College Centre

College Deans

  • Professor Tony Clark, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean
  • Professor Kate Sugden, Deputy Dean Engagement and Development
  • Professor Dorothy Monekosso, Deputy Dean Research and Enterprise
  • Dr Tala Kasim, Deputy Director of Research Programmes
  • Dr Sylvia Wong, Deputy Dean International
  • Mr Thomas Harvey-Ball, Deputy Dean Education and Student Experience
  • Dr Panos Doss, Associate Dean Education and Student Experience
  • Dr Lilit Hakobyan, Associate Dean Education and Student Experience
  • Dr Gareth Woods, Associate Dean Education and Student Experience
  • Dr Richard Martin, Associate Dean Research and Enterprise
  • Dr Abed Alaswad, Associate Dean Research and Enterprise
  • Professor Lucy Bastin, Associate Dean Research and Enterprise
  • Dr Elizabeth Wanner, Associate Dean Research and Enterprise

Strategy and Administration

  • Mrs Aman Gill-Knobbs, Director of Operations
  • Ms Michelle May, Finance Business Partner
  • Ms Joanne Elsmore, HR Business Partner
  • Mr Reece Lillie, Head of Technical Services
  • Mr Dan Hayes, Research Manager
  • Mrs Ranjit Judge, Operations Manager
  • Mr Gene Lock, Marketing Manager
  • Ms Vanessa Vogt, Quality Officer
  • Ms Purbani Chakrabarti, Strategic Funding Manager
  • Ms Nadia Bareford, Executive Assistant to Professor Tony Clark
  • Mrs Zhenya Parnell, PA to Deputy Deans

Operations Team

  • Mrs Ranjit Judge, Operations Manager
  • Mrs Kanchan Patel, Operations Coordinator
  • Mrs Jo Reid, Operations Coordinator
  • Mrs Charmaine Senior, Operations Coordinator
  • Ms Jinny Randhawa, Operations Coordinator
  • Ms Jenneka Pope, Purchasing Officer 

Research Team

  • Mr Dan Hayes, Research Manager

Quality Team

  • Ms Vanessa Vogt, Quality Officer
  • Ms Sharmin Shultana, Quality Coordinator

School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies 

Dean of School Professor Damien Foster

Software Engineering and Cybersecurity

Department Members

  • Professor Damien Foster (Dean of School of Computer Science and Digital Technology, Interim Head of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity)
  • Dr Emeka Abakasanga (Lecturer)
  • Dr Tony Beaumont (Visiting Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Roy Benson (UG Programme Director)
  • Mr Marius Bujorianu (Teaching Associate)
  • Professor Caniel Cartter (Visiting Professor of IT Innovation)
  • Professor Jose Maria Alcaraz Calero (Professor in Cybersecurity)
  • Dr Dan Di (Lecturer)
  • Miss Sanobar Dar (Teaching Associate)
  • Dr Katy Deacon (Visiting Academic)
  • Miss Sibylle Dreischer (Programming Support Officer)
  • Ms Rachel Dodd (Professor in Digital Innovation)
  • Mr Vangelis Fafoutis (Laboratory Tutor)
  • Dr Kaniz Fatema (Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Marwa Gadala (Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Paul Grace (Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Programme Director Cybersecurity)
  • Dr Lilit Hakobyan (Lecturer)
  • Dr Amal Htait (Lecturer)
  • Dr Vitor Jesus (Lecturer)
  • Dr Michal Konecny (Visiting Academic Fellow)
  • Dr Vitalii Kriukov (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
  • Dr Richard Lee (Teaching Fellow, BSc Computer Science Programme Director)
  • Mr Pereira Lopes Lucas Souza (Visiting Research Fellow)
  • Professor Jo Lumsden (Visiting Academic Fellow)
  • Dr Ricardo Melo Czekster (Lecturer)
  • Dr Nitin Naik (Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity)
  • Dr Fatemeh Raji (Lecturer in Cybersecurity)
  • Mrs Megan Robertson (E-Learning Specialist)
  • Dr Debaleena Roy (Teaching Fellow)
  • Mr Agawaid Saleen (Laboratory Tutor)
  • Ms Siva Sankari Sivakaminathan (KTP Associate)
  • Ms Abinaya Sowriraghavan (Teaching Fellow, MSc Programme Director)
  • Dr Hai Wang (Senior Lecturer)
  • Dr Hongxia (Helen) Wang (Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Thais Webber (Lecturer)
  • Dr Sylvia Wong (Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Programme Director, Associate Dean International)

