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Kathryn Atherton
| Dr Kathryn Atherton has worked at Airbus Commercial Aircraft for more than 20 years focusing on test measurement, non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) research and development projects. She has a PhD from Imperial College London, UK. Kathryn is a member of the BINDT SHM Sub-Committee and was previously chair.
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Frederic Cegla
| Dr Frederic Cegla is a reader with over 20 years of research experience in the non-destructive evaluation (NDE) group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
His research is focused on improving technology for NDE, structural health monitoring (SHM) and process monitoring of assets, spanning the whole spectrum from fundamental theoretical considerations of sensor physics, wave propagation and data acquisition all the way to commercial application of technology in industry.
He has been the recipient of a prestigious five-year Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) research fellowship and has been a key contributor to research collaborations such as the UK Research Centre in Non-destructive Evaluation (RCNDE) and the Offshore Robotics for the Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub for robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in extreme environments.
He has also recently completed a four-year term as the chair of the UK’s Institute of Physics (IOP) Physical Acoustics Group and is the chair of the SHM Sub-Committee of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM) conference series.
He is a keen advocate of technology translation and has co-founded four Imperial College London spin-out companies (Permasense Ltd, Sonobotics Ltd, Embed Biotech Ltd and CodeAcq Ltd).
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Anthony Croxford
| Anthony Croxford is an academic in the Ultrasonics and Non-Destructive Testing (UNDT) Group. He has been researching the development of permanently installed systems for 20 years. He also has direct experience of real-world deployment of structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies through his involvement with the company Inductosense Ltd, UK.
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Aswin Haridas
| Dr Aswin Haridas is the team leader and global focal point for structural health monitoring (SHM) at Testia, an Airbus Company, based in Bremen, Germany. He holds a PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, completed in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, focusing on the development of advanced inspection capabilities for critical aircraft engine structures.
With over a decade of experience in non-destructive testing (NDT) and SHM, Dr Haridas specialises in developing and implementing NDT and SHM solutions across the aerospace, automotive, civil and energy sectors. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles in internationally recognised journals and conferences and holds five UK-registered patents.
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Robert Iness
| Robert Iness is a chartered civil engineer (MICE) with over 10 years design experience for Arup, working as a structural engineer on large infrastructure projects such as High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd, London 2012 Olympics and Riyadh Metro. Following this, he spent eight years providing technical support to underwriters to help them insure the construction/operational assets to enable them to make an economic decision.
Recently, he joined Swiss Re Ltd as an engineering underwriter where he insures construction projects and operational infrastructure assets, such as bridges and tunnels.
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Ikesh Patel
| Ikesh Patel (CEng) is principal technical expert (PTE) and global discipline lead for inspection at Shell plc, currently based in Netherlands. With over 25 years of experience in asset integrity management, he specialises in corrosion management, risk-based inspection, structural health monitoring (SHM), advanced non-destructive evaluation (NDE), sensors, robotics and digital technologies. His current work focuses on integrating condition monitoring (CM), artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to support predictive integrity management and improve asset reliability across Shell's global operations.
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Simon Tewolde
| Dr Simon Tewolde is a senior engineer and project manager at Bachmann Monitoring GmbH, Germany, with expertise in structural health monitoring (SHM) for wind turbines, especially offshore. He holds a PhD from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and is the recipient of the Mirko Roš Medal (2019) and the Zerna Award (2022) for his research contributions.
He has more than 10 years of industrial experience supporting the deployment of SHM technologies in the wind energy industry.
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