Professor Ferri Aliabadi has accepted an extension to his appointment as Head of the Department of Aeronautics until 31 August 2017.
Professor Aliabadi joined Imperial as Professor of Aerostructures in 2005, having previously been Professor of Computational Mechanics and Director of Aerospace Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests include the developments of computational methods for modelling materials and structures.
He was first appointed Head of the Department of Aeronautics in 2009.