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Mr Jahid Ali (Research Student)
  • Mr Vincent Gbouna Zakka (Research Student)
  • Mr Owen James Reynolds (Research Student)
  • Mr Nestor Leal Lopez (Research Student)
  • Miss Nadeesha Chathurangi Naradde Vidana Pathirana (Research Student)
Applied AI and Robotics

Department Members

Postgraduate Research Students 

  • Mr Azzaldin Tariq Ishaq Abdulrahim Alkooheji (Research Student)
  • Miss Niloofar Aminikalibar (Research Student)
  • Hugh Roy Langley Charterton (Research Student)
  • Ms Sanobar Dar (Research Student)
  • Mr John Connor Rego Hamilton (Research Student)
  • Mr Gatis Jurkans (Research Student)
  • Mercy Kanyi (Industry Club Associate)
  • Sina Seyfadini Kuhbanani (Research Student)
  • Jacob Sharp (Research Student)
  • Mr Dirichukwu Goodluck Oguzie (Research Student)
  • Mr Rafael Oliveira Ribeiro (Research Student)
  • Mr Kieran Saunders (Research Student)
  • Mr Jacob Sharp (Research Student)
  • Miss Anna Stefani (Research Student)
  • Vincent Gbouna Zakka (Research Student)
  • Mr Muhammad Zaman (Research Student)

School of Engineering and Innovation

Interim Dean of School Professor Kate Sugden, supported by Professor Paul Topham

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnologies

Department Members

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Miss Aishatu Barambu (Research Student)
  • Ms Lauren Bickley (Research Student)
  • Mr Joseph Boakye Dankwa Osei (Research Student)
  • Mr Brad Coward (Research Student)
  • Mr Benjamin Dages (Research Student)
  • Mr Adam Rashad El-Aradi (Research Student)
  • Mr Bawan Hadad (Research Student)
  • Miss Courtney Harris (Research Student)
  • Mr William Homer (Research Student)
  • Miss Alice Johnson (Research Student)
  • Miss Ali Hana Khanom (Research Student)
  • Mr Nestor Leal Lopez (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)
  • Ms Anisha Patel (Postgraduate Research Student)
  • Miss Melissa Venegas (Research Student)
  • Mr Rajan Singh Vraitch (Research Student)
  • Mr Lewis Yandle (Research Student) 
Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering

Department Members

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Mr Md Shamim Ahmed (Research Student)
  • Mr Mohammad Mehdi Keramati Feyz Abadi (Research Student)
  • Mr Joshua Andrelan de S'ouza (Research Student)
  • Miss Maryna Bakumenko (Research Student)
  • Mr Fabio Barollo (Postgraduate Research Student)
  • Mr Mehul Chauhan (Research Student)
  • Mr Josiah Shem-Davis (Research Student)
  • Mr Lacy Godwin (Research Student)
  • Ms Amy Harrison (Research Student)
  • Ms Anju Ann Jacob (Research Student)
  • Ms Ekgari Kasawala (Research Student)
  • Mr Haseeb Fayaz Khan (Research Student)
  • Ms Fatima Khanom (Research Student)
  • Mr Joshua Lowe (Research Student)
  • Ms Rebecca Lousie Lewis (Research Student)
  • Mr Yazan Mahmoud Yousef Al-Wreikat (Research Student)
  • Ms Nawal Mohamed (Research Student)
  • Mr Shekhar Mnit (Research Student)
  • Mr Juan Ignacio Cadiz Miranda (Research Student)
  • Mr Simon Mwangi (Research Student)
  • Mr Godwin Okewu Omeje (Research Student)
  • Miss Aleena Urooj (Research Student)
  • Mr Zezhong Wang (Research Student)
  • Ms Sinling Tiffany Yu (Research Student)
Design and Technology Innovation

Department Members

  • Dr Timothy Whitehead (Head of Design and Technology Innovation, Senior Lecturer)
  • Dr Kinana Aliko (Sustainability Consultant Engineer)
  • Mr Julien Barney (Business Manager)
  • Mr Paul Gretton (Senior Projects Manager)
  • Dr Jon Hewitt (Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Jisun Kim (Lecturer in Product Design)
  • Dr Richard Lilington (Senior Teaching Fellow)
  • Miss Rebecca McCormack (Project Officer)
  • Ms Laura Scotland (Business Development Manager)
  • Mr Ian Storer (Senior Teaching Fellow)
  • Mr Samuel Tebbutt (3D Design Engineer)
  • Mr William Utting (Design and Additive Manufacturing Engineer)
  • Miss Aaisha Yasir (Technician)
Civil Engineering

