Members of staff

Dr Ehsan Ahmadi

Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Ehsan is currently a lecturer in School of Engineering and Built Environment at Birmingham City University and a Visiting Fellow at University of Southampton (UoS). Prior to his current position, Ehsan was a Research and Teaching Fellow within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at UoS. From 2014-2018, and...

Florimond Gueniat

Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering and Course Leader for MSc Automotive Engineering

Florimond Guéniat has a PhD in fluid mechanics and computer science from Univ. Paris Sud. He then spent two years in the Department of Mathematics, at Florida State University researching on the control of fluid flows. Before joining BCU, he also spent two more years in the department of Mechanical Engineering at...

Dr Andy Lim

Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Andy is a Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. Prior to joining Birmingham City University, Andy was a Research Officer in the ”Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE)" project in the College of Engineering at Swansea University. He was also a Teaching...

Dr Noel Perera

Associate Professor and Director of Innovation and Enterprise

Noel graduated with the BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering degree in 1997 and awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 both with Northumbria University. He joined Northumbria University as an academic in 2003 after a period of employment as a TCS (KTP) Associate at the National Centre...

Mohammad Salami

Assistant Lecturer

Mohammad graduated from Arak Azad University, Iran, with a BSc in Civil Engineering in 2007. He undertook a Master’s programme (Geotechnical Engineering) and obtained his MSc in Civil Engineering in 2010. After one year in industry, working in structural design, he decided to continue his education and started his PhD research...

Dr Venkatesh Vijay

Associate Professor

Dr Venkatesh Chennam Vijay received his PhD in Engineering for extending Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) principles into engineering distance learning from Birmingham City University (BCU). His expertise involves Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), embedded systems...