DYNAMICS RESEARCH GROUP - Key Persons
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- Lecturer in Dynamics
- Support Staff
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- Grant Manager for the Pipebots
- Programme Grant Manager
Aisling Cooling is the programme grant manager for the Pipebots programme grant. Aisling has worked at the University of Sheffield for over 15 years, managing various RCUK and EU funded projects. As programme manager, Aisling is responsible for the day-to-day management and administration of the project. This includes project coordination and management, budget management, reporting, event management, data management, communication and social media.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer in Dynamics
- Support Staff
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- Business Development Manager
- Business Development Manager, Laboratory for Verification & Validation ( LVV )
Charlie is the Business Development Manager for the Dynamics Research Group's new £11m Laboratory for Verification and Validation (LVV).
He is a Chartered Engineer with 17 years industrial experience, having previously held a number of technical roles with responsibility for an international customer base covering sectors such as Aerospace, Energy and Industrial Engineering.
For further details, visit the LVV page on DRG or the LVV website.
I am a doctoral candidate working on developing frameworks that combine structural simulation, digital twin virtual testing, and reinforcement learning to provide agent-based test support during systems testing for improved test outcomes.
Research Interests
My interests are decision support systems at the intersection of machine learning, structural engineering, and digital twins for improved decision-making in the energy, aircraft, infrastructure, and space industries.
https://collins-ogbodo.github.io/
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- Research Associate
- Support Staff
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- Research Associate
- Support Staff
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- Professor of Non - Linear Dynamics
- Support Staff
David Wagg was awarded his BEng degree and PhD (at the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics) from University College London. From 1998 until 2000 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre at the University of Bristol. In 2000 he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol and he became Professor there in 2008. From 2004-2009 he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. In July 2013 he moved to the University of Sheffield to take up a chair in Nonlinear Dynamics. Professor Wagg's research is focused on understanding and controlling nonlinear structural dynamics. He is currently PI for the £4.2M EPSRC funded Engineering Nonlinearity Programme Grant, which is a consortium of five universities and eight industrial partners. He has published extensively in the topic area including the book Nonlinear Vibration with Control (Springer, 2009), which is one of the first to describe using nonlinear modelling and control for structural dynamics.
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- Senior Engineering Technician
- Support Staff
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- Research Associate
- Support Staff
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- Research Project Administrator
Grace has a BA (hons) in Fine Art from Middlesex University and a MA in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). She has supported a number of research projects funded by the European Commission and the EPSRC and has several years of experience in academic administration.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Support Staff
Graeme's primary research interests are related to Nonlinear Dynamics and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). His current research on Nonlinear Dynamics focusses on developing a completely novel framework for the explanation of behaviour observed in nonlinear systems, including chaotic responses. His main focus in the area of SHM is concerned with the development of robust techniques that are capable of identifying damage in real structures, even in the face of the levels of environmental and operational variability to which these structures will be subjected. He is also interested in how uncertainty propagates through machine learning algorithms, with the focus again being on robustness for SHM. A further reseach interest is concerned with the application of adaptive population-based optimisation algorithms to real Engineering problems, with a particular focus upon Nonlinear System Identification.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Support Staff
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Support Staff
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- Professor of Structural Dynamics
- Support Staff
Keith started academic life as a theoretical physicist and came to mechanical engineering a little later; as a result, his research interests reflect a leaning towards mathematics and computation. His main focus is on the application of ideas from signal processing and machine learning to problems in structural dynamics including: nonlinear dynamics and system identification, structural health and condition monitoring and uncertainty analysis. Particular interests at the moment include Bayesian methods and population-based structural health monitoring. His initial application domain was aerospace industry, but that has widened to include civil infrastructure and energy, with a particular focus on wind energy systems at the moment
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- Head of Department, Professor of Structural Dynamics
- Support Staff
Lizzy's main research interests span the fields of structural health monitoring (SHM), machine learning and nonlinear system identification. Her specific areas of interest include the development of robust indicators for structural performance and condition and the importation of sophisticated mathematical techniques for use in the discipline of structural dynamics. Most of her research projects focus on the analysis of large datasets from monitored structures, where she employs data-driven algorithms to extract useful information. For SHM, these efforts attempt to address the problem of confounding influences - where benign changes in the measurements of structural parameters caused by the environment mask the detectability of damage.
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- Engineering Technician
- Support Staff
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- Lecturer in Dynamics
- Support Staff
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- Research Associate
- Support Staff
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- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Support Staff
Neil's research spans the topics of smart materials, vibration control, mechatronics, and machining dynamics. His work on smart materials is focusses on the development and application of semi-active devices such as magnetorheological dampers. This leads to interesting challenges in vibration control, because the device behaviour is highly nonlinear. He is also interested in the dynamics, control, and mechatronics of various dynamic systems such as self-pierce riveting machines, nuclear power control rod systems, and energy harvesting devices. Finally, he has a strong interest in machining dynamics, in particular the vibrations that arise during milling and turning. Here, his work was funded by an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, as well as a variety of EPSRC-funded projects in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. He is a co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Machining Science, and is currently the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering