Contact Sam Deddis
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 750111
- Email: S.R.Deddis@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Sam Deddis completed BEng Aircraft Engineering with the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2019. On graduation, he was honoured to receive an award for Best Aircraft Engineering Student from the university's
patron HRH The Princess Royal. Since then, he has worked in aviation maintenance as a Safety & Quality Intern and as a Graduate Engineer with several consultancy firms in the energy industry. Sam returned to study MSc Thermal
Power with Cranfield University in 2020 and commenced a doctoral research programme investigating novel propulsion systems the following year. His breadth of project experience ranges from designing solar power systems for
unmanned aerial vehicles to modelling the corrosion behaviour of environmental barrier coatings on ceramic turbine blades. Sam is currently reading disruptive aerospace propulsion technologies for energy storage and transmission.
Current activities
Feasibility investigation of advanced technologies for energy storage as enablers for disruptive propulsion architectures in collaboration with Airbus.
Clients
Airbus, Lufthansa