Our Staff
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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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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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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...
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Laura Leyland
Interim Head of Engineering
Laura Leyland is Interim Head of Engineering and has been innovating in engineering education for over 10 years, teaching materials based modules and practical project focussed delivery with a specific interest in developing humanitarian engineering. This module delivery incorporates the Engineering for People Challenge from...
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Dr. Morteza Mohammadzaheri
Associate Professor in Mechatronics
Morteza Mohammadzaheri received his PhD in Intelligent Control Systems from the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia, in February 2011. Following PhD graduation, he has served three and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow and more than ten years as a faculty member in the areas of Mechanical and...
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Mark Ovinis
Senior Lecturer in Mechatronics
Mark Ovinis is a Senior Lecturer in Mechatronics at the Department of Engineering. He joined BCU in 2022 and was previously a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He received his PhD from Loughborough University, UK, his MEng in from Texas A&M University, USA and his BEng from Universiti Teknologi,...