syed Iqrar (Research Student)
- Ms Qing Yang (Research Student, Marie Curie Research Fellow - Project MEFISTA)
- Mr Sajid Zaki (Research Student)
- Aston Institute for Urban Technologies and the Environment
Aston Institute for Urban Technologies and the Environment - ASTUTE
Academic / Research Staff
- Prof David Webb (50th Anniversary Professor of Photonics, Head of Optical Sensing Group, Director of Aston Institute for Urban Technologies and the Environment – ASTUTE)
- Dr Maxwell Afari (Lecturer)
- Dr Abed Alaswad (Lecturer)
- Dr Haris Charalampos Alexakis (Lecturer)
- Dr Tabbi Awotwe (Lecturer)
- Dr Muhammad Azmat (Lecturer)
- Dr Ulysses Bernardet (Lecturer)
- Dr Christopher Buckingham (Reader)
- Dr Felipe Campelo (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Amit Chattopadhyay (Reader)
- Dr Mariia Chli (Reader)
- Prof Tony Clark (Professor)
- Dr Matthew Derry (Lecturer)
- Dr Anikó Ekárt (Reader)
- Dr Antonio Fratini (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Sotos Generalis (Reader)
- Dr Paul Grace (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Abul Hossain (Lecturer)
- Dr Ali Jabran (Lecturer)
- Dr Yu Jia (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Jason Laurie (Lecturer)
- Dr Laura Leslie (Senior Lecturer, Head of School of Engineering and Technology)
- Prof Jo Lumsden (Professor, Head of Computer Sciences Department)
- Dr Luis Manso (Lecturer)
- Dr Marin Marinov (Lecturer)
- Prof Richard Martin (Professor)
- Dr Moura Mehravar (Lecturer)
- Dr Dmitry Nerukh (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Kenneth Park (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Alina Patelli (Lecturer)
- Dr Brian Price (Lecturer)
- Prof Mujib Rahman (Professor in Civil Engineering, Head of Civil Engineering Department)
- Dr Ahmed Rezk (Lecturer)
- Prof David Saad (Professor in Mathematics)
- Dr Peter Sawyer (Professor)
- Dr Lucas Souza (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Jose Ricardo Sodre (Lecturer)
- Prof Paul Topham (Professor)
- Dr Helen Wang (Lecturer)
- Dr Gayan Wedawatta (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Stephen Worrall (Lecturer)
- Dr Yuchun Xu (Professor in Manufacturing Engineering)
- Prof Hai Zhuge (Professor)
Professional / Technical / Administrative Staff
- Mr Paul Gretton (Senior Project Manager)
- Ms Gosia Dzierdzikowska (Project Administrator)
- Malgorzata Dzierdzikowska (Project Officer)
- Ms Renia Gkountiou (Additive Manufacturing Technician)
- Mr William Utting (Design and Additive Manufacturing Engineer)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Ms Anna Stefani (Research Student)
- Mr Daniel Rodriguez-Criado (Research Student)
- Mr David Michael Roberts (Research Student)
- Ms Debjani Goswami (Research Student)
- Mr Dirichukwu Goodluck Oguzie (Research Student)
- Mr Abdelnasir Omran (Research Student)
- Ms Gabriella Gardosi (Research Student)
- Mr Handsome Banda (Research Student)
- Ms Huma Samin (Research Student)
- Mr Jacob Sharp (Research Student)
- Ms Jodie Sylvia May Ashford (Research Student)
- Mr Karl Lydon (Research Student)
- Mr Lewis Blackburn (Research Student)
- Mr Michael George Pritchard (Research Student)
- Mr Muhammad Moid Khalid Khan (Research Student)
- Mr Muhammad Wahid-UL Zaman (Research Student)
- Ms Parastou Shahid Zadeh (Research Student)
- Mr Renato Barros (Research Student)
- Mr Robert Harrison (Research Student)
- Mr Saied Salehi Zanjani (Research Student)
- Ms Shadi Fathi (Research Student)
- Mr Yazan Mahmoud Al-Wreikat (Research Student)
- Ms Yingyi Kuang (Research Student)
- Mr Zezhong Wang (Research Student)
- Mr Zhi Qiao (Research Student)
- Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute
Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute - EBRI
Academic and Research Staff
Prof Patricia Thornley (Professor, Director of EBRI)
- Dr Abed Alaswad (Lecturer)
- Dr Amirpiran Amiri (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Abu Bakr Ahmad Fazili (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Marzia Alam (Research Associate)
- Dr Scott Banks (Lecturer)
- Dr Paula Blanco-Sanchez (Senior Lecturer)
- Prof Tony Bridgwater (Professor)
- Dr Yi Cheng (MSCA Fellow)
- Dr Katie Chong (Senior Lecturer - Director of Research Outputs)
- Dr Alfred Fernandez-Castane (Senior Lecturer - Research Implementation)
- Dr Marta Granollers Mesa (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Abarasi Hart (Research Associate)
- Dr Cecilia Higa G. Morilla (Research Associate)
- Ms Carmen Hierro Iglesias (Research Assistant)
- Dr Muhammad Imran (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Daniel Jozef Nowakowski (Lecturer, Lab Manager)
- Dr Vesna Najdanovic (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Mahesan Naidu Subramaniam (Research Associate)
- Dr Jude Onwudili (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Amin Osatiashtiani (Lecturer)
- Dr Iram Razaq (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Dr Ahmed Rezk (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Mirjam Röeder (Senior Research Fellow)
- Ms Regina Siu (Research Associate)
- Mr Samuel Sogbesan (Hydrogen and BECCS)
- Dr Joanna Sparks (Biomass Policy Fellow)
- Dr Kiran Tota – Maharaj (Reader
- Dr Jiawei Wang (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Zhentao Wu (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Eyup Yildirir (Research Assistant)
- Dr Xi Yu (Lecturer)
- Dr Qingchun Yuan (Lecturer)
Professional, Technical and Administrative Staff
- Dr Sarah Asplin (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Materials and Feedstock Analysis)
- Dr Jinesh Cherukkattu Manayil (Laboratory Technician)
- Mrs Rebecca Fothergill (Stakeholder Engagement Manager)
- Ms Catriona Heaton (Supergen Stakeholder Relations Manager)
- Mr Yash Khare (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Business Analysis)
- Mr Tim Miller (Government and Enterprise Engagement Manager – Director of Research Engagement)
- Mr Michael Omatsola-Morgan (ERDF Industrial Project Administrator)
- Ms Aishwarya Nagath Menon (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Business Growth Specialist)
- Dr Maria Pimenta da Costa Ocampo (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Environmental and Economic Assessment)
- Mr Durga Prasad (Supergen Bioenergy Hub Project Manager)
- Dr Clara Serrano (Plant Manager)
- Mr Sachin Solomon (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Fuel applications)
- Mr Christopher Thomas (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Technology Design and Engineering Support)
- Ms Irene Watkinson (ERDF Project Marketing and Communications Manager)
Postgraduate Research Students
- Ms Charlotte Abdy (Research Student)
- Mr Dan Abudu (Research Student)
- Ms Ifeoluwa Akande (Research Student)
- Mr Muhammad Nauman Ahmad Khan (Research Student)
- Mr Joseph Boakye Dankwa Osei (Research Student)
- Mr Josh Bond (Research Student)
- Ms Marion Engole (Research Student)
- Ms Memoona Khalid (Research Student)
- Ms Seyed Emad Hashemnezhad (Research Student)
- Ms Carmen Hierro Iglesias (Research Student)
- Ms Regina Hoi Man Siu (Research Student)
- Ms Marta Maso Martinez (Research Student)
- Mr Christopher Michael Thomas (Research Student)
- Mr Omar Mohammad (Research Student)
- Mr Clyde-Theodore Nguimous Batista (Research Student)
- Mr Prince Anthony Okoro (Research Student)
- Ms Morenike Peters (Research Student)
- Mr Goutham Ponnusamy (Research Student)
- Ms Mpho Thabang Rapoo (Research Student)
- Mr Daniel Taylor (Research Student)
- Mr Lewis Yandle (Research Student)
- Ms Zeinab Zandieh (Research Student)
- Ms Jiaojiao Zheng (Research Student)
- Aston Digital Futures Institute
Aston Digital Futures Institute - ADFI
Academic and Research Staff
- Prof Adbul Sadka (Professor and Director Of Aston Digital Futures Institute)