Staff directory - School of Engineering & Applied Science

EAS School Deans

Professor Sarah Hainsworth OBE (Executive Dean)
Professor Tony Clark (Deputy Dean)
Dr Kate Sugden (Deputy Dean)
Dr Sukhvinder Phull - (Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programmes)
Dr Aniko Ekart (Associate Dean, Postgraduate Programmes)
Dr Gillian Knight (Associate Dean for Learning & Teaching)
Professor Patricia Thornley (Associate Dean for Research)
Dr Harry Goldingay (Associate Dean, Degree Apprenticeship Programmes)

Nadia Bareford (Executive Assistant to Professor Sarah Hainsworth)
Anastasia Raw (PA to School Executive Team)

Strategy and Administration

Ms Aman Gill (Head of Business, Strategy and Administration)
Mrs Donna Wheat (Quality Officer)
Mr David Santoro (Quality Co-ordinator)
Ms Helen Ordidge (Student Engagement Officer)
Tejinder Malhi (School Finance Partner)
Ms Joanne Elsmore (School HR Business Partner)
Katy Lewis (Marketing Manager)
Alice Coleman (Marketing Officer)
Purbani Chakrabarti (Strategic Funding Manager)

Taught Programmes Team

Miss Helen Gilfoyle (Assessment Officer)
Miss Victoria Bond (Taught Programmes Team Leader)
Mrs Diane Markley (Deputy Taught Programmes Team Leader)
Mrs Caroline O'Hara (Foundation Programme Administrator)
Ms Margaret Ebanks (Taught Programmes Administrator)
Mrs Carol Browne (Taught Programmes Administrator)
Mr Michael Northwood(Taught Programmes Administrator)
Mr Fred Gallagher (Coursework Administrator)
Mrs Julie Bodenham (Receptionist)

Academic & Research Team

Mrs Helen Yard (Academic & Research Administrator - Team Leader)
Dr Emma Estevez (Research Institutes Administration - Team Leader)
Mrs Ranjit Judge (Departmental Administration - Team Leader)
Mrs Amelia Beckford (Research Institutes Administrator)
Mrs Kanchan Patel (Mathematics/Computer Science Administrator)
Miss Jo Holding (MED/ESM Administrator)
Mrs Charmaine Senior (CEAC/EEPE Administrator)
Mr John Leigh (Research Institutes Administrator)

Aston Professional Education Centre (APEC) Team

Mrs Carol Winder (Professional Engineering Manager)
Mr Adhiraj Banerjee (Professional Engineering Administrator)
Ms Sarah Craney (Professional Engineering Administrator)
Ms Jo Russell (Professional Engineering Administrator)
Mrs Anita Suman (Professional Engineering Administrator)

Department Members

Dr Sotos Generalis (Head of Mathematics, Reader)
Dr Roberto Alamino (Lecturer/ Programme Director for MSc Data Analytics)
Dr Amit K Chattopadhyay (Reader)
Dr Jens Christian Claussen (Lecturer)
Dr William Cox (Senior Lecturer)
Mr Thomas Harvey-Ball (Deputy Head of Mathematics)
Dr Randa Herzallah (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Sudhir Jain (Senior Teaching Fellow)
Dr Jason Laurie (Lecturer)
Dr Bo Li (Research Fellow)
Mr Adam Lowe (Research Fellow)
Dr Jort Van Mourik (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Juan Neirotti (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Dmitry Nerukh (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Laura Rebollo-Neira (Lecturer)
Mrs Zahra Rezaei (Teaching Fellow)
Professor David Saad
Dr Michael Stich (Visiting Lecturer)
Dr WeiEn Tan (Teaching Fellow/Single Honours Programme Director)
Dr Nanxin Wei (Research Fellow)
Dr Yizhi Xu (Research Fellow)
Dr Igor V Yurkevich (Reader)

Administration Team

Mr Michael Northwood (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
Mrs Kanchan Patel (Departmental Administrator)

