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Sophie Armanini is an Associate Professor in Aerial Robotics at the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London. Her research focuses on flight dynamics, system identification, and control, with particular attention to unconventional small-scale unmanned air vehicles. She aims to improve performance and efficiency while exploring novel applications of these technologies. Dr. Armanini is especially interested in flapping-wing flight and bioinspired robots. Before joining Imperial College in April 2024, she was a Technical University of Munich Assistant Professor from October 2020 to March 2024, where she led the eAviation Professorship. Additionally, from April 2018 to August 2020, she worked as a Research Associate at Imperial’s Aerial Robotics Laboratory, focusing on dynamics and control of aerial-aquatic robots. Her academic background includes a MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a PhD from Delft University of Technology, where her doctoral research concentrated on modeling nonlinear time-varying flight dynamics of flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles. Dr. Armanini has also served as a visiting researcher at both Cornell University and Cranfield University, as well as with the AOS Group in Melbourne, Australia.
Imperial College London, Department of Aeronautics • London, United Kingdom
Associate Professor in Aerial Robotics.
Technical University of Munich, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy • Munich, Germany
Led eAviation Professorship.
Imperial College London, Department of Aeronautics • London, United Kingdom
Worked on dynamics and control of aerial-aquatic robots.
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering • Delft, Netherlands
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.