ProfessorDries Verstraete
Professorial Research Fellow
Faculty of Engineering
- Professorial Research FellowFaculty of Engineering
BIO
Dries is a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering and an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. He is the founder and director of the Sydney Propulsion Lab.
Professor Verstraete received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and his MSc in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He received his PhD from Cranfield University, England.
Dries has 20 years of experience in sustainable propulsion systems for aviation and aircraft design and optimisation, with expertise in electric propulsion, hydrogen, fuel-cell-based hybrid systems and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. He conducts both fundamental and applied computational and experimental research.
SCHOOL
- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
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