Dr Pooya Sareh PhD (Cantab.), FHEA, FRSA

Personal Statement

Dr Pooya Sareh is a Lecturer and Director of the Creative Design Engineering Lab (Cdel), and Programme Director (PD) of postgraduate taught programmes in mechanical engineering, design engineering, and manufacturing systems, at the University of Liverpool. Prior to the current appointment, he was Course Leader and Lecturer of Engineering Design in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London (2016-18), and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Dr Sareh serves on the editorial board of several journals including Decision Analytics (Elsevier), Experimental Results (Cambridge University Press), Engineering Reports (Wiley), and PLOS ONE.

He graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in Engineering (Structural Mechanics) in 2014, during which he also attended the Florence Academy of Art, Italy. Subsequently, he joined the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Robotics. He holds BSc (First Class Hons.) and MSc (Distinction) degrees in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and the University of Sheffield, UK, respectively.