Department Members

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Mr Mohammed Izzniyusri Bin Abdul Halim (Research Student)
  • Miss Mahsa Asadollahi (Research Student)
  • Miss Charlotte Abdy (Research Student)
  • Mr Daniel Twum Addae (Research Student) 
  • Miss Tasmia Azim (Research Student)
  • Zeina Abdul Aziz (Research Student)
  • Mr Shadi Fathi (Research Student)
  • Mr Moinul Hossain (Research Student)
  • Mr Waleed Bin Inqiad (Research Student)
  • Mr Dhaval Shah (Research Student)
  • Mrs Sadri Shadabi (Research Student)
  • Ms Tayebeh Soltanighias (Research Student)
  • Mr Parastou Shahid Zadeh (Research Student)
Engineering Management

Department Members

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Mr Hamad Alshatti (Research Student)
  • Miss Lydia Egbo (Research Student)
  • Miss Nandhini Mahesh (Research Student)
  • Mr Filipe Goncalves Sarmento (Research Student)
  • Miss Prachiti Prashant Shinde (Research Student)
  • Miss Melissa Venegas (Research Student)
  • Mrs Amritha D Cheriachanasseril Sasankan (Research Student)
  • Mrs Sreemoyee Chowdhury (Research Student)
  • Mr Onyeka John Chukwuka (Research Assistant)
  • Miss Nurcan Isil Kirer (Research Student)
  • Mr Filipe Goncalves Sarmento (Research Student)
  • Mrs Yixuan Shi (Research Student)

Research Institutes

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence

Academic and Research Staff

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies

Academic and Research Staff

  • Professor Sergei Turitsyn (AiPT Director, 50th Anniversary Professor in Photonics, Head of Nonlinear Photonics and Fibre Lasers Group)
  • Professor Nick Doran (Professor in Photonics, Founder of Photonics Research Group)
  • Professor Andrew Ellis (50th Anniversary Professor of Optical Communications, AIPT Deputy Director, Head of Optical Communications Group)
  • Professor Richard Hogg (Professor of Photonics, AIPT Deputy Director)
  • Professor Edik Rafailov (Professor, Head of the Optoelectronics and Biomedical Photonics Research Group)
  • Professor Kate Sugden (Professor in Photonics, EPS College Deputy Dean, Interim Head of Engineering and Innovation School)
  • Professor Misha Sumetsky (Professor in Photonics, Head of Nanoscale Photonics Group)
  • Professor David Webb (50th Anniversary Professor of Photonics, Head of Optical Sensing Group, Director of Aston Institute for Urban Technologies and the Environment (ASTUTE)
  • Professor Lin Zhang (Emeritus Professor)
  • Mr Yousuf Moiz Ali (Research Fellow, Marie Skladowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
  • Dr Thomas Allsop (Visiting Fellow)
  • Dr Mariia Bastamova (Research Fellow)
  • Dr Natalia Bazieva (Research Fellow)
  • Dr David Benton (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Dr Aisha Bibi (Research Associate)
  • Dr Sun Bing (Marie Curie Research Fellow) 
  • Mr Stepan Bogdanov (Research Associate)
  • Dr Sonia Boscolo (Research Fellow in Photonic and Optical Communication Technologies)
  • Dr Manuel Crespo (Research Fellow)
  • Dr Christopher Collins (Research Associate)
  • Dr Kim Daehyun Kim (Research Associate)
  • Dr Steven Daniels (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
  • Dr Ricardo Da Silva (Visiting Research Fellow
  • Miss Dania Ebrahim (Biomedical Engineer - KTP Associate)
  • Dr Viktor Dremin (Research Associate)
  • Dr Vladislav Dvoyrin (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Dr Diana Galiakhmetova (Research Associate)
  • Dr Gabriella Gardosi (Research Assistant)
  • Dr Vladimir Gordienko ( EPSRC Research Fellow)
  • Dr Daniel Hill (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Dr Hani Kbashi (Research Fellow)
  • Mr Rana Ahmad Bilal Khalid (Research Fellow, Marie Skladowska Curie Early Career Researcher)
  • Dr Ben King (Research Associate)
  • Dr Petro Lutsyk (Lecturer)
  • Dr Egor Manuylovich (Research Associate)
  • Dr Richard Nock (Lecturer in Electronic Engineering and Systems)
  • Dr Shabnam Noor (Research Associate)
  • Dr Vladimir Osipov (Research Fellow)
  • Mohammed Patel (Research Assistant)
  • Dr Auro Perego (Associate Professorial Research Fellow)
  • Dr Ian Phillips (Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Yaroslav Prylepskiy (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Mr Alberto Rodríguez Cuevas (Post Doctoral Research Associate)
  • Dr Alex Rozhin (Reader in Nanoscience Technology Research)
  • Dr Sergey Sergeyev (Associate Professor)
  • Ms Isha Sharma (Research Associate)
  • Dr Shakti Singh (Research Associate)
  • Dr Xuewen Shu (Research Fellow)
  • Dr Sergei Sokolovsky (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Dr Lucas Souza (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
  • Miss Sasipim Srivallapanondh (Early Stage Researcher on the EU ITN project MENTOR)
  • Dr Dmitrii Stoliarov (Research Associate)
  • Dr Stylianos Sygletos (Associate Professor)
  • Dr Mingming Tan (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
  • Dr Mohammed Umar (Research Assistant)
  • Dr Amit Yadav (Research Fellow)
  • Dr Kaiming Zhou (Senior Research Fellow, Head of AIPT Industrial Outreach Laboratory, Head of Laser Material Processing Group)

