Meet our school staff
Outstanding scholarship in innovation
Our staff are prominent experts across all facets of aerospace, mechanical and mechatronic engineering from robotics to space engineering to materials and combustion.
School leadership team
Professor Liyong Tong, Head of School
Associate Professor KC Wong, Deputy Head (Education)
Dr Agisilaos Kourmatzis, Deputy Head (Research)
Ms Kirsty Bass, School Manager
Dr Donald Dansereau, Research Education Director
Dr Li Chang, Director Postgraduate Coursework
Dr Gareth Vio, Director Undergraduate Coursework
Associate Professor Dries Verstraete, Director Engagement & Impact
Dr Nicholas Williamson, Director Learning and Teaching
Associate Professor Michael Kirkpatrick, Director Information Technology
Dr Rod Fiford , Director Student Life
Academic Staff
Professor Ben Thornber, Aerodynamics
Professor Liyong Tong, Composite and intelligent structures
Associate Professor Nicholas Lawson, Aerodynamics and optical flow measurement
Associate Professor Dries Verstraete, Aerospace design
Associate Professor KC Wong, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) design
Dr Michael Groom, Computational fluid dynamics
Dr Gareth Vio, Aeroelasticity
Dr Zihao Wang, Intelligent unmanned aircraft system (UAS)
Professor Steven Armfield, Computational fluid dynamics
Professor Julie Cairney, Microscopy and microanalysis
Professor Qing Li, Biomedical and design
Professor Xiaozhou Liao, Transmission electron microscopy
Professor Yiu-wing Mai, Advanced materials
Professor Assaad R Masri, Combustion
Professor Simon Ringer, Nanoscale science and technology
Professor Lin Ye, Composite materials
Associate Professor Matthew Cleary, Combustion
Associate Professor Ahmad Jabbarzadeh, Rheology and molecular simulation
Associate Professor Michael Kirkpatrick, Fluid mechanics
Associate Professor Niels Quack, Micro-& Nanosystems
Dr Li Chang, Advanced materials and precision manufacturing
Dr Matthew Dunn, Combustion
Dr Rodney Fiford, Human-centred design
Dr Agisilaos Kourmatzis, Multiphase flow
Dr Nicholas Williamson, Fluid mechanics
Mr Paul Briozzo, Mechanical design and manufacturing
Professor Ian Manchester, Control, optimisation, robotics
Professor Salah Sukkarieh, Field robotics
Professor Stefan Williams, Field robotics
Associate Professor Guodong Shi, Networks, control, optimisation
Dr Graham Brooker, Millimetre wave radar
Dr Mitchell Bryson, Aided inertial navigation systems, simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Dr Donald Dansereau, Robotic imaging
Dr Viorela Ila, Robotic perception, simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM)
Dr David Johnson, Field robotics
Emeritus Professor Eduardo Nebot
Emeritus Professor Grant Steven
Emeritus Professor Michael Swain
Emeritus Professor Roger Tanner
Professional staff
Ms Katharina Dittmer, Administration & Project Officer
Mr Duncan Stenger, Workshop Manager
Mr Greg Elder, Senior Technical Officer
Mr Greg Riviere, Senior Technical Officer