Department Members

Dr Jo Lumsden (Head of Computer Science, Reader & Director of the Aston Interactive Media (AIM) Lab)
Dr Abu Ahmed (Research Fellow)
Mr Julien Barney (Business Manager)
Dr Lucy Bastin (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Anthony Beaumont (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Nelly Bencomo (Lecturer)
Dr Ulysses Bernardet (Lecturer)
Dr Sherazade Boussag (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Christopher Buckingham (Senior Lecturer)
Mr Samuel Burrows (Industry Club Associate)
Dr Felipe Campelo (Lecturer)
Dr Darren Chitty
Dr Maria Chli (Senior Lecturer, Industrial Partnership Fellow
Mr Andrew Garfield Darby (Research Associate)
Dr Aniko Ekart (Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Programme Director)
Dr David Evans (Sessional Lecturer)
Mr Vangelis Fafoutis (Laboratory Tutor)
Dr Diego Faria (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Kaniz Fatema (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Antonio Garcia-Dominguez (Lecturer)
Dr Alexandros Giagkos (Lecturer)
Dr Harry Goldingay (Senior Lecturer, Work-Based Undergraduate Programme Director)
Dr Paul Grace (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Lilit Hakobyan (Teaching Fellow & Post Doc Research Assistant)
Katrina Jones (Teaching & Research)
Dr Stuart Kerrigan (Teaching Fellow)
Ms Mahmuda Khanom (Lead Project Manager)
Dr Michal Konecny (Lecturer, Placement Tutor)
Mr Richard Lee (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Peter Lewis (Lecturer)
Dr Victoria Lush
Dr Luis Manso (Lecturer)
Dr Muhidin Mohamed
Dr Geoffrey Steward Morrison (Lecturer)
Dr Sarah Mount (Technical lead)
Professor Nitin Naik (Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity)
Mr Stephen Owen (Teaching Fellow)
Mrs Rakhi Parmar (Marketing and Administration)
Mr Brendan Poynton (Business Development Manager)
Dr Nicholas Powell (Undergraduate Programme Director)
Dr Roberto Puch-Solis (Senior Lecturer)
Ms Alison Richards (Head Coach)
Mrs Megan Robertson (E-Learning Specialist)
Mr Agawaid Saleen (Laboratory Tutor)
Professor Peter Sawyer
Ms Abinaya Sowriraghavan (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Alistair Sutcliffe (Research Fellow)
Dr Nur Nagihan Tuna Cengel (Teaching HCI Fellow)
Dr George Vogiatzis (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Hai Wang (Lecturer)
Dr Hongxia Wang (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Philip Weber
Dr Abraham Weinberg (Teaching Fellow)
Dr S ylvia Wong (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Hai (Albert) Zhuge (Professor)

Administration Team

Mrs Carol Browne (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
Mrs Kanchan Patel (Departmental Administrator)

Department Members

Professor Mujib Rahman (Head of Civil Engineering, Professor)
Dr Haris Alexakis (Lecturer)
Dr Nii Ankrah (Senior Lecturer, Programme Director of BSc, CPM & QS)
Dr Maxwell Fordjour Antwi Afari (Lecturer)
Professor Denis Chamberlain, (Part-Time Teaching Fellow)
Dr John Elgy (Senior Lecturer)
Shadi Fathi (Sessional Lecturer)
Dr Chris Hartley (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Peter Hedges (Senior Lecturer)
Mr Trevor Hewings (Technician)
Dr Tala Kasim (Lecturer)
Professor Roger Kettle (Emeritus Professor)
Dr Moura Mehravar (Lecturer)
Eman Omairey (Sessional Lecturer)
Dr Kenneth Park (Reader)
Dr Behzad Rahimzadeh ( RAEng Visiting Professor)
Dr Massud Sadegzadeh (Sessional Lecturer)
Dr Kiran Tota-Maharaj (Reader, Programme Director of BEng Civil)
Dr Gayan Wedawatta (Senior Lecturer, Deputy Programme Director of BSc, CPM & QS)
Dr Yuqing Zhang (Senior Lecturer, Deputy Programme Director of BEng Civil)

Department Members

Professor Edward Sweeney (Head of Engineering Systems & Supply Chain Management, Professor)
Ms Jana Alkubaisy (Interim Researcher and Project Co-ordinator)
Mr Richard Atkinson (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Muhammad Azmat (Azi) (Lecturer)
Dr Jack Carnell (Senior Teaching Fellow)
Mr David Carpenter (Programme Co-ordinator, Tutor Director)
Mrs Shirley Hodson-Walker (Project Manager)
Mr Constant Iannacci (Academic Support Officer, Programme Director)
Mr Barry Jones (Teaching Fellow)
Mrs Karen Jones (Lecturer, Programme Director)
Mr Blane Judd (Teaching Fellow)
Mr David Leach (Senior Teaching Fellow, Programme Director)
Dr Marin Marinov (Lecturer)
Dr Aristides Matopoulos (Reader and Deputy Head of Department)
Mr Jamie Pratt (Business Engagement Manager)
Dr Brian Price (Lecturer)
Dr Lucy Rackliff (Senior Teaching Fellow, Programme Director)
Dr Shan Rajegopal (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Yasmine Sabri (Lecturer, Programme Director)
Dr James Stone (Academic Support Officer)
Mr Sunil Vara (Business Engagement Manager)
Dr John White (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Qiang Wu (Lecturer)
Dr Dimitra Kalaitzi (Lecturer)
Mr Dewi Lloyd (Teaching Fellow)

Administration Team

Ms Margaret Ebanks (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
Mrs Charmaine Senior (Departmental Administrator)

Department Members

Professor Paul Topham (Head of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry)
Dr Amirpiran Amiri (Lecturer)
Mr David Aveston (Chemical Services Technician)
Dr Paula Blanco Sanchez (Lecturer)
Dr Katie Chong (Lecturer)
Dr Matthew Derry (Lecturer)
Dr Robert Evans (Senior Lecturer)
Alfred Fernandez-Castane (Lecturer)
Dr Val Franklin (Contract Research Fellow)
Dr Marta Granollers Mesa (Lecturer)
Dr Gareth Griffiths (Lecturer)
James Hammerton (Laboratory Technician)
Dr Fiona Lydon (Research Fellow)
Dr Anisa Mahomed (Lecturer)
Dr Aisling Mann (Research Fellow)
Dr Vesna Najdanovic (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Daniel Jozef Nowakowski (Lecturer / EBRI Laboratories Manager)
Dr Jude Onwudili(Senior Lecturer)
Dr Amin Osatiashtiani (Lecturer)
Dr Sukhvinder (Suki) Phull (Senior Teaching Fellow, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education)
Dr Andrew Sutherland (Reader)
Dr Paul Tack (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Eirini Theodosiou (Lecturer)
Professor Brian Tighe (Professor)
Dr Petra Van Koningsbruggen (Lecturer)
Dr Zoran Visak (Lecturer)
Dr Dave Walton (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Jiawei Wang (Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Group)
Dr Stephen Worrall (Lecturer)
Dr Zhentao Wu (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Yang Yang (Lecturer)
Dr Xi Yu (Lecturer)
Dr Qing Yuan (Lecturer)

Administration Team

Mrs Charmaine Senior (Departmental Administrator)
Ms Lucy Williams (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)

Department Members

Dr Laura Leslie (Head of Mechanical Engineering and Design, Reader)
Mr Shammi Adatia (Technician)
Dr Abed Alaswad (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Tabbi Wilberforce Awotwe (Teaching Fellow)
Professor Richard Booth (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Christian Broadway (Teaching Assistant)
Dr Lyndon Buck (Senior Teaching Fellow)
Mr Sam Davey (Modelshop and Makerspace Technician)
Mr Subodh Deshmukh (Honorary Professor)
Mr Amarjit Dhugga (Technician)
Mr James Duggins (Technician)
Dr Antonio Fratini (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Patrick Geoghegan (Lecturer)
Mr Stuart Hallard (Technician)
Mr Diarmuid Hehir (Apprentice Technician)
Mr Jon Hewitt (Teaching Fellow)
Professor William Holderbaum (Professor)
Mr Craig Holgate (Workshop Technician)
Dr Abul Hossain (Lecturer)
Dr Muhammad Imran (Lecturer)
Dr Ali Jabran (Lecturer)
Dr Yu Jia (Senior Lecturer)
Mr Luke Jones (Workshop Technician)
Dr Sarah Junaid (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Ashok Kochhar (Emeritus Professor)
Mr Reece Lillie (Technician)
Dr Wei Liu (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Xianghong Ma (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Igor Meglinski (Professor)
Mrs (Fatemeh) Mahvash Miri (Technician)
Dr Surej Mouli (Lecturer)
Mr Dave Palmer (Technician)
Professor John Penny (Emeritus Professor)
Dr Mike Peters (Lecturer)
Mr Tom Poland (Apprentice Technician)
Dr Mark Prince (Senior Lecturer)
Dr Ahmed Rezk (Lecturer)
Dr Jayme Rossiter (Teaching Fellow)
Mr Michael Rowley (Technician)
Dr Vikas Sharma (Research Associate)
Mr David Smith (Teaching Fellow)
Dr José Ricardo Sodré (Reader, Deputy Head)
Mr Jean-Baptiste Souppez (Senior Teaching Fellow)
Dr Greg Swadener (Lecturer)
Ms Xiaoli Tang (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Mr Kanthan Theivendran (Honorary Professor)
Dr Gareth Thomson (Reader)
Mr Joseph Topps (Teaching Fellow)
Dr David Upton (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Timothy Whitehead (Senior Lecturer)
Professor Mike Wood (Industrial Chair)
Dr Yuchun Xu (Chair)
Dr Ming Zhang (Research Fellow)

Administration Team

Mr Michael Northwood (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
Mrs Joanne Reid (Departmental Administrator)

Department Members

Dr Paul Harper (Head of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Reader)
Mr Muhammad Abbas (Technician)
Professor Ian Bennion (Emeritus Professor)
Dr Maurizio Catucci (Senior Teaching Fellow)
Professor Wen-Ping Cao (Professor)
Mr Daniel Day (Apprentice Technician)
Professor Nick Doran (Professor)
Professor Andrew Ellis (Professor)
Professor Stephen Ferguson (Visiting Professor)
Professor Wladek Forysiak (Senior Lecturer in Applied Physics)
Mr Saqlain Hussain (Apprentice Technician)
Dr Petro Lutsyk (Lecturer)
Dr Richard Martin (Chair)
Miss Swaroopa Mucheli-Sudhakar (AIPT Technician)
Dr Richard Nock (Lecturer)
Dr Ian Phillips (Teaching Fellow)
Mr John Reeves (Electronics Technician)
Mr Richard Reeves (Electronics & Computer Technician)
Dr Alex Rozhin (Senior Lecturer – Nanoscience Technology Research)
Professor Jaspal Sagoo (Visiting Professor
Dr Sayah O. Saied (Visiting Research Fellow)
Dr Sergey Sergeyev (Associate Professorial Research Fellow, AIPT)
Dr Baogul Shi (Visiting Research Fellow)
Professor John Sullivan (Emeritus Professor)
Professor Misha Sumetsky (Professor)
Dr Stylianos Sygletos (Associate Professorial Research Fellow, AIPT)
Dr Zuoyin Tang (Lecturer, Director of MSc Programmes)
Mr Paul Titmus (Technician)
Professor Sergei Turitsyn (Professor, Director of the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies)
Dr Elena Turitsyna (Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Programmes)
Professor David Webb (Professor, Deputy Director of the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies)
Mr Gary Williams (Apprentice Technician)
Dr John Williams (Reader)
Dr Kaiming Zhou (Senior Research Fellow)

Administration Team

Ms Margaret Ebanks (Undergraduate Taught Programme Administrator)
Mrs Kanchan Patel (Departmental Administrator)

Dr Darren Campbell (Head of Aston Foundation Centre, Teaching Fellow)
Dr Sarah Alexander (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Rebecca Broadbent (Teaching Fellow)
Mr Tom Davenport (Teaching Fellow)
Ms Debjani Goswami (Teaching Fellow)
Dr Amy Patten (Teaching Fellow)
Mr John Steane (Teaching Fellow)

Management Team

Mr Bill Glew(Director of APEC MSc Programmes)
Mr Stephen Luke (Director of APEC FD/CPD Programmes)
Mrs Carol Winder (Professional Engineering Manager)

Administration Team

Miss Jo Russell (Professional Engineering Administrator)
Mrs Anita Suman (Professional Engineering Administrator)
Miss Agnes Varadi (Professional Engineering Administrator)
Mrs Carol Winder (Professional Engineering Manager)
Mr Adhiraj Banerjee (Professional Engineering Administrator)

Mrs Joanne Reid (Departmental Administrator)

Supervisors

Mr Jeff Barton
Dr Malcolm Booth
Dr Nagi Fahmi
Dr Romani Fahmi
Mr Ismail Farhan
Mr Alan Fitzgerald
Mr Bill Glew
Dr Bee Hun Tan
Graeme Hall
Alan Higginson
Mr William Hung
Mr Khadim Hussain
Dr Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson
Mr Stephen Jones
Mr Jonathan Ling
Mr Alan Loader
Mr Vincent Malala
Dr Barry Mills
Dr Trevor Oliver
Prof John Penny
Dr Mike Peters
Richard Poole
Mr Brian Price
Mr Les Roome
Mr David Smith
Dr Ziming Song
Dr Peter Theobald
Mr Graham Vanhouse
Ms Elaine Walsh
Prof Mike Wood

Academic Staff

Technical Staff

Mr Paul Titmus

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