Contact Professor Panagiotis Laskaridis
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754643
- Email: P.Laskaridis@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Aeronautical Systems
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
- Engines, Powertrains & Alternative Fuels
- Flight Physics
- Gas Turbines & Propulsion
- Power Systems & Turbines
Background
Head Hybrid Electric Propulsion Group
Director EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation
Panos is leading a team of 15 academics and researchers focusing on the development and integration of green and sustainable aircraft propulsion and power generation technologies. He is also the Director and PI of the newly founded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Net Zero Aviation, a £15 million partnership with Cranfield, Strathclyde and Cardiff Universities that is jointly funded by EPSRC and 40 industrial and research partners. During the next 7.5 years the Centre will train 64 PhD researchers developing the future leaders and disruptive technologies required to decarbonise aviation by 2050. Pano's research activities include electrification of aircraft propulsion systems, aerodynamic integration of novel propulsion architectures including BLI, distributed propulsion and wing tip propellers as well as the life cycle analysis and management of aero and land based gas turbines. Panos has been a module leader for several postgraduate teaching modules and director of multiple continuous professional development short courses. He has also prepared and delivered a number of customised and in-house international short courses for industrial organisations. He is contributing to several technical committees and advisory boards, acting as external reviewer to government and international organisations as well as being editorial member and reviewer for international journals. He has been contributing, managing and leading projects funded by FP7, CS, CS2, Horizon2020, ATI-Innovate UK, EPSRC and industrially funded research projects. Panos has supervised 32 PhD researchers and more than 100 MSc projects. He is working closely with international industrial and research partners including: NASA, Airbus, Safran, BAE Systems, Embraer, Rolls Royce, GKN, Lufthansa Technik, RWE, Boeing, GE-Alstom, BP and others.
Education
Panos holds a BEng Hons Degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering from Coventry University (1999), an MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design from Cranfield University (2000) and a PhD in Performance investigations and systems architectures for the more electric aircraft, from Cranfield University (2005).
Teaching & Student Supervision
Panos has a long experience in the development and delivery of educational and taught programmes. He has been the module leader for several courses on thermodynamics and mechanical integrity of gas turbines. More than 1000 postgraduate students have attended his lectures, more than 500 engineers have attended his continuous development programmes and has supervised more than 100 MSc projects. He has also supervised 4 Masters by Research and 32 Phd researchers - currently supervising 9 PhD researchers.
Journal Editorial Boards and Reviewer
Panos is a member for the following editorial boards:
Guest Editor: MDPI Aerospace Special Issue on Gas Turbines and the Environment: Towards Net Zero Emissions
Guest Co-Editor: IET Electrical Systems in Transportation special issue
Guest Co-Editor: IEEE Electrification Magazine special issue
Guest Co-Editor: MDPI Aerospace special issue "Boundary Layer Ingesting Turbo-Electric Distributed Propulsion Systems-Innovations and Challenges"
Associate Editor, Transportation Emissions, Frontiers in Future Transportation
He is also acting as a reviewer for several journals including: ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Elsevier Journal of Aerospace Science & Technology, Elsevier Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Royal Aeronautical Society The Aeronautical Journal, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Publications & Patents
Panos has published more than 70 international journal and conference papers. He is also the co-inventor of 2 patents with Rolls Royce.
Awards & Honours
IMEchE - Kenneth Harris James Prize for the best paper on an aerospace subject published by the IMEchE in 2013.
Research opportunities
Aircraft Electric Propulsion Technologies for Zero Emission Aircraft PhD
Advanced Aerospace Systems: Novel Electric Actuator for Aerospace Applications with BAE Systems PhD
Advanced Technology Concepts for Hydrogen Fuelled Environmental Friendly Aircraft with GKN - PhD
Advanced Energy Management Strategies for Zero Emission Aircraft PhD
Current activities
Director EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation - The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation is a collaboration with Cardiff and Strathclyde Universities and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. The CDT will be delivered in partnership with industry, training 64 students over a period of 7.5 years and driving research into novel, disruptive solutions that will decarbonise aviation. This is the first Centre of Excellence for Net Zero Aviation Education, Training & Research and will help establish the UK as an international hub for technology, innovation and education for net zero aviation. The £15 million Centre is supported jointly by EPSRC as well as university and industrial partners.
Head of Group - Hybrid Electric Propulsion: The Group focuses on the development and integration of novel, green and sustainable propulsion technologies that include electrification and highly integrated airframe and propulsion architectures.
Research on electrification of aircraft propulsion systems includes electric and hybrid technologies along with the development of integrated solutions that explore the synergies of closely coupling gas turbines with electrical systems and components including batteries, fuel cells, motors, generators, thermal management system, etc. Work focuses on identifying and developing enabling technologies as well as integrating, modelling and assessing architectures and integrated solutions at component, system, aircraft and mission level.
Research on novel configurations and aerodynamic integration focuses on the development and implementation of energy and exergy based methods for the modelling, design space exploration and assessment of novel configurations including BLI and distributed propulsion and wing tip propellers at installation, aircraft and mission level.