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Ms Arooj (Research Student, Early Career Researcher)
  • Ms Safiya Jasim Ali Dabwan (Research Student)
  • Ms Maria Bastamova (Research Student)
  • Ms Alice Duque Belfort De Oliveira (Research Student)
  • Mr Nelson Castro Salgado (Research Student)
  • Mr Jatindra Fartiyal (Research Student)
  • Mr Geraldo Gomes (Research Student)
  • Ms Debjani Goswami (Research Student)
  • Mr Rana Ahmad Bilal Khalid (Research Student)
  • Mr Long Hoang Nguyen (Research Student)
  • Mr Shekhar Mnit (Research Student)
  • Ms Nawal Mohamed (Research Student)
  • Ms Munira Mustafa (Research Student)
  • Mr James Stewart Walley Huges (Research Student)
  • Mr Lukman Hakim Kamarudin (Research Student)
  • Mr Vladyslav Kolbasin (Research Student)
  • Ms Dini Pratiwi (Research Student) 
  • Ms Negar Shaabani Shishavan (Research Student)
  • Mr Minji Shi (Research Student)
  • Mr Atif Syed Iqrar (Research Student)
  • Mr Wesley Davison Braga Melo (Research Student)

Professional / Technical / Administrative Staff

  • Ms Tatiana Kilina (Senior Project Manager)
  • Ms Nataliia Manuilovich (Senior Research and Education Project)
  • Ms Swaroopa Mucheli-sudhakar (Technician)
  • Eric Prins (Project Administator)
  • Ms Christiane Doering Saad (Strategic Project Implementation Manager)
  • Komal Sharma (Project Administrator)
  • Dr Kirill Tokmakov (Technician)

Visiting Researchers

  • Prof Wladek Forysiak (Visiting Professor)
  • Dr Pedro Freire (Visiting Professorial Fellow)
  • Dr Thomas Allsop (Visiting Research Fellow)
  • Dr Ricardo Da Silve (Visiting Research Fellow)
Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute

