Skip to main content

Our experts and business support

 

<span class='contactname'>Dr Mihalis Kazilas</span>
Dr Mihalis Kazilas is the Director of the Brunel Composites Centre. He has more than 20 years of experience in the composites processing area. He received his PhD in Advanced Materials from Cranfield University back in 2003. His main field of expertise are polymers characterisation and polymer composites manufacturing and joining processes. He is author of several refereed scientific publications in the area of advanced composites manufacturing and process optimisation. Mihalis is a creative thinker who enjoys problem solving and able to work with different stakeholders to achieve the optimum results in both technical and managerial environments.
<span class='contactname'>Dr Nithin Amirth Jayasree</span>
Nithin is a Team Leader at the Brunel Composites Centre (BCC). He is currently leading the composite modelling and testing team at BCC and his work includes multiscale modelling of materials including composites, CFD, materials research, and composite processing including thermoset infusion & RTM. He is working in multiple Innovate UK, Horizon 2020 and Cleansky projects. He completed his PhD at the Politechnico di Torino, Italy in 2017 on process simulations of thermoplastic composite materials.
<span class='contactname'>Dr Sadik Omairey</span>
Sadik is a Research Fellow at Brunel Composites Centre (BCC), a joint venture between Brunel University London and The Welding Institution (TWI) since June 2019. He is currently the technical lead and support for three collaborative projects that involve industrial and academic partners in automotive crash structures design, assembly of an all-composites aircraft fuselage, and thermoplastic additive manufacturing. Besides, Sadik often represents BCC at academic and non-academic conferences and meetings, proposals writings, dissemination, and research papers. While having other duties such as postgraduate students training.
<span class='contactname'>Dr Vasiliki Loukodimou</span>
Vasiliki is a Research Fellow at Brunel Composites Centre. Her main interests lie within the areas of composite manufacturing, material characterisation and composite modelling.
<span class='contactname'>Dr Akram Zitoun</span>
Akram is a Research Fellow who joined the Brunel Composite Centre in August 2020. The Brunel Composites Innovation Centre (BCC) is a shared research and technology capability specialising in novel composites processing and joining technologies, applied to industrial environments.
<span class='contactname'>Mr Hesam Badri</span>
Research fellow at Brunel Composite Centre with expertise in multiscale modelling and characterisation of materials including composites, materials research, composite processing, crashworthiness analysis and nanoparticle sizing of composites.