SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES RAeS Aerodynamics Specialist Group AERODYNAMICS TOOLS AND METHODS IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN MONDAY 14 & TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 – LONDON PROFESSOR JONATHAN COOPER FRAeS, PRESIDENT, in 1987 and joined the Aerodynamics Department at ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. He was Jonathan Cooper is the Airbus Royal Academy of a QinetiQ Approved Technical Authority responsible Engineering Sir George White Professor of Aerospace for the aerodynamics clearance of aircraft modified to Engineering at the University of Bristol. He was educated accommodate trials or upgrade equipment and became a at Cheltenham Bournside School, and then obtained a BSc QinetiQ Technical Fellow in 2008. He is currently Professor in Engineering Mathematics and a PhD in Aeronautical of Engineering at UHI and holds a personal Chair as Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of Professor of Experimental and Applied Aerodynamics. London. He worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough, for three He is Chair of the RAeS Aerodynamics Specialist Group years before joining the University of Manchester in October and is a Visiting Professor at Zhengzhou University of 1989 as a ‘new-blood’ lecturer. Prof Cooper spent 18 years Aeronautics and at Changsha University of Science of there, becoming the last Head of School of the Manchester Technology, both in China. School of Engineering. Following a brief spell as Professor of Aerostructures and Aeroelasticity at the University of 1) SCOTT MORTON, CREATE AIR VEHICLES PROJECT Liverpool, in February 2012 Prof Cooper moved to the MANAGER, US ARMY Airbus sponsored Sir George White Chair in Aerospace Dr. Scott Morton, a Fellow of the RAeS, manages the Air Engineering at the University of Bristol and was awarded a Vehicles component of the US DoD HPCMP CREATE Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in 2013. Program. The project, CREATE-AV, produces a suite of three major products, ADAPT, Helios, and Kestrel, delivering Prof Cooper has an international reputation in the fields of capabilities to the U.S. Defense Aerospace Industry in aeroelasticity, loads and structural dynamics, has published response to prioritized needs of the U.S. Armed Services. over 400 technical papers in journals and conferences, and is the co-author of the Wiley text book “Introduction to He received his BS from Parks College in 1985, his MS and Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads”. Over the past 30 years PhD from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1989 he has worked closely with industry to develop solutions and 1996. He has specialised in the areas of high AOA that enable aircraft designs to be more fuel efficient aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, and computational stability and environmentally friendly through exploitation of the and control in his 34-year career. interactions between the airflow and aircraft structures. 2.1) LUÍS TRINDADE, DESIGN ENGINEER,UNIVERSITY Jonathan Cooper has been involved in a wide range of RAeS OF BEIRA INTERIOR activities. He was elected to the RAeS Council in 2013 Luís G. Trindade has a Master Degree in Aeronautical and has been chair of the Professional Standards Board, Engineering by the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. As a member of the Structures & Materials and Corporate passionate for aviation, his background is Simulation studies Accreditation Committees and an Associate Editor of within his academic record, where he developed several the Aeronautical Journal. He has also been a committee activities and integrated a project for the development and member of the Manchester and Bristol Branches. Prof design of a new aircraft. He attended the Modelling and Cooper is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Simulation of Air Vehicles course at Cranfield University, the Royal Aeronautical Sociery and the American Institute England and the Safety and Security course in the of Aeronautical and Astronautics (AIAA) and has been a Portuguese Air Force. He is also certified in Part M, Part Chartered Engineer for over 25 years. He is President of the 145 and Human Factors. He is currently a trainee for Design RAeS for 2019 – 2020. Engineer (Avionics Team) in OGMA – Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal S.A. PROFESSOR ANDREW RAE FRAeS, PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND 2.2) NIGEL TAYLOR, CAPABILITY LEADER, ISLANDS AERODYNAMIC TOOLS & METHODS, MBDA UK LTD Professor Andrew Rae graduated from Imperial College Nigel gained his PhD in applied aerodynamics from the www.aerosociety.com/AERODYNAMICS19 MONDAY 14 & TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 – LONDON University of Southampton and spent 6 years at DRA/DERA Engineering. As part of this role he worked as subcontractor Farnborough before joining the Aerodynamics Group at at Airbus, Filton UK, for which the main purpose is MBDA Filton MBDA in 1999. He assumed his current role in developing new capability for aerodynamic optimisation. 