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The Courses: Engineering: Fellows

Churchill boasts one of the largest numbers of Engineering Fellows and By Fellows of any of the Cambridge Colleges, the majority of whom are actively involved in teaching and research, either in the College or in the Engineering Department.

	Professor Gehan Amaratunga, FREng Gehan Amaratunga heads the Electronics, Power and Energy Conversion research group of the Department of Engineering. His research interests include integrated and discrete semiconductor devices for power switching and control, novel materials and device structures for low cost, high efficiency solar cells, and power electronics for optimum grid connection of large photovoltaic electric generation systems.
	Professor Malcolm Bolton Malcolm Bolton is Director of the Schofield Centre and Professor of Soil Mechanics. He is the author of about 120 publications on a wide range of topics from fundamental soil mechanics to applications on retaining walls and reinforced soils,embankments and slopes, pipes and tunnels, pile driving and penetrometers, pressuremeters and grout injections, and to less obvious fields such as sugar refining and neuropathology.
	Dr Rob Bracewell Rob is a Senior Research Associate in the Engineering Design Centre of the Department of Engineering. A mechanical engineer, he has previously researched in the fields of ocean wave-energy exploitation, mechatronics and advanced robotics. Currently, his main interests are in the creation of software tools to aid designers, in the generation and evaluation of innovative design solutions, and unobtrusively capturing the rationale behind the decisions.
	Lord Broers, ScD, FRS, FREng Alec Broers was Master of Churchill College from 1990 until he became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1996. He was also Head of the Department of Engineering at Cambridge until 1996. In his personal research he has been a pioneer of nanotechnology, having worked on the application of electrons, X-rays and ultra-violet light to microscopy, and to the fabrication of microelectronic components. In Cambridge, he established a nanofabrication laboratory in which the technology of miniaturisation was extended to the atomic scale. He has been President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and chairs the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology.
	Dr Peter Davidson Peter is a Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics Group in the Department of Engineering. His present research interests are in the areas of magnetohydrodynamics applied to metallurgical problems in continuous casting and an investigation into turbulence in the Earth's core.
	Professor W.N. Dawes, FREng Bill Dawes works in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with a special emphasis on application to aero-engines. Most modern turbomachines found anywhere in the world are likely to have been designed using his software: the 'Dawes Code' is now an industry standard.
	Professor M.J. Gregory, CBE Mike Gregory is Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division of the Department of Engineering, and its Institute for Manufacturing. Both activities pursue an integrated approach to engineering and management and have very close links with a wide range of industries. Mike is also an Executive Director of the Cambridge MIT Institute (CMI).
	Dr Christopher Hicks Chris studied Engineering at Churchill both as an undergraduate and postgraduate. His specialism is in the use of mathematical and numerical techniques to process and analyse sound. He is a Director of CEDAR Audio Ltd., a University "spin-off" company specialising in audio noise reduction and restoration systems. He also has research interests in room acoustics and computational methods in acoustics. In February 2005 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the "Oscars") honoured Chris and his colleague Dave Betts with a Technical Achievement Award for the design and implementation of the DNS1000 Dialogue Noise Suppressor, used throughout Hollywood and the world in the preparation of movie soundtracks.
	Dr Dongfang Liang Dongfang is a Lecturer in Civil Engineering Fluid Mechanics/Water Engineering in the Department of Engineering. His research experiences include large-scope Particle Image Velocimetry and Laser Induced Fluorescence techniques, scour around offshore pipelines induced by currents and waves, shallow water dynamics and flood risk management. He is also interested in water/soil interactions and water quality modelling.
	Mr Ben Lishman Ben Lishman specialises in low-energy building design at the BP Institute, Cambridge University. He uses a combination of theoretical, numerical and experimental models to study air flow patterns in buildings. The aim of the project is to improve natural ventilation control systems and reduce the need for air conditioning in large office buildings. Ben was an undergraduate at Churchill, studying electrical and information engineering.
	Dr Ken Livesley Ken Livesley was a pioneer of the use of digital computers to solve problems in engineering, and most particularly structural engineering. He worked with Alan Turing in Manchester before returning to Cambridge and Churchill College. He is the author of numerous engineering textbooks concerning the rigorous application of mathematics to engineering problems.
	Dr Terese Lovas Terese's background is in theoretical astrophysics, but she is now working in the field of turbulent combustion. This is a multi-disciplinary field involving both engineering, physics and chemistry. Her main focus is the development of models for the simulation of turbulent combustion in internal combustion engines, turbines and furnaces. She also has an interest in atmospheric dispersion modelling for the prediction of pollution in the atmosphere.
	Professor W.I. Milne, FREng Bill Milne is Head of the Electrical Engineering Division, and of the Electronic Devices and Materials group of the Department of Engineering, which researches the application of thin films, amorphous semiconductors and diamond-like carbon.
	Professor A.C. Palmer, FRS, FREng Andrew Palmer was appointed the first Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering, in 1996, and is Head of the Petroleum engineering group of the Department of Engineering. He was President of the Pipeline Industries Guild for the two years to May 2000.
	Professor John Robertson John is a Professor in the Electronic Devices and Materials Group of the Department of Engineering. He has a wide range of interests, including amorphous silicon and diamond-like carbon. He also has a strong interest in ferroelectric oxides which are likely to be important as gate dielectrics in future CMOS Devices, and as storage media in non-volatile ferroelectric random access memories or 'FRAMs'.
	Professor A.N. Schofield, FRS, FREng Andrew Schofield is an emeritus Professor. His outstanding contribution to the field of soil mechanics is recognised in the naming of the new building for Geotechnical Research on the West Cambridge site in his name.
	Dr Kenichi Soga Kenichi is Reader in Geomechanics and is a member in the Geotechnical Engineering Group of the Department of Engineering. He is also the chairman of the Engineering Department Language Unit. His research interests include geotechnical processes (underground construction, grouting and soil fracture, pipe-soil interaction, ageing geotechnical infrastructure), soil and site characterisation (self-boring permeameter, micromechanics and macroscopic behaviour) and environmental geotechnics (source zone remediation, upscaling and heterogeneity, surface-subsurface interaction).
	Dr Len Squire Len describes his research interests as covering anything that flies from shuttle cocks to space shuttles. Ever since starting work in the transonic and supersonic tunnels at the former Royal Aircraft Establishment at Bedford his approach has been based on the use of wind tunnel experiments to obtain a better understanding of the flow around wings and bodies with the main objective of reducing drag and taming shockwaves.
	Dr I. Thusyanthan "Thushy" (as he is generally known) is a Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Engineering. He received his Ph.D and MEng/BA degrees from University of Cambridge. His research interests include seismic behaviour of landfills, tsunami wave loading on structures, effect of construction induced vibrations on underground structures, cracking in clay, uplift resistance of offshore oil pipe lines and liquefaction. He has worked in various geotechnical projects for WS Atkins Consultants Ltd and Mott MacDonald Consultants Group.
	Dr Ian Wassell Ian Wassell joined the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering in 1999 and is currently a member of the Computer Laboratory. He has in excess of 15 years experience in the simulation and design of radio communication systems gained via a number of positions in industry and higher education. His research interests include Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) systems, radio propagation and communication signal processing. He is a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and also serves on the local Cambridge committee of the IEE.