Assistant Professor in Future Flight Dynamics (Research and Education)

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606

Role Summary

The School of Metallurgy and Materials is a multi-disciplinary, vibrant and inclusive environment for outstanding study and research and the home of the Aerospace Engineering research and educational programmes at Birmingham.

This post will deliver world-class research and research-led education in the field of flight mechanics and dynamics, complementing and collaborating within a research portfolio covering high-performance aerospace materials, space instrumentation and computational fluid dynamics. This new role seeks to strategically grow our activity with a particular focus on one, or more, of the following areas:

• Aircraft handling qualities and safety, utilising our extensive and unique motion flight simulation capability.
• Uncrewed Air Vehicle (UAV) technologies, flight dynamics and operations.
• Stability and control of air vehicles using novel methods and/or for innovative platforms.
• Application of novel machine learning approaches to practical future flight dynamics problems, using the institutional high performance/throughput computing capacity such as the BlueBEAR university supercomputer.

Successful candidates will be expected to initiate and conduct national and internationally significant research and development, building collaborative relationships with colleagues from inside and outside the University as appropriate. It is expected that they will develop programmes that attract significant research funding from bodies such as the ATI, UKRI and InnovateUK, and/or the aerospace industry, and disseminate their work in leading journals, conferences and/or industrial meetings. 

In Education, the successful candidate will be expected to engage with the development and delivery of courses, and student design and research projects at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

Management and administration will involve contributions at School level using excellent interpersonal skills to share expertise and best practices that supports an inclusive academic community in delivering excellent and impactful research and education.

Person Specification

• A PhD, or equivalent industrial engineering research experience, in a relevant discipline of Engineering or Physical Science.
• Evidence of the knowledge and experience required to identify, plan and deliver internationally significant research programmes in aerospace flight dynamics.
• Evidence of the ability and drive to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers through developing and delivering world-class education programmes.
• Highly effective communications skills, sufficient to undertake research, teaching and administration duties in English.
• Demonstrate outstanding interpersonal skills and commitment to professional activities such as mentoring qualities and promotion of equality, diversity and inclusivity in the engineering profession.
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development through plans and activities that would lead to achievements such as (but not limited to) professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Chartered Scientist (CSci), membership of a professional engineering institution (such as RAeS) or appropriate categories of HEA Fellowship.

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Alessandro Mottura (Head of School) and Hugo Williams (Professor of Aerospace Engineering) via met-mat-hos@contacts.bham.ac.uk

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