Aerospace Division Students Seminar 2018

David Roberts: Technical Team Leader, Aircraft Research Establishment

David Roberts has been working at the Aircraft Research Association (ARA) for the past five and a half years and is now a Technical Team Leader within the Aerodynamic Capabilities department. David’s team is tasked with the development and deployment of advanced measurement techniques including unsteady pressure measurement and various optical methods including both steady and dynamic Pressure-Sensitive Paint.  Recently, this work has focused on optical measurement of model deformations under load and a renewed interest in PIV within an industrial wind tunnel facility. Prior to working at ARA David completed a PhD entitled “Analysis and Control of Resonant Cavity Flows” at Cranfield University, where David worked in conjunction with both the UK MOD (CDE/DSTL) and also the USAF (EOARD/AFRL) researching high-speed cavity flows. David also holds a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Angel Gomariz Sancha: _, Aircraft Research Establishment

Angel Gomariz-Sancha is a Senior Aerodynamics Engineer in ARA’s Aerodynamics Capability department. His work currently spans both computational and experimental aerodynamics, participating in aerodynamic design and analysis projects covering civil and military aircraft systems. In particular, Angel is technical manager for the development of a new two-stream jet propulsion rig for simulation of ultra-high by-pass ratio nacelles.

Angel graduated with a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya(Barcelona, Spain) in 2010 and a Master of Science in Computational Fluid Dynamics in the College of Aeronautics in Cranfield University (Cranfield, UK) in 2012, joining ARA in the same year.

Paul Harris: Future Systems Technology, Rolls-Royce

Paul Harris leads the aerospace R&T activity in Rolls-Royce covering the architecture, thermal, fluid, structural, environmental and functional systems across UK, Germany and the US. . He is a member of the Smart, Connected and More Electric Systems advisory board for the UK Aerospace Technology Institute, and is also the main Rolls-Royce representative on the developing Amy Johnson Industry Strategy challenge bid into Forward Thinking Aviation. In over 30 years in Rolls-Royce he has had a number of engineering and leadership roles covering most of the Civil and Military engines mainly specialising in Systems and Control. Highlights include developing new Control systems including the Adour/Pegasus, the Liftfan/ 3BSM nozzle actuation systems for the JSF to new architectures for future power and propulsion systems . He has recently been appointed as a visiting professor at Cranfield University and is responsible for the Rolls-Royce involvement in the Aero Integration Research Centre at Cranfield.

Steve Hodder: Principal Engineer, DSTL

Steve Hodder graduated from Bristol University in 1991 with a 1st Class Hons degree in Aerospace Engineering. He joined the Defence Research Agency Propulsion Department at Pyestock as a propulsion performance engineer, progressing to research leader for military powerplant installations in 1995. In 2000, Steve joined the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office (JSF PO) in Washington DC, initially being responsible for flight clearance of X-32B propulsion system hardware as part of the Concept Demonstration Phase. In 2001, Steve became integration manager for the F135 JSF propulsion system within the JSF PO. In 2005, Steve returned from Washington to become Principal Propulsion Engineer at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, shaping MOD’s research strategy for propulsion, power and energy in the air domain. In 2018 Steve was appointed Technical Leader for Power and Propulsion within Team Tempest, a major government-industry joint initiative aimed at delivering the UK’s technological and capability needs for a next generation combat air system.