External activities

External funding:

• EPSRC CASE award ‘Stability of aircraft structures’ supported by Airbus UK.

Invited seminars:

• “Exact solutions for Sturm-Liouville problem on a tree” presented at Mathematical Physics Seminars, Loughborough University 2006
• “Numerical Analysis of Quantum Graphs” presented at Bath Centre for Non-Linear Mechanics, Bath University, 2008
• Tohoku University, Japan, 2009
• Hiroshima University, Japan, 2009
• ERASMUS funded visit to Brno Technical University, April 2011

Professional affiliations:

• Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy

International conferences:

• Member of the organising committee for the 4th International Conference on Thin Walled Structures held at Loughborough University June 2004

Journal refereeing:

• Thin-walled structures
• International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
• Computer Modelling in Engineering & Sciences
• Journal of Sound and Vibration
• International Journal Structural Stability and Dynamics
• Journal of Aerospace Engineering
• Engineering Mathematics
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering