Academic Expert profiles
Experts in the School of Architecture, Built Environment, Computing and Engineering
Our School of Architecture, Built Environment, Computing and Engineering has an abundance of academics with a wealth of knowledge and a passion for teaching. Our experts range from quantity surveyors to sound engineers, all of whom have experience working in the industry they teach.
Meet the experts
Claudia Carter
Claudia is a Professor in the field of interdisciplinary research and environmental governance. Her research relates to climate change and sustainability adopting social-ecological systems th...
Damilola Ekundayo
Damilola is an Associate Professor in the Built Environment, Head of Construction and Quantity Surveying Subject Group and Programme Director for MSc Quantity Surveying. Damilola also has substanti...
Mariam Adedoyin-Olowe
Mariam is Programme Leader of MSc Artificial Intelligence at Birmingham City University. She is also a researcher in the field of Data Mining, Data Analytics and Data Science.
Tychonas Michailidis
Dr Tychonas Michailidis is a Lecturer in Digital Media Technology. He is part of BIFCA, teaching both students in Birmingham and in Wuhan, China. He joined BCU in February 2020 from Solent Universi...
Sara Hassan
Sara is a full-time Senior Lecturer in software engineering, leading the MSc Advanced Computer Science course. She is currently an active researcher in ...
Nathan Dewell
Nathan is the course leader for BSc (Hons) Game Technology, bringing expertise in technical game development, real-asset workflows, and interactive world-building.
Aidan Taylor
Aiden is the course leader for BA (Hons) Game Design and teaches Games Design and development at both undergraduate and post graduate levels
Ben West
Ben West is the course leader for BSc (Hons) Sound Engineering and Production and leads the acoustics modules at BCU.
Faisal Saeed
Faisal is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing, Birmingham City University, where he leads the MSc Artificial Intelligence course. Faisal's research focuses on arti...
Mostafiz Rahman
Mostafiz Rahman is currently working as an Associate Professor for Engineering.
Waheb Abdullah
Dr Waheb Abdullah is an Electrical Engineer with a PhD in Electrical, Electronic, and Systems Engineering combined with over 15 years of expertise in industry and academia.
Panch Suntharalingam
Dr Panch Suntharalingam is currently the Course Director for MA Design at Birmingham City University.
Ana Araujo
Dr Ana Araujo trained as an architect, and she currently works in the fields of art curating, research and education. Her interests range across the fields of design, the visual arts, psychol...
Sion Lenton
Sion Lenton is the Course Director for BA (Hons) Video Game Design for the Games Film and Animation School at Birmingham City University.
Lianne Forbes
Lianne is a Senior Lecturer with 14 years of high-end VFX film industry experience. Her focus is on forging strong links between the University and industry. She plans to develop student awar...
Mersha Aftab
Dr Mersha Aftab is a Senior Lecturer in Design Management at Birmingham City University, and Course Director for the MA Design Management Programme within the School of Architecture.
STEAMhouse
Our brand new £70 million pound building, STEAMhouse, is the new home for Computing and Digital Technology.