College Centre

College Deans

 

  • 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
  • Dr Elizabeth Wanner, Director of PGR Studies

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, Interim 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 Dean

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 Tony Beaumont (Visiting Teaching Fellow)
  • Dr Roy Benson (Teaching Fellow)
  • Miss Sanobar Dar (Teaching Associate)
  • Ms 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)
  • Professor Jo Lumsden (Visiting Academic Fellow)
  • Dr Ricardo Melo Czekster (Lecturer)
  • Dr Nitin Naik (Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity)
  • Mrs Megan Robertson (E-Learning Specialist)
  • Dr Debaleena Roy (Teaching Fellow)
  • Mr Agawaid Saleen (Laboratory Tutor)
  • 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)
  • Ms Chloé Ann Alsop (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)
  • Ms Sanobar Dar (Research Student)
  • Mr John Connor Rego Hamilton (Research Student)
  • Mr Gatis Jurkans (Research Student)
  • Mr Dirichukwu Goodluck Oguzie (Research Student)
  • Mr Michael George Pritchard (Research Student)
  • Mr Rafael Oliveira Ribeiro (Research Student)
  • Mr Kieran Saunders (Research Student)
  • Mr Jacob Sharp (Research Student)
  • Miss Anna Stefani (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 Bridget Tang (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)
    • Mr Fabio Barollo (Postgraduate Research Student)
    • Mr Mehul Chauhan (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 Simon Mwangi (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)
      • Miss Renia Gkountiou (Technician)
      • Mr Paul Gretton (Senior Projects Manager)
      • Dr Jon Hewitt (Teaching Fellow)
      • Dr Jisun Kim (Lecturer in Product Design)
      • Dr Richard Lilington (Senior Teaching Fellow)
      • Ms Laura Scotland (Business Development Manager)
      • Mr Ian Storer (Senior Teaching Fellow)

      School of Infrastructure and Built Environment

      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 Sina Fadaie Sestelani (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

      • 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)
      • Mr Filipe Goncalves Sarmento (Research Student)
      • Mrs Yixuan Shi (Research Student)
      • Miss Melissa Venegas (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 Wladek Forysiak (Professor in Photonics, AIPT Deputy Director)
      • Professor Richard Hogg (Professor of Photonics)
      • 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 Natalia Bazieva (Visiting Research Fellow)
      • Dr David Benton (Senior Research Fellow)
      • Dr Zijun Bian (Research Associate)
      • Dr Aisha Bibi (Research Associate)
      • Dr Sun Bing (Marie Curie Research Fellow) 
      • 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 Pedro Freire De Carvalho Souza (Machine Learning Co-Leader)
      • 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 Tatjana Gric (Visiting 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 Nand Kishor Meena (Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow)
      • Dr Yiming Li (Postdoctoral 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 Karina Nurlybayeva (Lab Demonstrator)
      • Dr Nur Alia Sheh Omar (Research Fellow)
      • Dr Vladimir Osipov (Research Fellow)
      • Mohammed Patel (Research Assistant)
      • Mr Mohammed Patel (Research Associate)
      • Dr Auro Perego (Royal Academy of Engineering 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 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 Hong Pham Thi (Research Fellow)
      • 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)

      Professional / Technical / Administrative Staff

      • Ms Tatiana Kilina (Research Impact and Communication Manager)
      • Ms Nataliia Manuilovich (Project Manager)
      • Ms Miriam Messiha (EU DN Postdigital Plus Project Manager )
      • Ms Swaroopa Mucheli-sudhakar (Technician)
      • Ms Christiane Doering Saad (Strategic Project Implementation Manager)
      • Dr Kirill Tokmakov (Technician)
      • Ms Karola Woods (Project Manager)

      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 Stepan Bogdanov (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)
      • 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)
      Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute

      Academic and Research Staff

      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)  
      • Mrs Miriam Messiha (Project Manager)
      • Mr Michael Omatsola-Morgan (Industrial Project Administrator)
      • 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)
      • Dr Mark Smith (Knowledge Exchange Associate - Biochar Clean Tech)
      • 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) 

      Research Students

      • Ms Michelle Ann Abhijit (Research Student)
      • Ms Stellah Linda Chonzi (Research Student)
      • Mr Alfredo Somoza Moreno (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