Prior to joining Imperial College in 2005, he was Professor of Computational Mechanics and the Director of Aerospace Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London (1997-2004) and Reader and Head of Damage Tolerance Division at WIT, Southampton (1987-1997).

Aerospace Materials and Structures Composites and Materials Innovation Computational Methods and Mathematical Modelling Computational Structural Mechanics Multifunctional Materials, Smart and Micro Air Vehicles Space Lab Structural Integrity and Health Monitoring