Dr. Ben Parslew

Biography

Ben Parslew has a strong academic background in aerospace engineering, fluid dynamics, and biomechanics. His research primarily focuses on interface engineering in biology, with particular interests in animal locomotion, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and robotics within computer animation. He has developed tools for analyzing flapping-wing flight. He earned his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 2003, followed by a Master's in Fluid Dynamics from the University of Manchester in 2005. He completed his PhD in animal flight biomechanics at the University of Manchester. Awarded the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship in 2011, he previously worked as a Research Associate in the School of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering (MACE). In 2013, he was appointed as an honorary lecturer and later became a full lecturer and then a senior lecturer in Aerospace Engineering. His teaching spans various topics including modeling and simulation, flight mechanics, and UAV design. In 2020, he became an adjunct professor at Chulalongkorn University where he teaches courses on biomimetics and experimental aerodynamics.

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