2006. He is a member of the AIAA Meshing, Visualisation In November 2017, he was appointed as Research Fellow & Computational Environments Technical Committee and in Applied Aerodynamics in the Centre for Aeronautics. Dr the organising committee of the AIAA Geometry and Mesh Pasquale is currently working on different ATI projects led by Generation Workshops. He chairs the AIAA Geometry Airbus. Modelling Working Group. Nigel is a Fellow of the RAeS and an AIAA Associate Fellow. 5.1) SIMON PRINCE, SENIOR LECTURER, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY 3.1) DR SIMONE COLONIA, AERODYNAMICS ENGINEER, Not available at time of print. AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE After achieving a masters in Aerodynamics and a master in 5.2) GUSTAVO KRUPA, PHD CANDIDATE, CRANFIELD Space Transportation Systems at the “Sapienza University UNIVERSITY of Rome”, Simone Colonia moved to the United Kingdom to Gustavo P. Krupa is a PhD candidate in Aerospace obtain a Ph.D. at the “University of Liverpool” with a research Engineering in Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Robust on “CFD for Partially-Rarefied High-Speed Gases”. He then Multi-Disciplinary Optimisation sponsored by Airbus and worked at the “University of Glasgow” as research assistant Cranfield University. He is also interested in Model-Based in “Transition Modelling for Wind Turbine Applications”. He Systems Engineering and Data Science applied to advanced joined Airbus Group Innovations in 2016 as “CFD Simulation Aircraft Design. and Aerodynamic Modelling Engineer” before moving to Airbus Defence and Space in 2017 to hold the position of 5.2) JOE LOXHAM, PHD STUDENT, CRANFIELD “Zephyr Aerodynamic Engineer”. UNIVERSITY Not available at time of print. 3.2) ARJUN BISWAS, AERODYNAMICS ENGINEER, MBDA MISSILE SYSTEMS UK 5.2) TIMOLEON KIPOUROS, LECTURER, CRANFIELD Aerodynamicist at MBDA UK, Filton with around five years’ UNIVERSITY experience in investigating missile design trade spaces using Not available at time of print. a variety of tools, methods & techniques. Responsible in recent years for the design, implementation and support of 6) KEVIN HACKETT, AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING the EnGAM missile concept design environment. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ESDU IHS MARKIT Kevin Hackett completed a five-year apprenticeship with 3.2) NIGEL TAYLOR, CAPABILITY LEADER, British Aerospace at Hatfield and graduated with a BSc AERODYNAMIC TOOLS & METHODS, MBDA UK LTD (1st class Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering. He spent 14 Please refer to 2.2. years in the Aerodynamics department, working on wing designs for several Airbus aircraft, culminating in the A330/ 4.1) PROFESSOR ANDREW RAE FRAeS, PROFESSOR OF A340 aircraft. He then transferred to Raytheon Corporate ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND Jets working on future project studies and supporting the ISLANDS development of the U125A aircraft for the Japanese Coast Please refer to previous biography provided. Guard. He joined QinetiQ (then DRA) in 1995 and spent 13 years working on and leading several UK and European 4.2) DR MARK QUINN, LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF research programs covering advanced wing design concepts, MANCHESTER wind-tunnel testing and flow control. During this period, Mark is a graduate of the University of Manchester in both he provided aerodynamic and design support for the world 2009 (MEng) and 2013 (PhD) and subsequently worked record breaking Zephyr HALE UAV. He left QinetiQ in 1998 at ARA developing optical measurement methods. Mark and currently works for IHS Markit (ESDU) in the Transonic returned to the University of Manchester in late 2014 Aerodynamics Group, developing methods and data as a lecturer and is now PI on several industry-focused sheets relating to good design practice. He also provides research projects and also director of the undergraduate consultancy for a number of clients. He has published and degree programme. presented several papers and is co-inventor on a number of patents. He achieved Charted Engineer status in 1990 and 5.1) DR DAVIDE DI PASQUALE, RESERACH FELLOW IN became a Fellow of the RAeS in 2005. APPLIED AERODYNAMICS, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY In September 2011 Davide joined Cranfield University 7) PROFESSOR JOAQUIM MARTINS, PROFESSOR, where he embarked on a PhD, Industrial case fellowship, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN partially funded by Airbus UK, concerning the Multi- Joaquim Martins is a Professor in the Department of Disciplinary Design for Whole Aircraft Applications. After Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. From he completed his PhD, he was appointed as Research 2002 to 2009, he was a faculty member in the University