Senior Lecturer, Department of Aeronautics, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London

Georgios Rigas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. He is leading the £2.5m UKRI funded project on decarbonisation of the transport and energy sectors through the AI for Net Zero Project. He is a member of the AI for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre of Excellence (ADViCE), part of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (DESNZ) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.

Georgios's research is at the intersection of fluid mechanics, control, energy, and environment. He is interested in the fundamental understanding and control-oriented modelling of transitional and turbulent flows encountered in the aerospace and automotive industry. He is particularly interested in developing and implementing active and passive control schemes, which reduce noise, aerodynamic drag, and structural fatigue. Control schemes are evaluated through high-fidelity numerical simulations and state-of-the-art experiments at the Imperial Aero Wind Tunnel facilities. His currently funded projects are:

• AI for Net Zero (UKRI EP/Y005619/1; PI)
• Stability and Control of High-Speed Flows (US Airforce, UK-FR MoD; PI)
• Model design and model reduction using machine learning techniques (IC-CNRS & ONERA, lead PI)