UK Innovation Conference

Morgan Maia is a Technical Partnerships Manager at Oracle Red Bull Racing, one of his key responsibilities is to support the team in their marketing activations and oversee the technical partners programs. Morgan is knowledgeable about Marketing and the technical aspects of F1 after 4 years in the industry. Having studied aerospace engineering, Morgan initially began his career as a Race Engineer to migrate to Marketing and Partnership Management. This transition allowed him to apply his technical expertise in a broader context and gain a deeper understanding of the business side of the Motorsports industry. “My passion for the sport and appreciation for the technical ecosystem allows me to support meaningful partnerships that contribute to the team's success.”

Timothy Addison is a Chartered Chemical Engineer, with an extensive experience in product formulation and process scale-up. He has a proven track record of leading digital transformation initiatives within the manufacturing sector. As the recently appointed Head of Digital at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), he will be instrumental in implementing innovative digital strategies to streamline production processes and enhance operational efficiency. With significant experience at major corporations such as Johnson Matthey and Procter & Gamble, Timothy has cultivated a deep expertise in scaling up complex chemical processes and integrating advanced technologies across various platforms. His work encompasses a wide range of technical proficiencies, including cloud computing, machine learning, and automation engineering.

Will Marsden is the EMEA Field Chief Technologist for all Ansys technologies in EMEA, with a special interest in Digital Engineering and Sustainability. This role is principally aligned with understanding how to combine data and simulation with other advanced technologies to drive critical decisions earlier in the product life cycle. With a PhD in fracture mechanics and decades of professional experience in aerospace, defence and other heavily regulated industries, Will has domain expertise in long term engineering information management infrastructure and has lead teams covering model based systems engineering, materials, AIML, optimisation and reduced order modelling.

Ilya Tolchinsky has been fascinated with applying optimization techniques to multidisciplinary engineering problems since graduating. He started his career as an Aerodynamicist working for Rolls-Royce Engines, where he learned engineering design using traditional methods, before working for Ansys developing his professional-level software engineering skills. He then worked as a consultant, helping to create various engineering tools primarily in the aerospace sector for companies such as Airbus and Rolls-Royce. For the last nine years, he has been working as a Lead Application Engineer for Phoenix Integration (acquired by Ansys in 2021) and is responsible for the company’s European activities. In this role he helps clients from top engineering firms realize the benefits of applying process integration and design optimization methodology within an MBSE context. Ilya holds a Master of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.

Dr Mike Slack is senior technical account manager for Aerospace & Defense. He represents and manages the technical activities for two of our largest customers across the full portfolio of Ansys products. He has two degrees. His first in mechanical engineering before specialising in fluid flow modelling of secondary steel making and obtaining a PhD from the Materials Department of Newcastle University, UK. He joined Fluent in1997 which was acquired by Ansys in 2006.

Andrew Dimelow is a Technical Account Manager at Ansys supporting Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in the adoption of Ansys technology. With a background in fluid dynamics, Andrew has a wealth of experience applying simulation across a range of applications and prior to joining Ansys was a Principal Engineer at Cummins Turbo Technologies. Outside of work, Andrew is a keen trail runner.

Tomasz Stelmach is a highly skilled CFD Engineer and Multiphysics Simulation Specialist with 15 years’ experience in the industry. Tomasz's expertise spans a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, and medical devices. He has worked on complex simulation projects that have involved fluid flow, heat transfer, combustion, and structural mechanics. With a passion for computational fluid dynamics and a deep understanding of the Ansys software suite, Tomasz has become a trusted expert in the field of numerical simulation.

Rob Winstanley is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers with more than 20 years of experience working in design, analysis, and testing for a variety of industries, including nuclear safety, oil & gas, renewable energy, turbomachinery, aero-acoustics, automotive powertrain, and aerodynamics. He has considerable experience in the simulation and modelling of components and systems using both CFD and finite element methods. He is currently responsible for leading Ansys’ advanced technologies in pre-processing and GPU solutions for aerodynamics in EMEA.

Dr Marina Sousani holds a BSc & MEng degrees in Civil & Structural Engineering and a PhD in Geoscience using Discrete Element Modelling (DEM). Marina is a senior Research and Development Engineer at Ansys and has over 7 years’ experience modelling granular material using DEM and various experimental methods. She joined the Ansys Rocky team in 2023 and is part of the ACE team.

Akeel is a Senior Application Engineering Manager at Ansys in EMEA. His team focuses on electric machine design and simulation and is currently leading a few EV projects with industry in EMEA and NA. He has an interest in the design and simulation of complete powertrains.

Chris Normanshire is a Lead Application Engineer in the Optics team at Ansys and has spent the past 12 years working with Optical Simulation and Design software. He has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Manchester and a master’s degree in Optics and Photonics from Imperial College London. Currently, his is focused on supporting customers to extend the scope of what they can simulate by combining optics with other physics, such as structural and thermal analyses, and computational fluid dynamics. Chris has trained hundreds of engineers in the use of Ansys Zemax OpticStudio as well as presenting webinar sand publishing knowledgebase articles on a range of topics.

Filip Rožić, an FEA engineer with over 10 years of experience in offshore and marine industry, specialized in tackling subsea challenges at Connector Subsea Solutions. Passionate about finite element analysis and committed to delivering excellent and reliable analyses.

