Staff - Durham University

Department of Engineering

Engineering Staff

Academic Staff

Professional Support Services Staff

Research Staff

Research Postgraduates

Academic Staff

Name	Title
Professor Charles Augarde	Professor, Head of Department
Dr Iddo Amit	Assistant Professor
Dr Hamed Bahmani	Assistant Professor
Professor Claudio Balocco	Professor
Dr Huashan Bao	Assistant Professor
Dr Elizabeth Barnes	Assistant Professor
Dr Majid Bastankhah	Associate Professor
Dr. Ismail Ben Mabrouk	Assistant Professor
Dr Alessandro Borghi	Assistant Professor
Professor Toby Breckon	Professor
Dr Rui Carvalho	Assistant Professor
Dr Mujeeb U. Chaudhry	Associate Professor
Prof Yunfei Chen	Professor
Professor Will Coombs	Professor
Professor Christopher Crabtree	Professor, Director of Education
Professor Andrew Gallant	Professor, Director of EDI and Wellbeing
Dr Lian Gan	Associate Professor
Professor Philip Gaskell	Professor
Dr Nima Gerami-seresht	Assistant Professor
Dr Stefano Giani	Assistant Professor
Professor Chris Groves	Professor
Professor Simon Hogg	Professor
Professor Alton Horsfall	Professor, Director of Research
Dr Ensieh Hosseini	Assistant Professor
Dr Paul Hughes	Associate Professor
Dr Aissa Ikhlef	Associate Professor
Professor Grant Ingram	Professor
Professor Karen Johnson	Professor
Dr Rahele Kafieh	Assistant Professor
Dr Behzad Kazemtabrizi	Associate Professor
Dr Mehdi Keshavarz Hedayati	Assistant Professor
Professor Ashraf William Khir	Professor
Dr Marti Lloret-Cabot	Assistant Professor
Dr Zhiwei Ma	Assistant Professor, Research Track
Dr Roderick Mackenzie	Assistant Professor
Professor Simon Mathias	Professor
Dr Peter Matthews	Associate Professor
Dr Sravan Muguda Viswanath	Assistant Professor
Professor Ashraf Osman	Professor
Dr Bartolomeo Panto'	Assistant Professor
Dr Alexandros Petalas	Assistant Professor
Professor Michael Petty	Emeritus Professor
Professor Alan Purvis	Emeritus Professor
Professor Tony Roskilly	Professor
Professor Sana Salous	Professor, Chair of Communications Engineering
Dr Nur Sarma	Assistant Professor
Dr Mohammed Seaid	Associate Professor
Dr Mahmoud Shahbazi	Associate Professor
Dr Natasha Shirshova	Associate Professor
Professor David Sims-Williams	Professor, Director of Infrastructure
Dr Andrew Smallbone	Associate Professor
Professor Hongjian Sun	Professor
Dr Stefan Szyniszewski	Assistant Professor
Professor Peter Tavner	Emeritus Professor
Professor David Toll	Professor
Professor Jon Trevelyan	Professor
Professor Anthony Unsworth	Emeritus Professor
Dr Sergii Veremieiev	Associate Professor
Dr Oliver Vogt	Industrial tutor (PT)
Dr Qing Wang	Associate Professor
Dr Yaodong Wang	Associate Professor
Professor Jun Jie Wu	Professor
Professor Dagou Zeze	Professor
Dr Wangcheng Zhang	Assistant Professor

Support Staff

Name	Title
Dr Ruth Vater	Department Manager
Mrs Sima Amrolalaee	Research Coordinator
Mrs Rachel Simpson	Special Research Project Manager
Su Stinchcombe	Senior Research Administrator
Dr Charlotte Quarless	Learning and Teaching Manager
Ms Caroline Asling	Learning & Teaching Administrator (PT)
Ms Kelly Brown	Operations Administrator
Miss Amy Clarke	Learning and Teaching Coordinator
Miss Ruth Daglish	Learning and Teaching Administrator (maternity cover)
Miss Natalie Dent	Learning and Teaching Coordinator.
Mrs Glenda Liddle	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Mrs Karen Atkinson	Finance Manager & Travel Reporter/Approver
Mrs Jane Chilton	Finance Administrator
Mrs Linda Owens	Finance Administrator
Dr Steve Robertson	Technical Operations Manager
Mr Ian Hutchinson	Technical Manager, Electronics & Electrical
Mr Colin Wintrip	Technical Manager, Mechanical
Mr Neil Clarey	Senior Technician (Electronics)
Mr Stephen Clifford	Senior Technician (Electronics)
Mr Craig Hansford	Senior Civil/Geotechnical Engineering Technician
Dr Akram Karimian	Senior Civil/Geotechnical Engineering Technician
Ms Jacqueline Bell	Special Research Project Manager
Mr Paul Davidson	Mechanical Workshop Technician
Mr Ian Douglass	Senior Research Technician
Mr Phillip Duffy	Mechanical Workshop Technician
Mr Ian Garrett	Senior Technician (Electrical)
Miss Louise Gascoigne	Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Mr Jonathan Heslop	Senior Technician in Energy Systems
Mr Paul Jarvis	Mechanical Workshop Technician
Mrs Julie Morgan Dodds	Senior Technician (Operations/H&S)
Mr Gary Parker	Senior Technician (Thermo Laboratory)
Mr Gary Potts	Senior experimental officer
Mr Stuart Watson	Mechanical Workshop Technician
Mr Kristian Whatcott	Mechanical Workshop Technician
Dr Ioanna Maria Zougrou	Research technician
Mrs Andrea Parker	Coffee Bar (PT Wednesday Thursday & Friday)
Mrs Elizabeth Yallop	Coffee Bar (PT Monday & Tuesday)

