Prof. AbdulNaser Sayma

Presentation Title:

How can combined heat and power using small gas turbines contribute to net-zero targets

Biography

Abdulnaser Sayma is a Professor of Energy Engineering, the Head of Department of Engineering at City, University of London, and the Director of the Thermofluid Research Centre. He is a Fellow of the IMechE and RAeS and a member of the Energy Institute.

Professor Sayma obtained a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birzeit University in Palestine, MSc in Energy Technology from Salford University and a PhD from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1994.

He was a research assistant at Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London 1994-1995. In 1996, He joined the Rolls-Royce Vibrations University Technology Centre at Imperial College London till 2005 progressing to a Principal Research Fellow and Royal Academic of Engineering Senior Research Fellow. His work focused on the development of numerical modelling tools for aerodynamics and aeroelasticity in gas turbine engines for aircraft propulsion.

After a short spell as Senior Lecturer in Computational Mechanics at Brunel University, he became a Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics at University of Sussex, 2006-2012 and then joined City University of London in 2013 as a Professor of Energy Engineering.