Biography
Dr Nick R Atkins joined the University of Cambridge in 2010 as an MHI Lecturer in Turbomachinery. Previously at the University of Sussex, he was acting Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technical Center in Aerothermal Systems. During this period he lead the Sussex work on the NEWAC and MAGPI EU programs working on Secondary (or Internal) Air Systems. Before this (2000-2007) he completed a DPhil and Junior Research Fellowship at the Osney (Southwell) Laboratory at the University of Oxford, working on HP turbine heat transfer. His research interests at the Whittle continue both of these themes and his work uses a combination of numerical and experimental methods. The experimental methods tend to focus on facilities, which are as engine representative as possible, at least in the dimensionless sense.