Professor of Aerothermal Engineering

Academic Division: Energy, Fluids and Turbomachinery

Research group: Turbomachinery

Telephone: +44 1223 3 37592

Email: nra27@cam.ac.uk

Strategic themes

Manufacturing, design and materials

Aerothermal research for the design of the next generation of ultra low NOX gas turbine combustors - FACTOR. Robust design of gas turbine secondary air systems and film cooling. Compact compression systems with Dyson.

Other positions

(Acting) Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technical Centre in Aerothermal Systems at the University of Sussex 2007-2009

Biography

Nick Atkins joined the Whittle Laboratory at the Department of Engineering as a Lecturer in Turbomachinery at the beginning of 2010. From 2007 he was a University Lecturer in Thermofluids and (acting) Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technical Centre in Aerothermal Systems at the University of Sussex.

Before Sussex he held the W. W. Spooner Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford, where he also completed his doctoral and undergraduate studies in Engineering Science.