Dr. Zahra Sharif Khodaei

Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei is a Professor in Structural Health Monitoring in Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London. She is the co-founder of the Structural Integrity and Health Monitoring (SI&HM) group in the department. Her main expertise is in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), both numerical and experimental research in passive (impact detection and classification) and active sensing (damage detection and characterisation) of smart structures. She has developed different SHM systems using piezoelectric, fibre optic and novel printed sensors. She has developed SHM technologies and methodologies for diagnosis and prognosis of composite structures under environmental and operational conditions, within several collaborative projects involving UK industries and academia, EU projects (SHERLOC CleanSky II, €10M) and more recently ESA for space application. She is a member of the steering committee of CleanSky II (h-index = 26) and a Fellow of Royal Aeronautical society and Women’s Engineering Society.