Professor Bert Blocken holds a PhD in Civil Engineering / Building Physics from KU Leuven in Belgium. He is Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering (specialty Aerodynamics) at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, the United Kingdom, and part-time Full Professor of Civil Engineering (specialty CFD in the Built Environment) at KU Leuven in Belgium. His main areas of expertise are urban physics, city and building aerodynamics and sports aerodynamics. He was ranked a highly cited scientist by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 until now and was listed as one of 15 engineers world-wide "who mattered in 2020" by Engineering.com for his pioneering work in cycling aerodynamics and COVID-19.

Peter Hall is Chapter Lead - Lighting Optical and Mechanical at Jaguar Land Rover. With more than 20 years of experience in functional and aesthetic product creation for Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, he leads a global team of optical designers and mechanical integration specialists.

Andrew Hobbs is the Head of Simulation at Astec Industries where he leads a team of simulation experts performing CFD, FEA, and DEM to support engineering teams across Astec’s varied product line. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Andrew lives in Sheffield with his wife, two children, and their golden retriever.

Matthew Stewart is a Principal Optical Engineer at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Matthew began his career in the semiconductor industry, developing bespoke instrumentation for III-N characterisation. He then moved into design for manufacture of optical instruments for surface inspection before transitioning to NPL where he works on a wide variety of systems including radiometry, imaging and interferometry, applied to primary reference standards and other high performance optical instrumentation.

Mike Magnier is a Lead Application Engineer within the LS-DYNA SME team, based in Bristol, UK. He recently joined Ansys after a decade in consultancy, where he put LS-DYNA to work on a broad range of problems. His experience spans the automotive, built environment and aerospace and defence sectors, and he has a strong interest in automation and optimisation.

Mina Panahi is a Senior Application Engineer who has been at Ansys for over 3 years. Here focus is on high frequency applications which includes RF and Microwave Front End Systems, Low Noise Amplifiers, Antennas, Active and passive components.

Tomasz Stelmach is a highly skilled CFD Engineer and Multiphysics Simulation Specialist with 15 years’ experience in the industry. Tomasz's expertise spans a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, and medical devices. He has worked on complex simulation projects that have involved fluid flow, heat transfer, combustion, and structural mechanics. With a passion for computational fluid dynamics and a deep understanding of the Ansys software suite, Tomasz has become a trusted expert in the field of numerical simulation.

Doug Bell has been involved in heat transfer and fluid flow since 1993 and has been using Thermal Desktop since 2000. With a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University, Doug has worked for Ansys (formerly CRTech) since 2006 and previously worked for NASA and Lockheed Martin. He has performed thermal or fluid analyses on: stratospheric airships and research balloons and their flight control electronics; the thermal protection systems of X-33 and hypersonic vehicles; launch control electronics for missile launchers; missile storage containers and launch tubes; boilers; and on-orbit spacecraft.

Reza Malekimoghadam is a D&R CAE Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), working in the Durability and Robustness CAE team, based in Gaydon, UK. He has a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin. He works on the off-road crash load cases through Ansys LS-DYNA. His experience spans the aerospace, automotive, and home appliance sectors. He has tremendous enthusiasm for the structural analysis of advanced hybrid composite structures.

After completing an Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree at Manchester University and a year backpacking around Australia, Nicola Masters started her career focusing on DSP Hardware and Analogue to Digital Converters. After being lucky enough to work with some of the first video conferencing systems and high-end DSP processing applications, she made the switch to software. Since then, simulation has been a mainstay of her career. Working with organisations across many verticals, including Aerospace and Defence, Automotive, Medical and Consumer Electronics, and more recently, adding Renewable Energy to the customers she has worked with. She joined Ansys in 2022 which has allowed her to combine her years of knowledge in supporting customers across the design life cycle to focus on specific solutions to help with early design decisions. EMC Plus and Charge Plus take Nicola back to the beginning, focusing once more on electronics and specifically Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electrostatic Discharge.

Flurin Herren is a Senior Application Engineer on the Ansys Optics ACE Team in Europe. Since he joined in early 2021, he has focused on helping customer with Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, bringing the STAR Module to market, delivering webinar and online trainings to the Ansys E learning platforms, and working on the interoperability of OpticStudio with a vast variety of other Ansys and Non-Ansys Products such as Creo Parametric, Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Speos.

Dr Tom Allen is a Reader in Mechanical Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University. He specialises in Sports Engineering, with a focus on sporting injury risk reduction. Tom is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). He holds various external positions, including Editor-in-Chief of Sports Engineering, Chair of the IMechE Sports Engineering group, Vice-President of the International Society for Snowsports Safety (ISSS) and Deputy-Chair of the British Standards Institution (BSI) committee Protective Equipment for Sports Players. Tom advocates inclusivity in sport and recently co-authored an IMechE policy report on sports engineering, outlining recommendations for the development of inclusive and sustainable sports technology. His media appearances for sport and health span TV, radio, online and print, including the BBC, Sky News, the Guardian, and the Telegraph.

Mina Panahi is a Senior Application Engineer who has been at Ansys for over 3 years. Here focus is on high frequency applications which includes RF and Microwave Front End Systems, Low Noise Amplifiers, Antennas, Active and passive components.

Andrew Dimelow is a Technical Account Manager at Ansys supporting Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in the adoption of Ansys technology. With a background in fluid dynamics, Andrew has a wealth of experience applying simulation across a range of applications and prior to joining Ansys was a Principal Engineer at Cummins Turbo Technologies. Outside of work, Andrew is a keen trail runner.