IAAPS research team
We are a team of academics and researchers working across automotive, aerospace, marine, and off-highway sectors to lead innovation in propulsion and mobility.
Our research includes:
- improving the efficiency of emerging sustainable propulsion technologies through
- sustainable fuels-based propulsion
- hydrogen-based propulsion systems
- electrification and batteries
- finding ways to positively influence sustainable mobility choices
- developing new models for the physical and digital infrastructures that reduce mobility's environmental impact
- ensuring safe, responsible, and human-compatible digitalisation and virtualisation of the product development process, leading to new design philosophies for complex propulsion and mobility systems
- creating frameworks to quantify the sustainability and carbon shadows of vehicles and mobility services to advise design and production, and local, national, and global policies
Leadership
Director
- Professor Richard Burke, Professor of sustainable automotive propulsion
Deputy Directors
- Professor Sam Akehurst, Professor in advanced powertrain systems
- Dr Charles Larkin, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Xiaoze Pei, Professor in electronic and electrical engineering
- Professor Carl Sangan, Professor in mechanical engineering
Academic staff
- Professor Chris Brace, Professor
- Professor Chris Budd, Professor
- Dr Samuel Bull, Lecturer
- Dr Edward Chappell
- Dr Daniel Coren, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Fang Duan, Lecturer
- Dr Stefania Esposito, Lecturer
- Dr Antonio Jose Exposito, Lecturer
- Dr Tom Fletcher, Lecturer
- Dr Biagio Forte, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Jamie Gawith, Lecturer
- Professor Gary Lock, Professor
- Professor Timothy Mays, Professor
- Professor Peter Mott, Professor of Practice
- Professor Rob Oliver, Professor of practice
- Dr Julian Padget, Reader
- Dr Simon Pickering, Research fellow
- Dr Oliver Pountney, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Kevin Robinson, Senior Lecturer
- Brian Rutter, Senior Lecturer
- Dr James Scobie, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Aykut Tamer, Lecturer
- Dr Christopher Vagg, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Zhijin Wang, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, Professor
- Dr Michael Wilson, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Hao Yuan, Lecturer
- Dr Vincent Zeng, Lecturer
- Dr Nic Zhang, Lecturer
Research staff
Doctoral students
- Mac Geoffrey Ajaereh
- Taif Aljebory
- Nicole Barber
- Joshua Best
- Jason Boldero
- Oliver Bostock
- Mark Butcher
- Catherine Butler
- Clemence Bricker
- Chloe Cannon
- Giulio Cantini
- Lucia Catalina Burtnik Urueta
- Edison Chamba Ortiz
- Eimear Curran
- Hugh Davies
- Joe Dawe
- Pete Dyson
- Thibaud Ferra-Maury-Salvat
- Bart Filmer-Cox
- Isaac Flower
- Will Forshaw
- Adam Frey
- Alex Fritot
- Lee Gan
- Charlie Gaylard
- Ruth Gibson
- Michael Hadjipantelis
- James Harrington
- Indrek Heinmets
- Ryan Hughes
- Matthew Hutchins
- Lonox Jianqiang Huang
- Berat Kaan Firat
- Kacper Kaczmarczyk
- Eymen Kilic
- Aidan King
- Verena Kreuzer
- Dominic LaFone-Ward
- Dmitry Leshkov
- Dehao Li
- Constantinos Liagas
- Yuchun Lin
- Yuqiang Lin
- Aaron Lister
- Peilin Liu
- Sam Lockyer
- Lukas Macha
- Dan Mason
- Jac McCluskey
- Tara McGuicken
- Mai Mohamed
- Seyedmohammad (Mohammad) Mousavi
- Cosmin Mudure
- Nicolas Ostler-Baraona
- Catherine Naughtie
- Nina Patel
- Mikolaj Pernak
- Bill Phelan
- Hannah Pickard
- Lois Player
- Arash Pordel
- Katherine Porter
- Rita Prior Filipe
- Aleksandar Ribnishki
- Howard Richards
- Joshua Rogers
- Johannes Rohwer
- Edgar Romero Rahal
- Faye Sanders
- Malcom Sandford
- Vicentiu-Iulian Savu
- Laura Seminati
- Joris Simaitis
- Michael Sui
- Ellie Smallwood
- George Smith
- Matthew Smith
- Ann Song
- Sebastian Syncerz
- Anna Tassie
- Onur Tokkan
- Sarah Toy
- Connor De Trafford
- Alex Trenam
- Simon Vella
- Aaron Villoslada Rodriguez
- Immanuel Vinke
- Chandula Wanasinghe
- Hongwei Wang
- Yue Wang
- Julian Wilkinson
- Jesse Wise
- Wenkai Yan
- Gengqian Yang
- Alex Young
- Lechen Zhu