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The School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CME) comprises of a multi-disciplinary team from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Each discipline hosts experienced researchers and lecturers from a variety of fields, offering opportunities to learn from and collaborate with leaders from across the engineering world.

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School leadership team

Name	Title
Professor Ramesh Narayanaswamy	Head of School
Associate Professor Ranjan Sarukkalige	Deputy Head of School
Ms Chelsea Little	School Business Manager
Ms Kerri Bland	Director, Learning and Teaching
Dr Nima Nadim	Director, Graduate Research
Dr Hilde van der Vyver	Director, Diversity Inclusion and Belonging
Professor Abhijit Mukherjee	Discipline Lead, Civil Engineering
Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Discipline Lead, Mechanical Engineering
Dr Lei Cui	Discipline Lead, Mechatronic Engineering

Discipline leads

Name	Title
Dr Lei Cui	Mechatronic Engineering
Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Mechanical Engineering
Professor Abhijit Mukherjee	Civil Engineering

Course coordinators

Name	Title
Ms Kerri Bland	Civil and Construction Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Dr Lei Cui	Mechatronic Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Associate Professor Ian Davies	Mechanical Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Dr Chris Ford	Mechanical Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Dr Julien Cisonni	Mechanical Engineering Major (M ProEng)
Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Industrial and Systems Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Professor Prabir Sarker	Civil Engineering Major (M ProEng)
Professor Andrew Whyte	Master of Engineering Management

Directors of research centres and groups

Name	Title
Professor Wensu Chen	Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Professor Hong Hao	Founding Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Professor Michele John	Director, Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG)

Academic staff – civil engineering

Name	Title
Dr Hayder Hasan Abdullah	Lecturer \| Geotechnical Engineering
Dr Rajab Abousnina	Lecturer
Dr Mizan Ahmed	Senior Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Professor Faisal Anwar	Professor \| Water Engineering
Ms Kerri Bland	Senior Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Associate Professor Amin Chegenizadeh	Associate Professor \| Geotechnical Engineering
Professor Wensu Chen	Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Dr Liuliang Cui	Research Associate
Dr Navdeep Dhami	Senior Lecturer
Dr Anant Dubey	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Professor Hong Hao	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Structural Engineering
Mr Shaun Holmes	Lecturer
Dr Andrew Lacey	Senior Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Professor Jun Li	Professor \| Structural Engineering
Professor Peter Love	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Construction Management
Dr Subhra Majhi	Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Professor Abhijit Mukherjee	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Structural Engineering
Dr Raja Murugan	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Navid Nikraz	Senior Lecturer \| Construction Management
Dr Zhen Peng	Senior Research Fellow \| Structural Engineering
Professor Prabir Sarker	Professor \| Structural Engineering
Associate Professor Ranjan Sarukkalige	Associate Professor \| Water Engineering
Ms Anna Scantlebury	Lecturer
Professor Mohamed Shahin	Professor \| Geotechnical Engineering
Professor Faiz Shaikh	Professor \| Structural Engineering
Dr Sriskanthan Srisangeerthanan	Lecturer
Dr Stephen Urquhart	Lecturer \| Construction Management
Dr Johan Vandamme	Lecturer \| Water Engineering
Dr Arun K Vuppaladadiyam	Lecturer
Dr Chen Wang	Lecturer \| Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Andrew Whyte	Professor \| Construction Management
Associate Professor Xihong Zhang	Associate Professor \| Structural Engineering

Academic staff – mechanical engineering

Name	Title
Dr Raju Ahamed	Lecturer
Dr Azma Putra Azis	Lecturer
Professor Tilak Chandratilleke	Professor \| Heat Transfer, Curved channel Flows, Electronic Cooling
Dr Julien Cisonni	Senior Lecturer \| Fluid Mechanics
Associate Professor Ian Davies	Associate Professor \| Composite Materials, Solid Mechanics
Ms Sonya Derry	Lecturer \| Noise and sustainability
Dr Rahul Dhari	Research Associate
Associate Professor Roger Dong	Associate Professor \| Polymers and Composite Materials
Associate Professor Jonathan Dong	Associate Professor \| Materials and Finite Element Analysis
Dr Chris Ford	Senior Lecturer \| Applied Thermodynamics and Mechanical Components
Dr Apurv Kumar	Senior Lecturer
Professor Chunsheng Lu	Professor \| Solid Mechanics
Dr Ilyas Mazhar	Lecturer \| Reliability and Lifecycle Assessment
Associate Professor Kristoffer McKee	Associate Professor \| Vibration Condition Monitoring
Dr Nima Nadim	Senior Lecturer \| Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Professor Ramesh Narayanaswamy	Professor \| Heat Transfer
Ms Arti Pillai	Lecturer
Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Professor \| Tribology
Dr Alokesh Pramanik	Senior Lecturer \| Manufacturing
Ms Priya Vishnupriya	Senior Lecturer
Dr Hilde van der Vyver	Senior Lecturer \| Mechanics of Machines
Mr Phil Wharrie	Lecturer \| Professional Engineering Practice
Dr Marcin Wolski	Senior Lecturer \| Tribology

Academic staff – mechatronic engineering

Name	Title
Dr Nasrin Afsarimanesh	Senior Lecturer \| Sensors, Smart Sensing Systems and Biomedical Engineering
Dr Lei Cui	Senior Lecturer \| Robotic Manipulation and Mechanism and Robot Design
Mr Tristan Davies	Associate Lecturer
Professor Khac Duc Do	Professor \| Systems and Control
Dr Masood Khan	Senior Lecturer \| Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Robotics
Associate Professor Fabrizio Padula	Associate Professor \| Automatic Control
Professor Jonathan Paxman	Professor \| Control Systems; Robotics; Space systems Engineering
Dr Tomasz Woloszynski	Senior Lecturer \| Artificial Intelligence, Control and Tribology

Academic staff – sustainable engineering group

Name	Title
Professor Wahidul Biswas	Professor
Dr Anulipt Chandan	Lecturer
Professor Michele John	Professor
Dr Augustine Ntiamoah	Research Associate

Emeritus Professors

Name	Title
Professor Ian Howard	Emeritus Professor \| Mechanical Engineering
Professor Tony Lucey	John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor \| Mechanical Engineering
Professor Hamid Nikraz	Emeritus Professor \| Civil Engineering
Professor Vijaya Rangan	Emeritus Professor \| Civil Engineering
Professor Gwidon Stachowiak	Emeritus Professor \| Mechanical Engineering

Professional staff: operational

Name	Title
Ms Cheryl Cheng	Administrative Officer
Ms Anna Efthimiou	School Operations Coordinator
Ms Chelsea Little	School Business Manager

Professional staff: teaching support

Name	Title
Ms Ella Francisco	Support Officer, Learning & Teaching
Ms Cheryl Ip	Planning Coordinator, Learning & Teaching
Ms Ceciliya Jonson	Support Officer, Learning & Teaching

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