biographies - Royal Aeronautical Society

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Propulsion Conference
PROGRESS TOWARDS
OPEN ROTOR PROPULSION
TECHNOLOGY
LONDON / 21 NOVEMBER 2012
(1) DR DAMIEN PRAT, OPEN ROTOR PROPULSION
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM LEADER, AIRBUS
OPERATIONS SAS
Damien Prat was born in France in 1969 and started building
model airplanes at 10 years old. He graduated from the
Aeronautical Engineering School Ecole National Superieur
d’Ingenieur en Construction Aeronautique, now merged
under the name ISAE, in 1992. He completed a PhD in Fluid
Mechanics on propulsion system integration for supersonic
Aircrafts. He integrated the Airbus Aerodynamic Department
during 12 years including 8 years leading nacelle design
activities. He moved to R&T to take lead of CROR project at
the end of 2007.
(2) MR KENNETH MACKIE, OPEN ROTOR PROJECT LEAD,
FUTURE PROGRAMMES ENGINEERING, ROLLS-ROYCE
Kenny Mackie works within the Civil Aerospace Future
Programmes Engineering group of Rolls-Royce. He leads
the Open Rotor engine project technical activities and is
responsible for the overall engine concept design. Kenny
joined Rolls-Royce in 2000 and has worked in the field of
preliminary design of future engine concepts for over 10
years. He is a named inventor on a number of patents. Kenny
has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt
University, is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the
Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
(3) DR SÉBASTIEN GUÉRIN, TEAM LEADER NUMERICS
& PREDICTIONS, DLR INSTITUTE OF PROPULSION
TECHNOLOGY
Sébastien Guérin is employed by DLR, the German
Aerospace Centre. Since 2007 he has led the “Prediction
Methods” group at the Engine Acoustics Department of the
Institute of Propulsion Technology, located in Berlin. The
Department has about 25 Members and is led by Prof. Lars
Enghardt.
Sébastien Guérin studied in France where he got his PhD in
October 2001. Before moving to Germany in April 2003,
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he spent 16 months in Southampton at the ISVR. Sébastien
Guérin has dedicated the last 5 years of his work to the
development of fast design-to-noise prediction methods.
(4) DR CESARE HALL, SENIOR LECTURER IN
TURBOMACHINERY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Cesare Hall completed his PhD in 2002 in the field of jet
engine operation in natural wind. After his PhD he worked
with Rolls-Royce plc in the Fan Aerodynamics Group. In
2004 he started work as a Research Associate on the Silent
Aircraft Initiative for the Cambridge-MIT Institute. In 2005
he was appointed as a lecturer in turbomachinery at the
Whittle Laboratory, Cambridge University. He has since been
developing research into the areas of aero-engine design for
reduced emissions, engine-installation interaction and open
rotors.
(5) DR MICHAEL KINGAN, LECTURER, SOUTHAMPTON
UNIVERSITY
Michael Kingan completed PhD degrees in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury.
Following the completion of his PhD thesis he joined the
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the
University of Southampton in 2007 as a Postdoctoral Fellow
and was promoted to lecturer in 2010. He works mainly on
the development of theoretical models for predicting noise
from advanced open rotor engines. He works as a part of
the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in gas turbine
noise at the ISVR and as such, much of his work is conducted
in close collaboration with Rolls-Royce.
(6) DR ANTHONY PARRY, ENGINEERING SPECIALIST -
AERODYNAMICS, ROLLS ROYCE
Anthony Parry studied a BA at Oxford University in 1982
and masters in 1987. Following this, he completed a PhD in
1988 at Leeds University.
In 1982 he joined Rolls-Royce looking at Turbofan & Open
Rotor Noise & Unsteady Aerodynamics, Prediction &

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PROGRESS TOWARDS
OPEN ROTOR PROPULSION
TECHNOLOGY
LONDON / 21 NOVEMBER 2012
Measurement Techniques. In 1988, he became Lecturer in
Industrial Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.
Since leaving the university in 1990, Dr Anthony Parry
returned to Rolls Royce where he has held numerous
positions such as Installation Aerodynamics & Turbofan
Acoustics in 1991-1994 to Lead RR programme on open
rotor noise (via prediction, design & test )which he has held
since 2006.
In addition to this, he is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical
Society and Chartered Engineer. He also has received the
ASME Best Paper Award 1998 for his work on optimisation
of bypass fan outlet guide vanes.
(7) DR DALE VAN ZANTE, SUB-PROJECT ENGINEER
FOR PROPULSION, ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE
AVIATION PROJECT, NASA
Dale Van Zante received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering
from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa in 1997. His
graduate research was done at NASA Glenn Research
Center (then NASA Lewis) in the area of unsteady flows in
high-speed compressors.
He joined the Fan and Compressor Branch at NASA Glenn in
1999 and worked on numerical simulations of highly-loaded,
multi-stage, compressors. His research focuses were tip
clearance flows in transonic compressor rotors and blade
row interactions in highly loaded compressors. In 2003 he
moved to the Acoustics Branch and has been involved in
scale model fan testing and large scale simulations for core
noise modeling. Dale is currently the NASA Open Rotor
Research Team Lead for the wind tunnel testing at Glenn
Research Center and serves as Sub-Project Engineer for
Propulsion in the NASA ERA Project.
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(8) MR ARNE STUERMER, RESEARCH SCIENTIST,
DLR INSTITUTE OF AERODYNAMICS AND FLOW
TECHNOLOGY
Arne Stuermer studied Mechanical Engineering with a
focus on aerospace at the RWTH University of Technology
in Aachen, Germany and graduated with a master’s degree
in 2001. Since 2002 he has been working in the Transport
Aircraft at the DLRs Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow
Technology in Braunschweig, Germany, where he has been
primarily working on the aerodynamic analysis of propeller
and CROR propulsion systems and engine-airframe
integration topics.