{"id":453,"date":"2025-01-16T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=453"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:25:51","slug":"vice-dean-research-for-the-faculty-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2025\/01\/16\/vice-dean-research-for-the-faculty-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Engineering\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Daniele Dini has accepted the appointment of Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Engineering, with effect from 1 January 2025 for a term of five years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Dini joined Imperial in 2006 as a lecturer and was promoted to Professor of Tribology in 2016. He has previously held senior roles within the Department of Mechanical Engineering including the Director of Research.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Dini\u2019s research centres on the application of advanced modelling strategies to applied mechanics, materials, physics, chemistry, biomechanics and structural integrity, with a particular focus on tribology.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Dini was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2021.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Daniele Dini has accepted the appointment of Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Engineering, with effect from 1 January 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-453","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\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}