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Ross Carnachan	Research Associate
Dr Michael Cooke	Senior Experimental Officer
Dr Ana Sofia Dias	Research Associate
Dr Paloma Dos-santos	Dr
Mr Saied El-faitori	Postgraduate Associate
Mr Tiago Gaspar	Research associate
Dr Alessandro Giampieri	Research Associate
Dr Khalid Ismail	Research Associate
Dr Yousaf Khalid	Research Associate
Miss Susmita Koley	Research Associate
Mr Christopher Lawrence	Research Associate
Dr Janie Ling-Chin	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Abdullah Malik	Assistant Professor (Research)
Mr Kingshuk Mallick	Research associate
Dr Saleh Meibodi	Research Associate
Dr Mohammadreza Mohammadi	Research Associate
Dr Ahmad Najjaran-kheirabadi	Research associate
Dr Ugochukwu Ngwaka	Research associate
Dr Sumit Roy	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Dibyendu Roy	Research Associate
Dr Shivaprasad Vijayalakshmi	Assistant Professor (Research)
Ms. Ruiqi Wang	Research Associate
Dr Richard Williams	Research Associate
Mr Xiangcou Zheng	Research associate

Research Postgraduates

Name	Title
Mr Mohamed Abdulali	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Mr. Olusegun Adeniji	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Francisco Emir Aguerrebere Gonzalez	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Alexis Aguilar-celis	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Abdulwahab Alghamdi	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Mr. Sermed Alsaadi	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Abdulrahman Alsafrani	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Abdullah Alshammari	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr Josue Alvarez-lares	Research Postgraduate – Computational Mechanics Node
Mr Samuel Armitt	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Ana Beaumont	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Mr. Adam Bickerdike	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Dax Blackhorse-hull	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Max Borrmann	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr David Brooks	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Mr Hugo Calder	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Luis Felipe Ceron-Oliver	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr Abhishek Chandramohan	Research Postgraduate – Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Wenzhi Chen	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Shi Chen	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Miss Keturah Civelek	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Ms Martha Teresa Correa-Delval	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr Benjamin Cowan	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Hangcheng Dai	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Miss Ellie Desmond	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Miss Sophie Draper	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Charles Drewer	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr Aidan Duffy	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Kevin Egan	Research Postgraduate – Bioengineering Node
Mr Ridvan Ergun	Research Postgraduate – Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Rui Fang	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Vanessa Fenlon	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Jordan Fuentes-holden	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Nathan Gavin	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Amir Ghasemi	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Grainne Gilleece	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Eduardo Enrique González Osuna	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Ms Tariro Gwandu	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Miss Siti Hamzah	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Gregorio Higuera-Gutiérrez	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Jiahao Hu	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Ms Yingjia Huang	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Miss Amy Hunt	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Markus Hussner	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Miss Sara Ismail-sutton	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Miss Hong Ji	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Xiao Jia	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Luis C. Jimenez-Diaz	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr Benedict A. H. Jones	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mrs. Akmaral Karamergenova	Research Postgraduate - Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Mr. Jacob Kay	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mrs. Arjmand Khaliq	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Xiangtao Kong	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Mr. Chunyang Lai	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Ms. Ekaterina Lgotina	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Mr. Weizhen Li	Research Postgraduate – Bioengineering Node
Mr. Jiajun Li	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Mr. Rong Lin	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Xingyu Liu	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Chang Liu	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Mr. Wanyu Lu	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Adam Marshall	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Diana Martinez-Trejo	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Esmaeel Masoudi	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Callum Mcgowan	Research Postgraduate – Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Ms Vanessa Medina-Garcia	Research Postgraduate – Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Lizbeth Sarahi Mendieta-Rodriguez	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Mr. Pedro Meza-lopez	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Ms Victoria Miles	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Miss Lauren Miller	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mrs. Zhichao Mu	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mrs. Takudzwa Mutsvairo	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Miss Jiayi Niu	Research Postgraduate – Bioengineering Node
Mr Ted O'Hare	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mrs. Margaret Ogboji	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr Rigoberto Ortega-chavez	Research Postgraduate – Fluid Mechanics Node
Mr. Thomas Parker	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Diana Coraima Pina-Gongora	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Giuliano Pretti	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Miss Lydia Robinson	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Miss Emilia Russell	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Miss Mana Saeed	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Miss Heather Sanders	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Miss Emily Settle	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Miss Sarah Sheehy	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Ryan Siddall	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Bradley Sims	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Miss Polina Stefanova	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Shixian Sun	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Yingpei Sun	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Sam John Vallier Sutcliffe	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr Huw Thomas	Research Postgraduate - Electrical Power Node
Ms Chenjue Wang	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Miss Yuzhuo Wang	Research Postgraduate - Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Mr. Enhao Wang	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Miss Anna Weatherburn	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Frederick White	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Connor Whiteford	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Cai Williams	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr Ben Woodward	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Yun Xiao	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Mr. Ransheng Xu	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Chengwei Yan	Research Postgraduate – Bioengineering Node
Mr Othman Zahid	Research Postgraduate – Communications and THz Node
Mr. Hussin Zahloul	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr Zhi Zhang	Research Postgraduate - Electrical Power Node
Mr. Xinzhuo Zhang	Research Postgraduate – Electrical Power Node
Mr. Yihan Zhang	Research Postgraduate - Computational Mechanics Node
Mr. Kun Zhang	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Mr. Yuzheng Zhang	Research Postgraduate – Bioengineering Node
Mr. Zhi Zhang	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node
Mr. Zongtai Zhang	Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node
Mr. Jian Zhou	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Ms Kaixuan Zhou	Research Postgraduate – Thermal Energy Node
Mr. Shujin Zhou	Research Postgraduate – Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Node