Centre for Digital, Manufacturing & Design team
We advance digital manufacturing and design, transfer knowledge and technology, educate future experts, and engage industry stakeholders and partners.
Our research covers:
- advanced manufacturing techniques: creating new manufacturing processes and technologies that are more sustainable, efficient, flexible, and cost-effective
- digital twin technology: improving design and production, and enhancing understanding of complex systems, cross-sectorial needs and impact, from construction through to medical systems
- product design optimisation: developing new tools and techniques for optimising product design and to assess value
- smart design and manufacturing: integrating advanced technologies (sensors, data analytics, artificial intelligence) into the design and manufacture process
Centre Director
Deputy Directors
- Dr Bernardo Castro Dominguez, Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
- Professor Paul Shepherd, Professor of Computational Design
Academic staff
- Dr Poornika Ananth, Lecturer
- Dr Tareq Assaf, Lecturer
- Professor Maria Battarra, Professor
- Dr Sourav Chatterjee, Lecturer
- Dr Anna Chatzimichali, Senior Lecturer
- Professor John Chew, Professor
- Ricardo Codinhoto, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Jos Darling, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Daniela De Angeli, Lecturer
- Dr Elies Dekoninck, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Vimal Dhokia, Reader
- Professor Marianne Ellis Professor
- Professor Adrian Evans, Professor
- Dr Ioannis Georgilas, Lecturer
- Dr Vaggelis Giannikas, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Ollie Hanton, Lecturer
- Carmelo Herdes Moreno, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Andrew Hillis, Senior Lecturer
- Debbie Janson, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Alejandro Jimenez Rios, Lecturer
- Dr Ariadne Justi Bertolin, Lecturer
- Dr Nigel Johnston, Reader
- Professor Patrick Keogh
- Dr Wenbin Li, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Qi Liu, Lecturer
- Dr Evros Loukaides, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Rick Lupton, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Omid Maghazei, Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
- Dr James Male, Lecturer
- Dr Uriel Martinez Hernandez, Lecturer
- Professor Cathryn Mitchell, Professor
- Dr Ali Mohammadi Senior Lecturer
- Professor Sukumar Natarajan, Professor
- Dr Roger Ngwompo, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Prasad Nishtala, Reader
- Dr Min Pan, Reader
- Dr Loizos Pelecanos, Lecturer
- Dr Stephen Pennock, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Laurent Perge, Lecturer
- Professor Andrew Plummer, Professor
- Dr Shamin Sadrafshari, Lecturer
- Dr Nathan Sell, Lecturer
- Dr Erfan Shahabpoor Ardakani, Lecturer
- Dr Adwait Sharma, Lecturer
- Dr Alborz Shokrani Chaharsooghi, Reader
- Professor Manuchehr Soleimani, Professor
- Robert Watson, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Jannis Wenk, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Peter Wilson, Professor
- Dr Quanren Zeng, Lecturer
- Dr Jie Zhang, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Runan Zhang, Lecturer
- Dr Duyao Zhang, Lecturer
- Dr Shuya Zhong, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Melle Zijlstra, Lecturer
Research Associates
- Gorkem Anil Al
- Dr Ismail Hamed Ali Abuzayed
- Dr Arsham Atashi Khoei
- Dr Muhammad Basir
- Dr Emily Carey
- Dr Mandeep Dhanda
- Dr Hitesh Dommati
- Lorenzo Giunta
- Dr Boroto Hwabamungu
- Dr Rajan Jagpal
- Dr Miaomiao Liu
- Dr Ellen Marsh
- Dr Olusegun Olalere
- Dr Paul Romain
- Dr Liana Zoumpouli
Doctoral students
- Berrak Balci
- Steph Calley
- Laura Carnegie-Brown
- Jainaba Conteh
- Christopher James Deacon
- Lijia Ding
- Harrison Edokpolor
- Thibaud Ferra-Maury-Salvat
- Yongpeng He
- Dmitry Leshkov
- Kattie Little
- Elias Marchetti
- Natalia Mazancova
- Hussein Musa
- Jingbang Pan
- Maxime Pollet
- Johannes Rohwer
- Jana Sajdakova
- Malcolm Sandford
- Ellie Smallwood
- Jiong Tao
- Erkan Tur
- Max Valentine
- Yunyi Wang
Management, Specialist and Administrative
- Susan Lattanzio, Research & Industry Engagement Manager
- Cheryl Rothwell, Centre Coordinator
Technical Services
- Owen Rutter, Technical Specialist
- Dr Sajad Shokri, CIBR Lead Technician