Academic and Research Staff

  • Professor Patricia Thornley (Professor, Director of EBRI)
  • Dr Jude Onwudili (Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of EBRI)
  • Prof Mirjam Röeder (Senior Research Fellow, Co-Director of EBRI)
  • Dr Zhentao Wu (Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of EBRI)
  • Dr Rawaz Ahmed (Research Associate)
  • Dr Abed Alaswad (Reader)
  • Dr Amirpiran Amiri (Senior Lecturer)
  • Ms Thea Mae Baltazar (Research Associate)
  • Dr Scott Banks (Lecturer)
  • Dr Ehsan Baniasadi (Post-Doctoral Research Associate)
  • Prof Tony Bridgwater (Professor)
  • Mr Fabian Ejim (Research Associate)
  • Mr Sina Fadaie (Research Associate)
  • Dr Alfred Fernandez-Castane (Senior Lecturer - Research Implementation)
  • Dr Romeo Jr Gilbuena (Research Fellow)
  • Dr Marta Granollers Mesa (Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head, Chemical Engineering)
  • Dr Freya Horsfield (Biomass Policy Fellow)
  • Dr Abul Hossain (Senior Lecturer)
  • Dr Longinus Ifeanyi Igbojionu (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
  • Dr Muhammad Imran (Reader)
  • Dr Lawrence Limjuco (Research Fellow)
  • Ms Marta Maso Martinez (Research Associate)
  • Mr Kazeem Ayodeji Mohammed (Research Assistant)
  • Dr Vesna Najdanovic (Senior Lecturer)
  • Dr Daniel Jozef Nowakowski (Lecturer)
  • Dr Isaac Okereke (Research Associate)
  • Dr Himanshu Patel (Research Associate)
  • Ariane Silveria Sbrice Pinto (Post-Doctoral Researcher Maxifeed)
  • Ms Paula Martin De Prado (Research Assistant in Microbiology and Bioprocessing)
  • Dr Ahmed Rezk (Senior Lecturer)
  • Mr Samuel Sogbesan (Hydrogen and BECCS)
  • Dr Joan Pauline Talubo (Early Career Researcher)
  • Dr Jalil Yesufu (Research Associate)
  • Dr Qingchun Yuan (Lecturer)
  • Ms Zeinab Zandieh (Research Associate/Research Fellow)
  • Dr Zhennan Zhu (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Professional, Technical and Administrative Staff

  • Dr Sarah Asplin (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Materials and Feedstock Analysis)
  • Mr Craig Bean(NET2 Zero Doctoral Centre Coordinator)
  • Mrs Janine Bruce-Hughes (EBRI Laboratory Manager)
  • Dr Jinesh Cherukkattu Manayil (Laboratory Technician)
  • Dr Emma Estévez (NET2 Zero Doctoral Centre Manager)
  • Mrs Rebecca Fothergill (Stakeholder Engagement Manager)
  • Ms Catriona Heaton (Supergen Stakeholder Relations Manager)
  • Mr Tim Miller (Government and Enterprise Engagement Manager – Director of Research Engagement)
  • Ms Aishwarya Nagath Menon (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Business Growth Specialist)  
  • Mr Michael Omatsola-Morgan (Industrial Project Administrator)
  • Mr Talha Bin Nadeem (Research Student)
  • Miss Rakhi Parmar (Supergen Project Manager)
  • Dr Maria Pimenta da Costa Ocampo (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Environmental and Economic Assessment)
  • Mr Durga Prasad (Project Manager)
  • Mr Saad Shaiban (Knowledge Exchange Associate)
  • Mr Sachin Solomon (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Fuel applications)
  • Mr Christopher Thomas (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Technology Design and Engineering Support)
  • Ms Irene Watkinson (Project Marketing and Communications Manager)
  • Miss Nuala Macallister (Supergen Project Coordinator)

Postgraduate Research Students

  • Mr Dan Abudu (Research Student)
  • Mr Waqar Ahmad (Research Student)
  • Mr Muhammad Nauman Ahmad Khan (Research Student)
  • Mr Adam Rashad El-Aradi (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 Czaneil Gomez (Research Student)
  • Ms Marta Maso Martinez (Research Student)
  • Mr Omar Mohammad (Research Student)
  • Mr Srigan Moharir (Research Student)
  • Mr Clyde-Theodore Nguimous Batista (Research Student)
  • Mr Prince Anthony Okoro (Research Student)
  • Ms Zeinab Samimi (Research Student)
  • Mrs Sadri Shadabi (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)
Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute

Academic and Research Staff 

  • Prof Adbul Sadka (Professor and Director of Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute)
  • Professor Jun Jie Wu (Deputy PVC Research)
  • Dr Joe Rowland Adams (Research Associate)
  • Dr Seif Allah Al Mesroul Nasri (Research Associate)
  • Dr Hosameldin Osman Abdallah Ahmed (Research Associate)
  • Prof Maia Angelova (Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Health)
  • Prof Manolya Kavakli-Thorne (Professor, Program Leader for Gamification)
  • Dr Siva Sankari Sivakaminathan (KTP Associate)

Research Students

  • Ms Michelle Ann Abhijit (Research Student)
  • Ms Stellah Linda Chonzi (Research Student)
  • Mr Saleem Khan (Research Student)
  • Mr Awais Qaisar (Research Student)
  • Ms Poonam Patil (Research Student)
  • Mx Ai Salt (Research Student)
  • Mr Dean Smith (Research Student) 

Central Department

Aston Foundation Centre

Department Members