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Imperial College London

Engineering Aeronautical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering Polymer Chemistry

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5.05/4/2026

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Professor Emile Greenhalgh is Professor of Composite Materials in the Department of Aeronautics within the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. He holds a BSc and PhD, and is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). From 1987 to 2003, Greenhalgh worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE, now QinetiQ) in Farnborough's Composite Structures Section, where he conducted research on polymer composites, publishing over one hundred reports and papers. Trained by fractography pioneer David Purslow, he advanced techniques for identifying crack growth directions and failure modes in compression and delamination. In 2003, he joined Imperial College London as a Reader, progressing to Professor, and now serves as Head of the Composites Centre and Director of the MSc in Composites programme. His career spans over 37 years in composites research, teaching, and administration.