Engineering staff directory
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Dr Richard Cornish
Senior Lecturer
Dr Richard Cornish is an Automotive Engineer with a wide experience of automotive research and development, especially developing test methods and models to capture new practical knowledge and theoretical insights. His areas of expertise include modelling and simulation, test, measurement, and product perception. His c...
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Dr Mario de Oliveira
Interim Deputy Head of Engineering
Dr Mario de Oliveira is Interim Deputy Head of Engineering in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University. He has extensive cross-disciplinarily research and teaching experience across Computing, Engineering and Technology. Mario’s knowledge and expertise are across boundaries...
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Dr Adnan Fazal
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Dr Adnan Fazal received his first formal qualification in engineering (HNC/HND Diploma) from the Polytechnic Institute in his home town Swat (Pakistan) and followed this with an apprenticeship in industry. Adnan pursued his higher education in the UK, completing a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in engineering at...
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Florimond Gueniat
Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering and Course Leader for MSc Automotive Engineering
Florimond Guéniat has a PhD in fluid mechanics and computer science from Univ. Paris Sud. He then spent two years in the Department of Mathematics, at Florida State University researching on the control of fluid flows. Before joining BCU, he also spent two more years in the department of Mechanical Engineering at...
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Dr Javad Hashempour
Senior Lecturer in Fire Engineering – Course Lead
Dr Hashempour is a senior lecturer in Fire Engineering and the Course Lead in the College of Built Environment. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, USA, from 2016 to 2018, following the award of his PhD in...
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Tony Hayward
Course Leader for Mechanical Engineering.
Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Aided Manufacture PowerInspect Power Shape Power Mill CATIA SolidWorks Power Mill
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Dr Olusegun Ilori
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Olusegun received his PhD (Applied Thermal Fluid Sciences and Engineering Simulation) from University of Leeds after a successful viva at the prestigious Osney Thermofluids Lab (now Oxford Thermofluid Institute), University of Oxford. He has an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) and...
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Jon Isaacs
Chartered Engineer and Technical Manager
Jon is a Chartered Engineer, Technical Manager and Lecturer at Birmingham City University. He leads a team of engineers and technicians in delivering high-quality teaching and research outcomes. He has over 30 years of experience in engineering design, build, and commissioning of industrial and special purpose automation...
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Professor Michal Krzyzanowski
Professor of Engineering and Materials Science
After obtaining a degree in physics, Michal developed his academic career in materials science and engineering (PhD 1988; DSc 1996) and was appointed at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (Poland). Since 1998, his research work was mainly associated with multidisciplinary Institute for Microstructural and...
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Jens Lahr
Senior Lecturer for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering
Jens is a senior lecturer for BEng/MEng Automotive and BEng/MEng Mechanical Engineering . His teaching includes the subjects of Finite Element Analysis, Structural Analysis and Powertrain Performance. He helps and supports practice-based learning (CDIO). He is also the Course Leader for Automotive Engineering and...