Ahmer Wadee is Professor of Nonlinear Mechanics in the Structures Section and leads the research group specializing in the field of Nonlinear Structural Stability. His primary research interests involve modelling buckling instabilities in metallic and composite material structures using analytical methods. In 2026, he was one of only two Fellows elected by the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the first ever to be elected from the UK. While in 2014, he was listed as one of the 100 leading UK practising scientists by The Science Council of the UK.

Ahmer has won prizes for his research work from the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He serves as Editor for the leading journal, Thin-Walled Structures, he is also the Editor of Mathematics Today, and also serves on the Editorial Board of Structures, the research journal of the Institution of Structural Engineers. He was Chair of the ASCE EMI Stability Committee from 2017-19. He was also co-editor of the book "50 Visions of Mathematics", published by Oxford University Press in 2014.

Ahmer served as Director of Postgraduate Research from 2014-24, overseeing the academic progression of PhD students within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Previously he had served as the Senior Tutor for Postgraduate Students from 2010-14. In 2021, he was awarded the Imperial President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching, while in 2018 he received an Imperial President's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision.