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.

Academic team
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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

Management, specialist and administrative