{"id":451,"date":"2025-01-16T13:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=451"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:24:13","slug":"head-of-the-department-of-mechanical-engineering-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2025\/01\/16\/head-of-the-department-of-mechanical-engineering-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas has accepted the appointment of Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with effect from 1 October 2025 for a term of five years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Martinez-Botas joined Imperial as a researcher in 1994 and was promoted to Professor of Turbomachinery in 2012. He is currently the Associate Dean for Industry Partnerships for the Faculty of Engineering, which he will step down from when he takes up the Head of the Department role.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\">Professor Martinez-Botas&#8217; r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\">esearch <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\">focuses on<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\"> unsteady flow aerodynamics of small <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange TrackChangeHoverSelectColorRed SCXW7890688 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed TrackChangeHoverSelectHighlightRed SCXW7890688 BCX8\">turbomachinery<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange TrackChangeHoverSelectColorRed SCXW7890688 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW7890688 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun TrackChangeHoverSelectHighlightRed SCXW7890688 BCX8\">, waste heat recovery and thermal management<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas has accepted the appointment of Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with effect from 1 October 2025 for a term of five years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}