ProfessorAimee Morgans

Aimee Morgans' research is on fluid dynamics and sound: it is aimed at making energy generation and transport more environmentally friendly, and mitigating the effect of climate extremes.  

Aimee joined Imperial as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2007 and has been a full Professor since 2017. She holds PhD and MEng degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University. She was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021, Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales in 2024 and awarded the Menelaus Medal by the Learned Society of Wales in 2023.

She is best known for her research on thermoacoustic instability, and has held a €2M ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-23), €1.5M ERC Starting Grant (2013-18) and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (2004-09) on this topic. Her current projects on thermoacoustic instability include the "Making hydrogen work in zero carbon jet engines" EPSRC Programme Grant (led by Oxford), where she leads the combustion dynamics theme, and a PhD studentship with Siemens Energy. She also leads research programmes on aerodynamics (with current projects funded by Jaguar Land Rover and EOARD) and acoustic damping.

She holds several positions in support of engineering across the UK and Europe. She is on the REF2029 Engineering sub-panel, is a Membership Selection Panel Chair for the Royal Academy of Engineering and has been an ERC Starting Grant and EPSRC Engineering Panel member. She has previously led Equality, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives within two Departments at Imperial, and now co-leads the UK's Special Interest Group in Women in Fluid Dynamics.