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BEng, MSc, PhD, ACGI, DIC, CMath FIMA, CSci, MRI
Professor of Nonlinear Mechanics
Head of the Nonlinear Structural Stability Research Group
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Home page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.wadee
Biography:
Professor M. Ahmer Wadee obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering in 1994 and his Master of Science degree in Structural Steel Design in 1995 both from Imperial College London, UK. His research career began in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath where he studied for his PhD (completed 1998) under the supervision of Professor Giles Hunt. He specialized in the analytical modelling of nonlinear interactions between local and global buckling modes in sandwich struts that led to buckle pattern localization. Subsequently, he remained in Bath working on a collaborative project in the interdisciplinary Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics, which led to seminal work on the analytical modelling of layered materials and structures, including the modelling of complex instabilities such as kink banding as found in many structures at many different scales. In 1999, Professor Wadee returned to Imperial to take up a lectureship in his former Department. Since then, he has continued to conduct and supervise research in various areas of nonlinear structural instabilities: continuing work on sandwich structures, thin-walled structures along with modelling layered and laminated materials. A particular highlight has been the discovery that thin-walled prismatic members undergoing simultaneous global and local buckling can exhibit so-called “cellular buckling” (or “snaking”), a phenomenon which has also been found in cylindrical shells, twisted rods and kink bands.
Professor Wadee has co-authored well over 120 articles in journals and conferences and has been involved in several funded research projects. He has also been awarded prizes by the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for his research work. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007, then to Reader in Nonlinear Mechanics in 2011 and subsequently to his current position in 2015 where he is now Professor of Nonlinear Mechanics at Imperial leading the Nonlinear Structural Stability research group. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal “Structures” and as the Vice Chairman of the Stability Committee of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute. In 2014, he was listed by the UK Science Council as one of the
100 leading practising scientists in the country.
Selected Publications:
See the link, Prof. M. Ahmer Wadee
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