Director for Centre for Gas Turbine Diagnostics and Life Cycle Analysis: Leading multi-disciplinary and cross functional teams for the development and delivery of operational solutions used by gas turbine manufacturers, operators and maintenance organisations to manage their engines, powerplants and maintenance procedures. Research includes the development and implementation of gas turbine lifing methods and tools, health monitoring and diagnostics solutions, performance assessment methods, active engine life and degradation control strategies, fleet management and optimisation of maintenance scheduling. Industrial partners include Lufthansa Technik, RWE, Rolls Royce, Boeing, GE, Emirates, BP, Shell, Alstom-GE.
Sample Projects:
NASA Grant: Techno-economic, Environmental and Risk Assessment of N3-X concept, NASA NNX13AI78G
FlyEco - Horizon Europe Project
Sublime: Supporting Understanding of BLI Model Experiment, Clean Sky 2
Futrpint 50: Future Propulsion & Integration towards a Hybrid Electric 50 seat regional aircraft, Horizon 2020
PINES: Powerplant Integration of Novel Engine Systems, Innovate UK/ATI
APROCONE: Advanced Product Concept Analysis Environment, Innovate UK/ATI, Airbus
PIPS: Powerplant Integration with Platform Systems, Innovate UK/ATI
MegaFlight: Innovate UK/ATI, Rolls Royce
Assessment of turbo-electric propulsion architectures for aircraft, EPSRC & Rolls Royce
Industrial Gas Turbine Air System Modelling, RWE
Gas Turbine Hot Section Lifing, Lufthansa Technik
Gas Turbine Advance Diagnostics and Health Monitoring, Lufthansa Technik
BLI Assessment, GKN
Alternative Power Sources, BAE
Continuous Professional Development Programmes:
Panos is the Director for the following CPD short courses:
Mechanical Integrity of Gas Turbines
Gas Turbine Technology for Operations and Maintenance Engineers
Fatigue & Fracture
He has also developed and delivered customised in-house CPD programmes for Airbus, Safran, GE, US Navy, AIAA and Siemens.
Links to short courses:
Gas Turbine Technology for Operations and Maintenance Engineers
Mechanical Integrity of Gas Turbines.
Clients
- NASA
- Airbus SE
- Safran SA (Snecma)
- BAE Systems PLC
- Embraer SA
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
- GKN Ltd
- RWE AG
- Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Boeing Co
- GE Power
- BP PLC
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Spinelli A, Krupa GP, Kipouros T, Laskaridis P & Berseneff B. (2025). Battery pack technological considerations for hybrid-electric regional aircraft feasibility. The Aeronautical Journal, 129(1335)
- Lamprakis I, Sanders DS & Laskaridis P. (2025). Fundamental concepts of boundary-layer ingestion propulsion. Journal of Aircraft, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print)
- Pontika E, Laskaridis P, Nikolaidis T & Koster M. (2024). Hot corrosion damage modeling in aeroengines based on performance and flight mission. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 38(4)
- Montana F, Jacobs W, Pontika E, Laskaridis P, Griffiths M, .... (2024). Economic control of next generation aerospace fleets. Data-Centric Engineering, 5
- Moirou N, Sanders DS & Laskaridis P. (2023). Advancements and prospects of boundary layer ingestion propulsion concepts. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 138(April)
- Lamprakis I, Sanders DS & Laskaridis P. (2023). Energy-based aerodynamic loss and recovery characteristics of adiabatic and heated fuselages. Journal of Aircraft, 60(6)
- Asli M, König P, Sharma D, Pontika E, Huete J, .... (2023). Thermal management challenges in hybrid-electric propulsion aircraft. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 144
- Simmers B, Gerada C, Rajashekara K, Laskaridis P & Seki N. (2023). Special issue on all‐electric and hybrid‐electric flight. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, 13(1)
- Spinelli A, Balaghi Enalou H, Zaghari B, Kipouros T & Laskaridis P. (2022). Application of probabilistic set-based design exploration on the energy management of a hybrid-electric aircraft. Aerospace, 9(3)
- Ansell P, Haran K & Laskaridis P. (2022). Welcome to the Special Issue on Hydrogen-Electric Aircraft Technologies [Guest Editors]. IEEE Electrification Magazine, 10(2)
- Eryilmaz I, Li H, Pachidis V, Laskaridis P, Zhu Z-Q, .... (2021). Performance and operability of an electrically driven propulsor. International Journal of Engine Research, 24(3)
- Gamil AAA, Nikolaidis T, Lelaj I & Laskaridis P. (2020). Assessment of numerical radiation models on the heat transfer of an aero-engine combustion chamber. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 22
- Sanders DS & Laskaridis P. (2020). Full-aircraft energy-based force decomposition applied to boundary layer ingestion. AIAA Journal, 58(10)
- Valencia E, Alulema V, Rodriguez D, Laskaridis P & Roumeliotis I. (2020). Novel fan configuration for distributed propulsion systems with boundary layer ingestion on an hybrid wing body airframe. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 18
- Nikolaidis T, Wang H & Laskaridis P. (2020). Transient modelling and simulation of gas turbine secondary air system. Applied Thermal Engineering, 170
- Cleton B, Anselmi Palma E, Pellegrini A, Pachidis V & Laskaridis P. (2019). Effect of mixing Mach number and mixing efficiency on the preliminary cycle design of mixed high-BPR turbofans. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 10
- Goldberg C, Nalianda D, Laskaridis P & Pilidis P. (2018). Installed performance assessment of an array of distributed propulsors ingesting boundary layer flow. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 140(7)
- Valencia E, Liu C, Nalianda D, Panagiotis L, Gray I, .... (2017). Methodology for the assessment of distributed propulsion configurations with boundary layer ingestion using the discretized miller approach. International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE), 10(3)
- Gad-Briggs A, Halsam A & Laskaridis P. (2017). Effect of change in role of an aircraft on engine life. The Aeronautical Journal, 117(1196)
- Valencia E, Hidalgo V, Nalianda D, Laskaridis P & Singh R. (2016). Discretized Miller approach to assess effects on boundary layer ingestion induced distortion. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 30(1)
- Giannakakis P, Goulos I, Laskaridis P, Pilidis P & Kalfas AI. (2016). Novel Propeller Map Scaling Method. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 32(6)
- Kirner R, Raffaelli L, Rolt A, Laskaridis P, Doulgeris G, .... (2016). An assessment of distributed propulsion: Part B – Advanced propulsion system architectures for blended wing body aircraft configurations. Aerospace Science and Technology, 50
- Valencia EA, Nalianda D, Laskaridis P & Singh R. (2015). Methodology to assess the performance of an aircraft concept with distributed propulsion and boundary layer ingestion using a parametric approach. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 229(4)
- Camilleri W, Anselmi E, Sethi V, Laskaridis P, Rolt A, .... (2015). Performance characteristics and optimisation of a geared intercooled reversed flow core engine. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 229(2)
- Haslam A, Abu A & Laskaridis P. (2015). A method for the assessment of operational severity for a high pressure turbine blade of an aero-engine. Open Engineering, 5(1)
- Kirner R, Raffaelli L, Rolt A, Laskaridis P, Doulgeris G, .... (2015). An assessment of distributed propulsion: Advanced propulsion system architectures for conventional aircraft configurations. Aerospace Science and Technology, 46
- Giannakakis P, Laskaridis P, Nikolaidis T & Kalfas AI. (2015). Toward a Scalable Propeller Performance Map. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 31(4)
- Camilleri W, Anselmi E, Sethi V, Laskaridis P, Grönstedt T, .... (2015). Concept description and assessment of the main features of a geared intercooled reversed flow core engine. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 229(9)
- Abu AO, Eshati S, Laskaridis P & Singh R. (2014). Aero-engine turbine blade life assessment using the Neu/Sehitoglu damage model. International Journal of Fatigue, 61
- Liu C, Ihiabe D, Laskaridis P & Singh R. (2014). A preliminary method to estimate impacts of inlet flow distortion on boundary layer ingesting propulsion system design point performance. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 228(9)
- Igie U, Pilidis P, Fouflias D, Ramsden K & Laskaridis P. (2014). Industrial gas turbine performance: Compressor fouling and on-line washing. Journal of Turbomachinery, 136(10)
- Laskaridis P, Pachidis V & Pilidis P. (2014). Opportunities and challenges for distributed propulsion and boundary layer ingestion. Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 86(6)
- Eshati S, Abu A, Laskaridis P & Khan F. (2013). Influence of water–air ratio on the heat transfer and creep life of a high pressure gas turbine blade. Applied Thermal Engineering, 60(1-2)
- Liu C, Doulgeris G, Laskaridis P & Singh R. (2013). Thermal cycle analysis of turboelectric distributed propulsion system with boundary layer ingestion. Aerospace Science and Technology, 27(1)
- Doulgeris G, Korakianitis T, Avital EJ, Pilidis P & Laskaridis P. (2013). Effect of jet noise reduction on gas turbine engine efficiency. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 227(9)
- Hanumanthan H, Stitt A, Laskaridis P & Singh R. (2012). Severity estimation and effect of operational parameters for civil aircraft jet engines. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 226(12)
- Lallini V, Janikovic J, Pilidis P, Singh R & Laskaridis P. (2012). A Calculation Tool of a Turbine Cooling Air Schedule for General Gas Turbine Simulation Algorithms. Journal of Turbomachinery, 134(4)
- Giannakakis P, Laskaridis P & Pilidis P. (2011). Effects of Off-takes for Aircraft Secondary-Power Systems on Jet Engine Efficiency. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 27(5)
- DOULGERIS G, KIRNER R, LASKARIDIS P, PILIDIS P & KALFAS A. (2011). The Effect of Refueling Stop on Long Haul Air Transport Greenhouse Emissions. Journal of Environment and Engineering, 6(3)
